Been such a busy week
Had a hard time doing much artwork lately. Conference travel, speaking with people, speaking at conferences, seems like my art, at this moment.
I was with a friend at the Metropolitan yesterday, looking at Braque, Gaugin and Cezanne. My friend pointed to a Volliard long, rectangular painting and said…. “the people who this painting was about nutured the art life in Parisat the turn of the century”.
I replied “how do you know that”? She said the information was on the card next to the painting, but it really wasn’t
It turned out she knew something I didn’t and chimed in that artists exist and come to be known through the community and influentials in communities. We agreed and disagreed there but then I asked a killer question.
Where are the communities an artist would join now? What is new and exciting now? We both drew a blank.
Nancy popped back with an answer, that Art, since the 1950’s, especially visual art, lost it’s relevancy because there’s nothing truly interesting or exciting about visual art today.
Other artforms have gained while painting has lost, and it is not clear what it means to be an artist, today.
A sobering thought.
