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Saturday Apr 21, 2007
Pablo’s Thought
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
Do you have an understanding of what he meant? Was Picasso being merely provocative, or is there a deeper meaning to mine here?
Is the art itself the truth, or an artifact of truth?
Tuesday Apr 03, 2007
I Think I do
Whether someone accepts or rejects any theory of the mind, one must add the divine self to a list of psychological constructs in this inner world where you are host to a myriad of forces that no one can fully explain.
It is, after all, art from the unconscious that flows from a cornucopia of intuitive emotion. If you make art from thinking, then you have to calculate by design.
Monday Feb 19, 2007
Off the Rack
In 1917, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) took a urinal and rotated it ninety degrees from its normal, functional position.
The artist left the piece unembellished except for the inscription ‘R. Mutt 1917’ and titled it: Fountain.
Was this a joke, a prank, or was it art?
Friday Feb 09, 2007
Raison d’etre
Art comes into being from consciousness, which precisely reflects awareness. What better reason can there be for art to exist? As Wassily Kandinsky and other like-minded visionaries have noted: art and art appreciation will transform the world for the better.
There is one raison d’etre, or dharma that we can happily attribute to art for art’s sake: art exists to wake you up from sleeping consciousness, which slips away day by day ‘like tears in the rain’—to reality as it is, which is the awakened consciousness and awareness known as the Buddha.
Saturday Jan 27, 2007
Looking Up
As an artist it is essential to be awed and amazed, to question dogma and authority, and to wonder with a purpose about what is beyond. If not, how will you keep yourself honest?
How will you innovate? If you take things for granted, then this attitude will show up in your work and life; and some form of rejection will always be at your heels. How will you recognize art that is awesome and wondrous, including your own?
When you are feeling down turn your attention upward and outward into the workings of the cosmos—the manifest artwork of the Creator. You can’t know the meaning of faith without having first experienced the awe of some miracle, which is evidence of transcendent beauty in temporal life. This is the nexus where faith first begins.
Until then, it is all hearsay.
