-Stolen
objects in a display case
-Question
-Statement
or just trying to mess with people. Mess
with perception? Does being display make
something art? Or is the art in the
taking, the action? Banksy. Graffiti.
Is the art what is left after the act or the act itself. Disobedience.
Rebellion. Upsetting the status
quo. Would Banksy be as revered if his
art was in a gallery as opposed to on the streets. Would he be as admired if anyone knew his
name. Her name. It. Is
the point the result or the idea.
-Cezanne. Popova.
Braque. The fracturing of
form. The disintegration of reality. Duchamp.
A wheel on a stool, made useless.
Does effort make something art or does meaning. You don’t have to like it, you just have to
think. Does beauty make something art or
does realism become useless in the face of change. Changing ideals. Changing purpose. Changing world.
-Van
Gogh. Monet. Colour or form. Is what we see what is there or is there
something else. Impressionism was
rebellion at one point, and now – art made to shock? Art made to laugh in the face of progress or
to place it on a pedestal? The Untimely
Transmogrification of the Problem. What
problem and what change. Bombarded by
images – is there too much to deal with in this world? Television.
Sexuality. How long ago would
this have been insane. What makes it
acceptable now. In 200 years will this
pointless, passé, quaint? Past. Present.
And future.
-Pablo
Picasso. Can something be at once so
real and so fractured. Can a
person? In one image, reality and
delusion, intangibility. Redundancy or
contrast. Light or dark. Life or death. Free or crucified. Are we alive.
Is art. War or peace. Freedom or slavery. Is ignorance bliss? Are choice and change a blessing or a
curse. Are we doomed to be free, or were
we ever? Is this why art exists? Is art the question or the answer. What is the question? Or is there more than one?
-To be, or
not to be? How can such a question be so
simple? Why is it a question at all?
-Why do we
create? Why do we destroy? Epstein.
The rock drill. What is the point
of war, Machinery or nature?
-Why paint
in black and white when you can have all the bright shades of uncertainty. And why did Van Gogh see what others cannot
in the sky?