Comments on: Art and Isolation http://artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=art-and-isolation a multi-disciplinary dialog Mon, 07 May 2012 03:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Peter Jones http://artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html/comment-page-2#comment-262541 Peter Jones Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:00:47 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html#comment-262541 Art was once about religion and now it's about art for art's sake? Surely, art is now about consumerism, about fitting in with the consumerist market - and the really clever artists make work that is anti-capitalist, and yet somehow still make money from it. There is no break down of standards, but people from another generation feeling out of place. Art was once about religion and now it’s about art for art’s sake?

Surely, art is now about consumerism, about fitting in with the consumerist market – and the really clever artists make work that is anti-capitalist, and yet somehow still make money from it.

There is no break down of standards, but people from another generation feeling out of place.

]]> By: Zach http://artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html/comment-page-2#comment-200007 Zach Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:36:08 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html#comment-200007 All art is about suffering and isolation. Read Leaves of Grass by Whitman, or the Divine Comedy by Dante, or watch Apocalypse Now, or listen to Misery is the River of the World by Tom Waits. And you'll see. All art is about suffering and isolation. Read Leaves of Grass by Whitman, or the Divine Comedy by Dante, or watch Apocalypse Now, or listen to Misery is the River of the World by Tom Waits. And you’ll see.

]]> By: Robert M. Kay http://artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html/comment-page-2#comment-14622 Robert M. Kay Wed, 02 May 2007 15:27:54 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html#comment-14622 There is isolation and there is isolation. Isolation for the artist who retains the influences of art in his life is not an artist in isolation, but a failed artist, wondering why he's failed. Thinking about what other artists are doing, talking about art on the internet,looking at art in museums and galleries,reading about art in art magazines,looking at art history, looking at one's own art and wondering how to improve it. And last and most important, complaning about the state of art, and trying to reach out to others who also feel isolated. These practices undermine what the artist in isolation is trying to do, and that is, tap into something revolutionary. There is isolation and there is isolation.

Isolation for the artist who retains the influences of art in his life is not an artist in isolation, but a failed artist, wondering why he’s failed.

Thinking about what other artists are doing, talking about art on the internet,looking at art in museums and galleries,reading about art in art magazines,looking at art history, looking at one’s own art and wondering how to improve it. And last and most important, complaning about the state of art, and trying to reach out to others who also feel isolated. These practices undermine what the artist in isolation is trying to do, and that is, tap into something revolutionary.

]]> By: Karl Zipser http://artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html/comment-page-2#comment-7590 Karl Zipser Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:25:03 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html#comment-7590 <em>Have you a painting that comes from the opposite of your “art and isolation” one? How do they differ, aside from how you felt when you were doing them?</em> June, The best example of a painting that is the opposite of the painting in this post is a large collaborative work I made with Hanneke which I will show one of these days. Thanks for the question, it is thought-provoking and raises more interesting questions for me than I can answer at this moment. Have you a painting that comes from the opposite of your “art and isolation” one? How do they differ, aside from how you felt when you were doing them?

June,

The best example of a painting that is the opposite of the painting in this post is a large collaborative work I made with Hanneke which I will show one of these days.

Thanks for the question, it is thought-provoking and raises more interesting questions for me than I can answer at this moment.

]]> By: David http://artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html/comment-page-2#comment-7547 David Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:37:18 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html#comment-7547 It's always not :) It’s always not :)

]]> By: Arthur Whitman http://artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html/comment-page-2#comment-7534 Arthur Whitman Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:18:20 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html#comment-7534 Which is it usually? Which is it usually?

]]> By: David http://artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html/comment-page-2#comment-7528 David Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:21:52 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/02/art-and-isolation.html#comment-7528 <i> Luckily I don’t seem to hang around with celebrities, let along the celebrated of the celebrities.</i> Me either, but if you go to the grocery store you can't avoid them. Every time I go to pick up some bread or toothpaste I learn about their tragic love affairs, their new diets, and their cosmetic surgery (whether I want to know or not). Luckily I don’t seem to hang around with celebrities, let along the celebrated of the celebrities.

Me either, but if you go to the grocery store you can’t avoid them. Every time I go to pick up some bread or toothpaste I learn about their tragic love affairs, their new diets, and their cosmetic surgery (whether I want to know or not).

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