Digital BW, The Print

I completely agree with Todd on this one.  

I feel the art is in the creation, not the exhibition, not the critique, not the write-up in a journal or gallery brochure or museum catalog.  The art is in that moment (sometimes a very protracted moment) when the artist is creating something.  

The result of that creative energy...what we see as "art" or a work of art is a sharing and extension of the concept of the artist.  The artist may or may not care at that point....whether we "get" the point.  

Refreshing Todd. 

Steadman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Todd Flashner 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: ART and LIFE




  > Art is worth
  > nothing, if it doesn't provoke communication between the viewer and the work
  > - at a minimum. If the art stimulates discussion and interaction among
  > viewers and between artists and viewers, so much the better.
  > Art is not always beautiful, but it is nothing if not seen.

  So a person who "creates" work purely for their own enjoyment, for the love
  of the act rather than the result, is not an artist, and their creations are
  not art until they are seen?

  I realize this is analogous to whether a tree makes as sound when it
  falls....and the sound of one hand clapping....But art is a Zen thing. It is
  a function of the mindset of the artist in the moment(s) of creation.

  Art isn't in the object that we see, it's in the process that creates it.
  The power it may or may not have over us is in our interpretation of it, but
  art lives in creation. No viewer is required.

  Todd


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