The Mind Creative
Pilate had once asked “What is truth?” and had not waited for an
answer. I would refrain from such strange behavior and instead
ask, “What’s art in today’s context?” and then wait for an answer.
I suspect it will be a futile wait.
The readers must excuse my simple mind; one that is riddled with
elementary questions. I have often asked myself as to why would
painters do things that they sometimes do. Is it that they want
an easy way out or is it that they are more worried about the so
called “avant garde” world of art than art itself.
Wassily Kandinsky is credited to having created the first abstract
watercolour and he once remarked: “The more frightening the
world becomes … the more art becomes abstract.” If only he had
been audience to some works that I have seen, I am convinced
that he would have changed his mind and uttered with an
exclamation, “The more abstract the world becomes … the more
art becomes frightening.”
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