Relevance
Pic by Sahar Z
I think no one feels the struggle for relevance more than the artist. The struggle to find something new to say and say it well. Art isn’t any more an elitist pursuit. It can’t anymore be hidden from the public eye. More and more people want to see and react to what they see. Everyone has Internet, everyone has overactive fingers. More and more people are reading and visiting new places, opening new doors and windows inside their heads. Art, its definitions and dialogues are changing. The artist’s brief now is to create a narrative that has not been attempted earlier. Or if it has been, it is to create a counter-narrative that takes it from where the last artist left.
The Marilyn Monroe’s Last Supper is taken from a Fluxus installation that came to Delhi last month.
I think no one feels the struggle for relevance more than the artist. The struggle to find something new to say and say it well. Art isn’t any more an elitist pursuit. It can’t anymore be hidden from the public eye. More and more people want to see and react to what they see. Everyone has Internet, everyone has overactive fingers. More and more people are reading and visiting new places, opening new doors and windows inside their heads. Art, its definitions and dialogues are changing. The artist’s brief now is to create a narrative that has not been attempted earlier. Or if it has been, it is to create a counter-narrative that takes it from where the last artist left.
The Marilyn Monroe’s Last Supper is taken from a Fluxus installation that came to Delhi last month.
hmmm....nice pic...did u take it?
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. Great commentary too. I reccomend a book called "the World is Flat" that covers some of this topic.
ReplyDeletei'm also into those things. care to give some advice?
ReplyDeleteThe nice thing with this blog is, its very awsome when it comes to there topic.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I love Monroe!!!
ReplyDeleteimaginative...innovative...nice works
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