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Why Many People Don't Understand Art

From the description of the lede essay in the latest New York Review of Books:

Brice Marden established his reputation in the mid-1960s as a painter of severe monochromatic rectangles in a medium composed of beeswax, turpentine, and oil paint applied with a brush and then smoothed with a spatula and knife.

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Posted by Ezra Klein on November 25, 2006 11:19 PM |



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it beats a glass of red paint going for 20 k that I saw at a gallery.

Posted by: akaison | November 26, 2006 1:18 AM

it can be a long journey from growing up and appreciating the easy eye candy of,say, renoir, monet, botticelli, ingres...easy to see the representation of beauty..so easy to grasp and find inspiration in it. easy to marvel at the representational art on attic vases...the marvels of byzantine mosaic and vermeer's magic lightboxes,the delicacy of illuminated manuscripts and the sistine chapel and on and on through the annals of art history.
.....it was a hard road for me when i came upon the cubists...the work of paul klee,tribal art and petroglyphs....and that would be the more complex road that leads to an appreciation for the work of someone like brice marden.
...it becomes about things more elemental, less descriptive,an essence, a simplicity, when less becomes more. when it becomes about the shape, the line, the process, and not about the easier-to-read style or captivating content.
....sometimes the more esoteric works feel deep and authentic;sometimes not, but they expand the meaning of "art" and gives it another dimensionality.
sometimes just in their elemental qualities, simplicity or weirdness.
just another way of "seeing" what is around us, and a means of exploring the interior lives and visions of others. sometimes less becomes more.
...it took me a very long time to appreciate a simple organic piece of river rock as much as i did the spires on chartre...but the day finally came, and i grew through that to appreciate the beauty in simple things.
some of us can put names and price tags on the works of others, but what it teaches me, is that we are all artists at heart.
the history and chronicle of art is a fascinating collective vision of civilization.
for an interesting perspective on this, i recommend the fine book, "wabi sabi - for artists, designers, poets and philosophers", by leonard koren...guaranteed to grow your aesthetic sensibilities in a new way.

Posted by: jacqueline | November 26, 2006 1:30 PM

uhm- I didn't put the 20 k price tag on the glass of red paint

Posted by: akaison | November 26, 2006 1:36 PM

and some people may still wonder how a johns or rothko can fetch millions.
everyone finds beauty, novelty or enlightenment in a different place, and puts a different price tag on it.
chacun a son gout.

Posted by: jacqueline | November 26, 2006 2:01 PM

I don't wonder about it. I understand it completely because I live in NYC, see the fashinistas walking around, and understand that most of it is summed up not as beauty, but what's trendy. Things have value because people say things have value. That doesn't mean I don't get on them and laugh in a knowing way that they are buying a glass of paint for 20k.

Posted by: akaison | November 26, 2006 3:03 PM

Skip the Brice Marsden review and go straight to "Iraq: The War of The Imagination," by Mark Danner. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19720
That article is worth your time:

"Anyone seeking to understand what has become the central conundrum of the Iraq war—how it is that so many highly accomplished, experienced, and intelligent officials came together to make such monumental, consequential, and, above all, obvious mistakes, mistakes that much of the government knew very well at the time were mistakes—must see beyond what seems to be a simple rhetoric of self-justification and follow it where it leads: toward the War of Imagination that senior officials decided to fight in the spring and summer of 2002 and to whose image they clung long after reality had taken a sharply separate turn."

Posted by: JR | November 26, 2006 3:12 PM

akaison...i lived in new york city for many years also, and spent years in the museums and galleries, and also was never one to be influenced by "fashionistas"...
fine and lasting artworks often have nothing to do with the price that is put on them...hence, the sad legacy of many great artists.
it is only over time,that the authentic, true and enduring value of a work of art can be determined as a kind of lasting and necessary vision of a culture.
....otherwise, it is all subjective, and the price of any object that is not utilitarian can be decided by trends and whims in the short term, or by a deep and sincere appreciation or love for the object.
....i might add, unpolished river agates and shells are free...not so easy to find in nyc, but if you are looking for lasting art....a true bargain.

Posted by: jacqueline | November 26, 2006 3:59 PM

I like driftwood myself. My uncle you used to find, and polish them when I was kid. A lot of really complex lines and the composition was better than anything a human could come up with- or from what I have seen thus far of what humans can come up with.

Posted by: akaison | November 26, 2006 5:15 PM

akaison...
i hope you still have some of the pieces that your uncle polished.
i think they would be good to hold in your hand, after a long day in manhattan...or anywhere.
when i lived in new york, a long time ago, among other places, i lived in stuyvesant-town. every night, i would look out my window at a sea of bricks and windows with hunter fans and yellow lights. i could only see a small sliver of moonlight some of the time if i craned my neck. an old couple, night after night, would play cards together by the window in the building across the way.
i felt so weary of manmade things, even though the streets felt so human.
...i started yearning for rocks and hills and big skies. i yearned to see an unobstructed sunset or sunrise.
the driftwood connects you to everything. family, your past and nature. i hope a few pieces are still with you.
if not, i hope you get to a quiet beach to find some soon. it is good for the soul, when your life-streets are filled with fashionistas and bright lights.

Posted by: jacqueline | November 26, 2006 5:34 PM

I agree that the Mark Danner article is well worth everyone's time. Excellent stuff.

Posted by: nolo | November 27, 2006 11:28 AM

i dont really see the point why many people have to understand ART... by not understanding alone is a sign of art,....does i make any sense?

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