It's not very simple or possible for me to say what represents 'new art'. I've pondered and entertained the idea for a week now with the conclusion that art just seems to be old and new at every moment of history, the present, and the future. There's always a reference to old, hope for new, hope for a better, fascination with the worst, obsession with darkness and distortion, preaching the 'gospel' of the next mode of salvation. The beauty of art is that there is always a rebirth of similar intentions, aesthetics, and so on and so forth.
Pin me down! Make me tell you something?...
Immediate Response:
1.Gothic portraits of fantasy
2. Jeff Coons (Egotistical Art)
3. Stuckism (New to me)
http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html#manifest
Charles Thompson
Seth Maguire Back from India
Charles Thompson
4. "Borrowed Commercial Photography"
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/newphotography/
I think you got some of them right on. The point of this is to have you connect with what happens when you see art...what makes you say "ooohhh that is fresh"?.
ReplyDeleteAlthough you may not like being pinned down - I am digging your interpretation and analyses.
There does also seem to be art that is new and old in the same moment. I'm going to ponder that because yes, yes I think that is so true.
I understand what you're getting at.
ReplyDeleteRebirth I think is important. It brings back ideas and opinions about things that may not have been resolved? Or interpreted in a different way. It's almost a challenge too. "How can IIIII say this and still get the same point across?"
The re-visitation of things just proves that they are worth being seen again or talked about. Still valid.
Rebirth is always happening. Turns out, art is a woman. And she wont stop birthing the same baby. (eww...) The first two I totally agree with. Well, all of them, but the first two are two trends that I was thinking about as well.
ReplyDeleteThey remind me of Juxtapoz the art magazine and commercialism.. that Koons guy, that is.
Have you seen FecalFace.com? It's pretty good, I like it a whole lot better than Juxtapoz, and it's similar in being "new new new" all the time, but it's got a whole lot different aesthetic than Juxtapoz does. Hell to the Yes.