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Daily Archives: November 6, 2013
NaBloPoMo VI: What is Art?
Art is a line around your thoughts. Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Aargh! Not the What is art? question again! Well, a few years it was posed (again) by (I think) The Guardian Online. I think it was a forum discussing that year’s (as usual, controversial) short list for The Turner Prize. As you can imagine, there were a lot of answers to the question. Some flowery ones which talked about agonies and ecstasies, some philosophical ones (questioning whether there is a painting in the gallery if there’s nobody there to look at it, and so forth). A lot of striking of poses. I decided to have my say and a couple of years later, prowling the Internet for one reason or another, I turned up the web page again and my answer: Continue reading
Posted in Art, Inspiration, spirituality
Tagged Art Reviews, Byzantine art, Charles Johnson, Gustav Klimt, NaBloPoMo, Turner Prize, Vienna Secession
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