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.
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.
Absobloominlutly!
ReplyDeleteCaptured it perfectly Olga!
DeleteWow! Not the most intelligent of comments, but it's the sentiment that counts....I hope.
ReplyDeleteWith art J, it's the sentiment feeling for sure...
DeleteIt'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'.
ReplyDeleteYou can't be her no. 1 fan Jo? I though I was! Forget all the blather I say just love it or leave it...
DeleteI couldn't agree more!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lyndell!
DeleteDitto ditto ditto.
ReplyDeleteHear hear!
DeleteYour Thursday posts always hit the button - this one especially - thank you for sharing and making me think as you always do.
ReplyDeleteHi Charlton, glad you enjoy them, I enjoy doing them as they make me think too!
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