Variations: Conservations in and Around Abstract Painting By: Mark Bradford, Shoot the Coin, 2013, mixed media on canvas
Art is like porn for dreamers.
So maybe you don’t consider that pile of snow in Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition to be art. Or maybe you don’t even see the value of Andy Warhol’s cans of soup. But it’s exactly the sight of possibility that makes art so spectacular.
Dreamer is actually a very wide reference for crazy. You’d have to be crazy to think that one day those splattered canvases would be worth millions of dollars. You’d have to be crazy to think that a single, suspended boulder would make an extraordinary piece of art. But essentially, you’d have to be crazy to be a visionary. Staying within the lines and playing it safe will help you meet the standards, but to leave a lasting impression, make great art.
Ever since I was a little girl, I loved art. It was so cliche back then: Draw a picture of your house or color in the puppy by numbers. Now, growing up seeing art on a professional scale changes everything. Suddenly, the controversy over what is and is not art lights a fire and everyone seems to have an opinion about it. I understand, not everyone can see the value of conceptual art. It can be radical and frankly it makes me wonder whether or not some of these artists were on hard drug during the process of making their art. Generally, most people can agree that the oil painting of fruit is art or in other words, if it’s framed, it’s art.
However, if art was about the rights and wrongs or the blacks and whites, it would no longer be art. Art is the one of the few things in our society where wide, alternate interpretations matter. Whatever the piece may be, it’s on display for a reason. Clearly, someone saw something in it worth considering, so does that not give the piece some aesthetic value?
Maybe it is the people telling me ‘no' that makes me even more certain that art will always be subjective. Maybe it’s sentiment. Maybe it’s pure stupidity. Whatever it is, art is support to make you feel something. Whether that feeling be good or bad, it is a feeling to say the least.
xx Ella-Kol
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