Break is over
By Tonietta Walters. Filed in Aesthetics |
Well, no more rest for the wicked. I’ve had enough of a break.
Today marks the creation of the ‘to elaborate’ category. As if all these categories didn’t need to be elaborated.
It may just be one specific task that I’ll have to come up with a specific category name for later.
—The difference between what the art is about and what the art does—
This is the demarcation. This difference between the why and how/what. The subjective experience resides in the what the art is about section. About this no one can tell the artist any different than what is going on in their head, in their own individual experience. The what the art does section is what everyone has been discussing in perpetuity. How does it affect the viewer, what is the function, is it an expression of beauty, what is beauty, is it a form of catharsis for the artist, then what about the viewer?
The why or the what it is about is decided by the artist. This may or may not mesh with how and what. It may be about color, it may be about form, it may be about emotion or about whatever the artist decides. This does not necessarily have to be what the viewer sees in the artwork or what it does even for the artist’s own psychology.
The key to discovering the difference between the subjective and objective to bring the two together does not lie in convincing artists that what the artwork is about is the same as what it does. It lies in attempting to discover why there is a difference created or delineating what the difference is between the two to begin with and determining what dynamic processes eventually bring about their resolution in a way that is properly balanced.
