I will start this entry with a quote from a famous writer named Oscar Wilde.
"An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them."
This means that a piece of art should not reflect the life of the artist, it should be life itself. A piece of work so molded can fascinate many of its beholders.
We are bombarded ever day with 'art' as they may call it. Modern music, books and other forms of art have to do with every day life and usually reflects the artist, whether it be writer, sculptor, composer. We have seen love, joy, pain, anger, sadness, insanity and many other emotions forged into art. But the true masterpieces themselves don't evoke one or two of these feelings. They evoke all of them.
Materialism has become so much a part of our lives, we cannot see the danger or taboo of it. This being the case, it has made its way into our art, and will stay there as long as we do not recognize it. Some would argue that since art should reflect life itself, and since materialism is now a big part of many lives, then 'materialistic' art should not be such a bad thing after all. True, as long as we realize it is such and do not idolize or reward it too greatly, because it can never be a real virtue.
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Hmm... I think art, if not reflecting the artist, is not alive. Then, it's mere...decoration.
ReplyDeleteThe artist reflection gives art its life.
I think that art is art, being it is a reflection of an artist's life, or if it is just a reflection of living things. Art is art because it is created by man- not because it is a reflection of the artist him/herself.
ReplyDeleteI just came across this in a google search. I was looking up Materialism and Art. I am still to this day so surprised to find that people have a complete misunderstanding of what materialism actually is!
ReplyDeleteIn saying this I mean that Materialistic and Materialism are two completely different things.
DeleteMaterialistic art is not okay, it promotes a false sense of what the artists actually put time into said "piece". Materlism in modern society strives off consumerism which implements consumeristic ideals based upon what is hip in the sense of art that categorizes the subjective expirence one is experiencing. Art that resonates energy can be proppeled, across the spectrum of our optical lenses .. everywhere from age, race, ethnicity, mind set. Art is ideal when consumerism is subtactrd.
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