I consider art to be any medium in which the human uses to portray an idea, emotion, ...etc. These mediums are typically music, visual art, dance, theater, film, writing...and whatever else you can think of. But the intenion is so...to portray the essence of what is within. Any techniques or ideas to aid that can be beneficial but often it is taken out of functionality and abused without much regard to the core of what IS art.
I'm no expert on termonilogy to any extent but I don't feel that I have to be...afterall, this is art... a native charactertistic of humans that understands of what I feel to be a truely divine communication. I feel my natural ability can make such statement. Too many artists lose control of what is important. Instead of focusing on what the work ULTIMATELY entails from workiing from the inside-out....artists sometimes work from the outside-in. Inside meaning the ultiamte message at hand, and outside meanign what you do to enhance this message. I do believe in the use of affects, lighting, dynamics, emotion, and any other artistic embelshment but when all efforts are focused on technique the grasp onto the PURPOSE is lost...technquie, effects, and the other stuff must naturally eveolve out of a genuine pursuit to portray what is intended. I think an effort to be "dfferent" has taken on an utterly wrong perspective. When you have a work that only your professors and colleague can understand then the purpose of art has been disregarded entirely. It doesnt speak, it doesnt resonate...it only makes you an A in your compositon or film or choreography or art class...
True, not everyone is capable of understanding various art as many levels of depth are present but the effort to expand this circel of udnerstanding MUST be present...or the beauty of art itself begins to diminish.
I blame academia. I blame the school. I blame the professors that are growing in number that promote a false sense of innovation that is mistaken for an arttistic pursuit. Yes, art must progress but not at a rate that is faster than understanding. Things must progress from the inside-out. From love that yields new thought and idea...not the other way around.
I got the idea of this blog after seeing great example of both art that fulfills its purpose and art that fulfills nothing more than to raise eyebrows of maybe a film professor. You can tell...both examples had new features, had new ideas...but one more so than the others actually used them to feed the ultimate message, idea, emotion...and the ones that failed miserably were jsut scattered pieces of idea.
I welcome progression in art, but not when the idea of progression is the sole goal...art is in its truest form when it's innovations are yielded by a genuine purpose.
