okay so i have just attended a talk by prof T.K Sabapathy, which led me to think of some questions and im gonna post them here, in hope that someday i will be able to answer them and if anyone who is reading this has something to say or knows the answer to any of the questions, feel free to leave a comment.
okay im so tired right now. sigh
my thoughts are all raw, so its like grammatically not correct please dont mind.
1.so firstly, mr lim k.b said that what we are doing now is not art. if you agree, theres nothing much to argue about but if you disagree and say that art is free, so why are we kept in a boundary? why are we judged and graded? doesn't it defeat the purpose of 'art' itself which is to express yourself. so if you are confined to a certain set of thinking, is it still art? still say this is art? well , but art is free. so what we are doing now is just art education, education on art, but not art itself. however, if you still insist that this is art, then what is the real meaning of 'art'?
2. our interpretations are not ours, but rather it is someone else's interpretation but we build our interpretation on it. so because we have some background knowledge of and artwork, our personal interpretations are all influenced, subconsciously influenced, by these background knowledge and who is to say that what we are doing now (in general and to art) is the right thing? what is the boundaries for right/good? what are the boundaries for art? is there even a boundary for art? this brings me back to the question: what is art actually?
3.art is created with a purpose. then can we create art without a purpose? can art be accidental?
4. no art stands alone. what are the boundaries then? is there even a boundary for art?
5.have to be socially responsible -> make the world a better place -> what do you define as good? one man's lost is another man's gain.
6. can art be judged? my interpretation is different from yours, but can you force an interpretation on me? i choose to take path A, but you say path B is better, but i just want to take path A. is it not right?
7.what is so great about mona lisa? is it because of the artist? the skill? why is da vinci's skill considered the best then? who is to say that? also, who is to say that a certain art is very good. the curators? the museum directors? i can say that matisse's art is the best, but you argue that picasso's art is the best. so who is to decide all these things? who is to decide that what we are learning now is actually the 'right' thing to do? since our own interpretation of things, are not actually ours. who knows, we may all be sleeping and this is a dream. you know inception? someone puts a thought or a mindset in your head. and you are the 'beginning of all things' with this mindset, you interpret something, and the next person interprets the same thing after hearing your initial opinion and builds on it. i dare you to say that whatever you are thinking now is purely yours and you are not influenced by some other things. its just that this is subconsciously done. so right now, my thoughts are influenced by many things, many questions, my doubts regarding certain object. there will always be a connection between one thing and another thing.
8.art is such an interesting and complicated thing. (not knowledge because that is not what art is) so what is art then? is there a distinct definition?
oh and finally, what is the diff between modern and contemporary art?????is there a distinct difference?
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