Comments on: Meaning in art http://artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meaning-in-art a multi-disciplinary dialog Mon, 07 May 2012 03:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Sunil Gangadharan http://artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-15445 Sunil Gangadharan Mon, 07 May 2007 15:52:46 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html#comment-15445 Richard, You do have a penchant for statements. I rephrased your thoughts above for my clarity here... "Art without meaning is artwork that either serves as a demonstration of technique or as a decoration piece." Comments from the rest... Richard,
You do have a penchant for statements. I rephrased your thoughts above for my clarity here…

“Art without meaning is artwork that either serves as a demonstration of technique or as a decoration piece.”

Comments from the rest…

]]> By: Sunil Gangadharan http://artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-15444 Sunil Gangadharan Mon, 07 May 2007 15:51:44 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html#comment-15444 Steve, Yes, you are right - that seems like a very NY centric article. I think it is still indicative of the boarder issues surrounding the art world in general using specific episodes gleaned out of this individual’s account of NY galleries... I am glad you find resonance in that article. Steve,
Yes, you are right – that seems like a very NY centric article. I think it is still indicative of the boarder issues surrounding the art world in general using specific episodes gleaned out of this individual’s account of NY galleries… I am glad you find resonance in that article.

]]> By: Sunil Gangadharan http://artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-15443 Sunil Gangadharan Mon, 07 May 2007 15:51:15 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html#comment-15443 Hi Jay, Thanks for the eloquent thoughts as regards the illustrations that I had highlighted earlier. Though I did not mean them to be anything other than play with color, your description lends it some meaning. All I can say is beauty is in the eyes of the viewer... Thank you, Sunil Hi Jay,
Thanks for the eloquent thoughts as regards the illustrations that I had highlighted earlier. Though I did not mean them to be anything other than play with color, your description lends it some meaning. All I can say is beauty is in the eyes of the viewer…
Thank you,
Sunil

]]> By: June http://artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-15349 June Sun, 06 May 2007 22:20:33 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html#comment-15349 Richard, you are right. Something about your wording made me jump to envisioning the viewer, the specator, looking at art-in-general ("What is art without meaning?). But that is a very peculiar point of view given that you specifically metamorphize the thinker as being intimately involved in the action ("anonymous sex? Fun at best, but ultimately empty?"). Whatever was in my head was clearly akilter. Thanks for the correction. Richard, you are right. Something about your wording made me jump to envisioning the viewer, the specator, looking at art-in-general (“What is art without meaning?).

But that is a very peculiar point of view given that you specifically metamorphize the thinker as being intimately involved in the action (“anonymous sex? Fun at best, but ultimately empty?”).

Whatever was in my head was clearly akilter. Thanks for the correction.

]]> By: birgit http://artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-15337 birgit Sun, 06 May 2007 20:21:17 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html#comment-15337 Bob, I have been browsing following your links. It is all so new to me. I am struck by all that realism I am encountering today - your paintings, the photos on Richard's post, and an article about a realist painter in one of Columbia magazines that I read this morning (cannot find the link here at work). From bo’s site: <blockquote>Interestingly, the realist painter who is painting the ‘real’ world, is perhaps more in touch with the inner world than the conceptualist who is addressing issues of the intellect, the outer world.</blockquote> Is realism rearing its head? Bob,

I have been browsing following your links. It is all so new to me.

I am struck by all that realism I am encountering today – your paintings, the photos on Richard’s post, and an article about a realist painter in one of Columbia magazines that I read this morning (cannot find the link here at work).

From bo’s site:

Interestingly, the realist painter who is painting the ‘real’ world, is perhaps more in touch with the inner world than the conceptualist who is addressing issues of the intellect, the outer world.

Is realism rearing its head?

]]> By: Richard Rothstein http://artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-15322 Richard Rothstein Sun, 06 May 2007 18:12:55 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html#comment-15322 June, I'm not clear on what you're asking. I wasn't at all speaking from the viewer's point of view but rather from the artist's point of view. For me, I see no reason and no merit in producing art that lacks meaning or an at least an attempt at meaning. Otherwise, it's purely technique or decoration. June, I’m not clear on what you’re asking. I wasn’t at all speaking from the viewer’s point of view but rather from the artist’s point of view. For me, I see no reason and no merit in producing art that lacks meaning or an at least an attempt at meaning. Otherwise, it’s purely technique or decoration.

]]> By: Bob http://artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html/comment-page-1#comment-15319 Bob Sun, 06 May 2007 17:37:47 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/05/meaning-in-art.html#comment-15319 I have a discussion on my blog of Suzi Gablik's book, The Reenchantment of Art, that talks about the lack of meaning in art and how to recapture meaning in modern art (http://artblogbybob.blogspot.com/2007/05/reenchanting.html). --Bob (ArtBlogByBob.blogspot.com) I have a discussion on my blog of Suzi Gablik’s book, The Reenchantment of Art, that talks about the lack of meaning in art and how to recapture meaning in modern art (http://artblogbybob.blogspot.com/2007/05/reenchanting.html).

–Bob (ArtBlogByBob.blogspot.com)

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