Just because there is a lot of “art” out there, it doesn’t mean Art is on the rise. I would consider advertising to be anti-art. It can’t be art if it’s trying to sell something. Ultimately Art needs to be selfless, to enrich the spirit and expand the soul. Not to put money into the shareholder’s pocket.
No, we call advertising commercial art. I thought of art and marketing as two distinct things, but some design companies, mainly 21 Entertainment, has blurred that line.
Art will always be there, it just depends on what we do with it, same as anything else. It’s definitely not in decline, but evolving. There is a level of openess, maybe just in my area? that has never been seen before. Decline? I think it’s a new Golden Age.
Look, first you have to realize that not all art isn’t always pretty. It’s true, there aren’t many people who go around and paint landscapes anymore, but that doesn’t mean that art’s declining. Art is all around you if you stop and look.
I think that the people who point to the deluge of imagery and sound that we all experience in modern society have a point. On the other hand, are we missing the point of art as process?
Certainly, it seems fewer of us are engaging less often in the artist process of discovery. Art serves many purposes, but perhaps the highest is the elightenment one receives by creating it.
I would like everyone, really everyone, to have a lot more opportunities to be “artistic”.
Art movements have waxed and waned .. I think that art has been declining for a while, and there is likely to be a turn around. I think that there is a healthy decline in mass-media art, but I don’t think that a local-art phenomenon has replaced it yet.
Philosophically, I think a decline in reading and critical thinking has help effect a decline in art as a movement, and an “artist” has become any public personality who wants to retain a certain amount of perceived creative flexibility. It’s a title that has cache, but I think it’s absurd how actors, musicians, and models call themselves “artists”, as if that means that they have some sort of transcendent creative genius.
What has declined has been the power of art to communicate to others beyond the art “religion.” Having dismissed how art is made or looks (disparaged as "retinal’), and focusing on sociological aspects whose worth is not objective, art has become one whim after another. In trying to avoid the “ivory tower” of good taste and elitism, the art establishment has created a mysterious religion understood only by high priests who speak a language of obfuscation, and a body of work more laughable and preachy than moving.
“Art” is not declining. I don’t think art is as esteemed as it might’ve been back in the old days, so perhaps the amount of respect one gives to an ‘artist’ is less than it might’ve been years ago, but Art itself is not declining.
I agree with most people that art is moving in entirely new directions than what most people might’ve been taught in an art history class. It’s not just paintings and sculptures done to perfection; it’s also the comic art, graphic and commercial design, in fashion and the mediums of television and film.
I think art is in ‘flux’ right now, experimenting in new places and with new ideas. The only thing that is in decline, at least hopefully, is elitist beliefs that one art form or style is better than another, and more recognition that art is everywhere and a continuing influence on our lives.
I believe that 2D and 3D mixed media will be the next big thing. I know a lot of artists who are branching out their knowledge of materials and processes. I recently talked to an artist who was “painting” with fused glass. I expect to see some creative mixes of glass, metal, plastic, cement and other materials as artists look for new modes of expression. A lot of industrial tools and material have become more widely available at an affordable price. Another thing I’ve been seeing is gatherings as art that combine music, dance, and costume where the people become a performance art exhibit.
Psychopath Sentience The left are right, The right are wrong; The good are bad, The bad are strong. The weak die off, The strong live on; The strong are left, The good are gone.
Art has, in a historic perspective, predominantly been the realm of the elite – be it religious or secular. The idea that art has a direction or another purpose more important than being an icon or luxury only exists since the 19th century when the idea of what sort of person an artist is matures (the seeds of this process were sown with the enlightenment in the 18th century). the artist becoming an autonomous genius with his own idea’s about the objective of art. That’s when art starts broadening out…That’s what we’re taught in art history education anyway.
In my opinion, art is not declining but seems to decline because it is not what we tend to think of when we think about art. We will have to get used to the idea that art, whatever it is, is changing and taking new courses which on one hand seem to lower the standards of what art is and who artists are (you know how it sometimes seems you can label any old rubbish as art, as long as you put up a good story about it) but on the other hand open up new and unexplored realms for the artist to try out. So in my opinion art is not declining, but changing and we just hace to see which way it is going
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dennis ilic on February 4, 2008, 2:19 PM
Just because there is a lot of “art” out there, it doesn’t mean Art is on the rise. I would consider advertising to be anti-art. It can’t be art if it’s trying to sell something. Ultimately Art needs to be selfless, to enrich the spirit and expand the soul. Not to put money into the shareholder’s pocket.
Robert Brown on February 23, 2008, 9:21 AM
No, we call advertising commercial art. I thought of art and marketing as two distinct things, but some design companies, mainly 21 Entertainment, has blurred that line.
Art will always be there, it just depends on what we do with it, same as anything else. It’s definitely not in decline, but evolving. There is a level of openess, maybe just in my area? that has never been seen before. Decline? I think it’s a new Golden Age.
Tanya Colon on March 4, 2008, 12:26 PM
Look, first you have to realize that not all art isn’t always pretty. It’s true, there aren’t many people who go around and paint landscapes anymore, but that doesn’t mean that art’s declining. Art is all around you if you stop and look.
Steve Ocean on March 6, 2008, 7:36 PM
I think that the people who point to the deluge of imagery and sound that we all experience in modern society have a point. On the other hand, are we missing the point of art as process?
Certainly, it seems fewer of us are engaging less often in the artist process of discovery. Art serves many purposes, but perhaps the highest is the elightenment one receives by creating it.
I would like everyone, really everyone, to have a lot more opportunities to be “artistic”.
Eamon Dowling on March 6, 2008, 8:20 PM
Art movements have waxed and waned .. I think that art has been declining for a while, and there is likely to be a turn around. I think that there is a healthy decline in mass-media art, but I don’t think that a local-art phenomenon has replaced it yet.
Philosophically, I think a decline in reading and critical thinking has help effect a decline in art as a movement, and an “artist” has become any public personality who wants to retain a certain amount of perceived creative flexibility. It’s a title that has cache, but I think it’s absurd how actors, musicians, and models call themselves “artists”, as if that means that they have some sort of transcendent creative genius.
Robert Stanley on March 7, 2008, 12:43 AM
What has declined has been the power of art to communicate to others beyond the art “religion.” Having dismissed how art is made or looks (disparaged as "retinal’), and focusing on sociological aspects whose worth is not objective, art has become one whim after another.In trying to avoid the “ivory tower” of good taste and elitism, the art establishment has created a mysterious religion understood only by high priests who speak a language of obfuscation, and a body of work more laughable and preachy than moving.
Cathy Munoz on March 11, 2008, 5:32 PM
“Art” is not declining. I don’t think art is as esteemed as it might’ve been back in the old days, so perhaps the amount of respect one gives to an ‘artist’ is less than it might’ve been years ago, but Art itself is not declining.
I agree with most people that art is moving in entirely new directions than what most people might’ve been taught in an art history class. It’s not just paintings and sculptures done to perfection; it’s also the comic art, graphic and commercial design, in fashion and the mediums of television and film.
I think art is in ‘flux’ right now, experimenting in new places and with new ideas. The only thing that is in decline, at least hopefully, is elitist beliefs that one art form or style is better than another, and more recognition that art is everywhere and a continuing influence on our lives.
E. Ben on March 11, 2008, 10:55 PM
I believe that 2D and 3D mixed media will be the next big thing. I know a lot of artists who are branching out their knowledge of materials and processes. I recently talked to an artist who was “painting” with fused glass. I expect to see some creative mixes of glass, metal, plastic, cement and other materials as artists look for new modes of expression. A lot of industrial tools and material have become more widely available at an affordable price. Another thing I’ve been seeing is gatherings as art that combine music, dance, and costume where the people become a performance art exhibit.
Bronagh Lawson on March 26, 2008, 3:41 PM
art has always and will always exist because it is a desire of the human soul to create in order to try and move thought forward.
Jordon Roy Gowans on March 27, 2008, 3:11 PM
Psychopath Sentience
The left are right,
The right are wrong;
The good are bad,
The bad are strong.
The weak die off,
The strong live on;
The strong are left,
The good are gone.
Mark Strutt on August 31, 2008, 10:48 PM
To understand art you have to go back to the stART
Benjamin Leo Bart de Groot on October 19, 2008, 9:50 AM
Art has, in a historic perspective, predominantly been the realm of the elite – be it religious or secular. The idea that art has a direction or another purpose more important than being an icon or luxury only exists since the 19th century when the idea of what sort of person an artist is matures (the seeds of this process were sown with the enlightenment in the 18th century). the artist becoming an autonomous genius with his own idea’s about the objective of art. That’s when art starts broadening out…That’s what we’re taught in art history education anyway.
In my opinion, art is not declining but seems to decline because it is not what we tend to think of when we think about art. We will have to get used to the idea that art, whatever it is, is changing and taking new courses which on one hand seem to lower the standards of what art is and who artists are (you know how it sometimes seems you can label any old rubbish as art, as long as you put up a good story about it) but on the other hand open up new and unexplored realms for the artist to try out. So in my opinion art is not declining, but changing and we just hace to see which way it is going
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