the second is from the website 'but does it float' curated by folkert & atley, a statement which reads...
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery"
the third from an article about the psychology of why creationism is attractive (via aaron). the article isn't about art at all but provides a quote which fits rather nicely with the question of why people, in general, struggle with contemporary art and poetry:
"According to [University of Michigan psychologist Margaret] Evans and other psychologists, including Deborah Kelemen from Boston University, there’s a very specific cognitive glitch that invades our rationalist thought whenever we’re pondering the subject of life’s origins, something those who do research in this area refer to as “teleo-functional thinking” (reasoning about the functional purpose of an entity or object in question). When scratching our heads over an artifact—with the end product before us, asking ourselves how it came to be—these scientists find that we tend to start off by trying to deduce what it’s meant for."
while this tendency might actually have the potential to make a person study the art piece until they find meaning, combine that tendency with a short attention-span (and the fact that much art evades one specific meaning), and the viewer quickly gives up or disregards the piece rather than investigating it more deeply.
on the headphones: 'part 12' by rhian sheehan, from the album 'standing in silence'.
1 comment:
I really like that quote about "I could have done that... yeah but you didn't". Very very true in so many areas of life!! You have amazing self-control to stop at the $10 profit... I would have kept going until it was all gone.
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