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Date of upload: Sep 8, 2016 ^^
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I've been really getting into avant garde and various other forms of modern art lately, and the thing I love about it is that, whether or not you like the art itself, it's always an experience unlike any other. Whatever I'm seeing or hearing is the only thing like it in the world. I'm also starting to appreciate this idea that part of the art and the experience of it is the individual's interpretation. Art can and should evoke feelings, but it's not the same as, say, entertainment, which almost exclusively tries to evoke some kind of deliberate catharsis. Even when non-entertainment art is meant to tell you, even convince you of, one thing and one thing only, what it MEANS is and should be different to everyone. It tells them more about themselves that it does the art or the person who made it. What you take from it is informed almost entirely what you bring to it with your own thoughts, feelings and experiences ("the love you take is equal to the love you make" etc.).
As such, I don't think "uncomfortable" was the right word to end this video on. Art should definitely make you think about things, about your own feelings, your feelings about the world around you and of your place in it, and that can look like anything: it can be discomfort, but it can also be enlightenment, catharsis, politics, values, humanity, humility, joy, sadness, anger, or something you can't even put into words, but it'll be something you wouldn't have thought about until you saw the art. Art is meant to make you think about things, but not what to think OF them. We have enough things in the world telling us what to think.
The idea that it should only make you uncomfortable, to me, is not only too negative but also dismisses the thing that makes art great in the first place, that whatever it's about, what it means is what it means to you and you alone.
But of course, that's all just one person's interpretation.
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This is why i love dada artists
What is dada? the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. The art of the movement spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture. Dadaist artists expressed their discontent toward violence, war, and nationalism, and maintained political affinities with the radical far-left.
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nice to see and read the comments below.....for some people begun to quite understand performance art and art in general.... especially to where are is right now and where it is leading to in future......... performance art for me like any other medium of art is a sort of like mystical and unearthly manner of communicating through codes, spaces, or through total interaction or giving an idea through a secret language or slamming it right on the face for people to know...... art now is more about questioning and experimenting our emotions, comfortability, security as person, our ideals and beliefs, and our very being of rational thinkers who loves to ask and question our world and wonder of the beauty around us........................ ................ hope more people will try to do art even just one time in their life...... study history of art, appreciate and learn from masters of the past and present, learn some traditions and rules..... but after knowing and immersing in the art of yesterday and today and after reflecting and appreciating the very art itself of human development over time in history, is the time to ask for yourself what art is, to begin questioning your own existence and experiences, experimenting your resources, and touching your emotions, to create your own art a bit different from those of today and yesterday, and to break all the rules and traditions you already knew from studying.....but do it for art and experimentation and not to offend and intentionally nonsense or unconscious thinking of doing art....but after all art is generally accepted as subjective..so who knows what art really is....for it's impulse, spontaneous, like a snap or a blink....ever changing, ever asking, ever experimenting, ever making us feel and experience a bit of freedom under our own control and capacity...but it has reason...it has something asking for..or something experiencing for...maybe a still subject of a painting...or the subject of emotion and interactive concept like in performance art... :) just my opinions....and just sharing. peace.
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@katehavlik5409
7 years ago
"Art should not be separate from life, but an action within life, with all of the accidents and chaos and occasional beauty that that entails". YES YES YES YES.
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