Friday, January 28, 2011

Every moment is art

Joseph Beuys
The idea of Fluxus is that anything could be art and the field of art is a melting pot. I think Joseph Beuys is an epitome among all the artists like that. He takes every single moment/event in life as pieces of art, which could be a little on edge to me. I personally agree that every moment in life could be art. I call it the art of life. I think we should constantly keep records of any events happened in life, in other words, I also think people who write diary are all artist. Bloggers are like sculptors, sculptors make things out of life, and bloggers sculpt every moment in life into their blogs. That explained how I agree with Joseph on the subject that life is art. However, I am not fond of his works of fat. I just don't think it's worth to be exhibited in a museum because it's just unfair for lots of young artists out there who devoted their perseverance and time into their works and still could not get them recognized and on display in a museum.

About my project. We are going to build filming dolly. The song is done and we are looking forward to directing and making it.

5 comments:

  1. It's interesting to think of writing journals and blogs as being an art form - like a different sort of poetry or story-writing. Life could be art of a kind, and it's intriguing to consider that even the littlest things people do could have some artistic elements to them. Perhaps Beuys' work does have its own place in museums, but I agree, many young artists (and older ones too) do remain unfairly unrecognized. Perhaps modern media such as blogs and the like will partially help to solve that problem.

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  2. Well I'd like to agree with you that it is unfair to so many artists who want their work seen, and he has museum that shows off fat. At the same time, its interesting to see how many people actually go to these exhibits and are amazed, actually feeling like it is art.

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  3. I'm not sure that I agree that it's unfair for Beuys to be exhibited in a place such as the Guggenheim. I feel that through either social networks or the gallery system is the best way for movements within the art world to gain notoriety. I'm not sure if I believe that everything Beuys did was art, but I feel that his shows help the viewer believe that his objects are art.

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  4. I think just about everything we do has something of a creative process to it, meaning we have to make creative decisions that ultimately lead to a certain outcome. This process is the same with art making. But while there is an art to everything that we do, does that make everything that we do art? In a broader sense yes, but this is simply because 'art' is such a vague term. Maybe art is a more apt term to describe life in general, and we should really be saying 'fine arts' more often.

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  5. You point out the relevance of documentation and imply that the documentation or archive becomes itself a form of art. Makes us wonder how all the blogs out there will one day form a depository of human thought. About the fat, Beuys was interested in how the fat would continue to change making the work never finished. Not sure Beuys usurps gallery space from young artists so much these days. The Guggie show was in 1979!

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