Re: art with instructions

[giuseppe_poteet@worldnet.att.net]

In some ways I'm opposed to art with instructions, but consider:

Theo van Doesburg discusses the need to explain what de Stijl was
about--people (in his opinion) didn't have the aesthetic tools to 
appreciate
the abstract art that was bursting upon the scene in the teens/twenties of
the previous century.  Kandinsky's seminal works on art also serve as a 
sort
of primer on such matters.  Of course, now we are all accustomed to
seeing/judging/appreciating abstract art, & we don't need a freakin' manual
to appreciate a Kandinsky.   But I would not be surprised to see an 
artistic
movement arise in the coming days that would involve a different enough way
of seeing that instructions would be helpful.

& in the more general sense, aren't art/music appreciation classes 
basically
instruction manuals for enjoying art?




on 9/23/01 9:06 AM, luca at lucafeed@tin.it wrote:

> Matthias wrote:
>> There is a big gap though, between "anything is ok" and "this just came
> out"
> this is the real problem in improvisation; something which involves 
>taste,
> sense of measure, and to understand the border between the things that 
>are
> having sense for the people who is playing and the ones that can have
> something to say to the ones who listen.
> Sometimes (mostly in its early days) improvisation followed the idea of 
>the
> "perfoming art", very near to the visual/concrete installations.
> This was having a strong cultural sense in the sixties.
> I just visited the Venice's Biennale of contemporary art and I have been
> discussing with my girlfriend (who is a sculptist and more) about the
> sense/use of conceptual arts in our days.
> So many installations did really not come out; just the clear sense of 
>the
> urgence of "making something new" and (sometimes) a few words that were
> trying to give the installation a conceptual reason.
> We agreed that the ones that were emotionally powerful were the ones that
> didn't need anyone read the conceptual notes behind them.
> The concept came out very clear from themself.
> I love abstract art ( I think the way I play is abstract) and I agree 
>with
> Kandisky when he said that the figurative art expresses the image of
> something real on which your memory can apply your remembers and
> past/dreamed emotions; he described abstraction in art saying that it 
>goes
> deeper, forcing people to explore their inside with great humilty while
> facing a representation that has no objective sense.
> luca
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