Thursday, December 5, 2013

Thursday Thoughts...

It’s not about how it looks, it’s about how you feel about it. 

Rosalie Gascoigne

In the end, I think this relatively short sentence sums art up quite well!  Fortunately I don't study Capital A ART or participate in any of the conversations, debates or critiques of art that say what art is or isn't the definitional woes of art v craft v anything else. When post-modern is whatever it is etc.

I have almost come to the view that defining art is impossible; what is one person's art is another person's garbage so it seems.

I like how Rosalie cut through the definitional stuff - saying in a way - not how it looks, nor what it is; but rather how it makes you feel. For fans of The Castle "it's the vibe of the thing". All sorts of art can move you - yet much 'official' art leaves me stone-cold.  My responses to art are what makes a piece fabulous art  - for me.

I wept at Michelangelo's Pieta in the Vatican when I first saw it; sat in awe in a room surrounded by Rosalie's assemblages; was silenced by Monet's Waterlily room at L'Orangerie in Paris and have walked in and out of some famous art galleries without feeling a thing.

Its a very personal thing, and there is nothing like the moment when a piece moves you; and when your work touches somebody else...


One of the curved walls of Monet's Waterlilies at L'Orangerie…

Merci M. Monet; a century or so later your work still moves me.

12 comments:

  1. Wow! Not the most intelligent of comments, but it's the sentiment that counts....I hope.

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    1. With art J, it's the sentiment feeling for sure...

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  2. It's a debate that goes on, and on, ad infinitum. I'm Rosalie's NO.1 fan...she's testament to the fact that 'you are never too old'.

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    1. You can't be her no. 1 fan Jo? I though I was! Forget all the blather I say just love it or leave it...

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  3. Your Thursday posts always hit the button - this one especially - thank you for sharing and making me think as you always do.

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    1. Hi Charlton, glad you enjoy them, I enjoy doing them as they make me think too!

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