Art is arbitrary!
@ six this was decided by a context of messages.
The Mona Lisa is not always art!
There is a plane that is connected to another planeà These two planes cannot be separated from each other.
On one side lies the content that makes up the objects of art. On the other side lie the concepts that make ups what can be art. When in history these two sides have matched upà art was born.
The object did not exist before the concept, or the concept before the object!
No definition of art, that is no connection between an object and a concept is more artistic than another.
But ART as in the art of capital letters MUST challenge and if it doesn’t, if it sits idly by and lets you absorb it for the price of nothingà it is not artà no matter the form.
Does this make sense to you? No? then spelled out it is
(Spelled out) A painting by nature a painting is not by nature art!
Deconstruct this Saussure, Post C
-Huysmans
Categories: Artistic Discussion · Artwork · Literature
Tagged: arbitrary, art, Artistic Discussion, Constructionist, Context, Deconstruction, Huysmans, Manifesto, Message, Mona Lisa, Post, Saussure, what is art.
I have to agree with Jorge Luis Borges who so eloquently defended Menard’s Quixote. As Borges rights himself, “Cervantes’ text and Menard’s are verbally identical, but the second is almost infinitely richer” (Borges 1938). As I just mentioned in introducing this wonderfully unique Quixote, there is something far more incredible about the text written in the 20th century. After all it would almost appear as if literature was demanding such a text at the time of Cervantes where as today that demand seems to have shifted. That shift has made it that much more impressive for one such as Menard to go against the grain in producing this unbelievably unique work of art.
This can be viewed more visually with the work of one Marcel Duchamp who took it upon himself to create Fountain 1917 in 1964. This example of sculptural genius proved far more ambiguous for its time than the original of 1917. An even better example of the same author is his famous LHOOQ. Which portrayed in much more eloquence the Mona Lisa than has ever been seen before.
It just goes to show that art is not concrete; at best it is transitory and unstable.
The Comparative Blogging Foundation has arisen to defend the instability and preserve chaos.
-Huysmans
Categories: Comparative Blogging Foundation Posts · Literature
Tagged: 6 blogging points if you click this, Cervantes, Comparative Blogging Foundation, Duchamp, Fountain 1917, Jorge Luis Borges, LHOOQ, Mona Lisa, Pierre Menard, Quixote
