winkash

Often majestic works of art are overshadowed by a lack of consistency between those unnecessary social vindications some of their creators feel the need to attribute to them -thus causing their vision of them seem superior through their artistry-, and their personal lives, which there is no need to know to understand that, setting aside colourful connotations, are ordinary as anybody’s life, with all the same miseries and failures, perhaps plus or minus one or two, that they only find convenient when they want to be considered just human beings, that is, when they are severely criticised for making erroneous connections.

The 20th century’s violence has inspired indignant young artists, and soon this same system that caused them suffering and they deplored, fed their children and bought them interesting power positions and what is more important, helped them further their art. Thus, the marriage of art to social conscience has proved to be successful, and in some cases artists’ success has proved to be a source of guilt and embarrassment, up to a point that many felt compelled to explain why they had done this or that twenty years ago.

I think today all audiences are rather of the idea that artists that for personal reasons genuinely feel the need to express their concern about social injustice through their art are not better people just because they do that, rather they are perhaps expressing the feel of many others who aren’t able to express themselves. On the other hand, striking a balance between a truthful expression and melodrama must be utterly difficult, otherwise there would not be as many artists exaggerating their roles in society as there are today, choking the media, as if their art per se weren’t enough.

This is the point of view of an outsider, whose freedom lies in coming and leaving as he pleases, whose delight of watching situations from afar leaves him little to desire from a world encompassed of many universes, between which information and privacy seem to be falling bridges’ pillars.

No examples provided, readers use their imagination.

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Stagnant ponds are part of the universe, but they can't reflect it.

The Backward OX

Baron

Art has been used throughout history to convey messages, somtimes revolutionary and sometimes just state propaganda. A few painters are known to have put secret references in their pictures and the bardic tradition shows the use of poems by wandering minstrels to veil arcane mysteries.

Attitudes in society during the 1960s and 1970s were largely influenced by music and the arts, which became a vehicle that broke through taboos and established new tolerances.

The aftermath of that is the current state where an anarchic lack of values in art predominates and any form of expression is considered art. Still, it's generally those who have learned the rules first who achieve most from breaking them.

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winkash

Whose rules are those?, , , , (now please open the smilie list) King, Queen, Geek, Clown, Pirate, Santa or Alien's? Or someone else's?

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"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one." Marquis de Sade
Stagnant ponds are part of the universe, but they can't reflect it.