Most abstract art requires an education to appreciate it I agree. I hated it until I went to art school. In many ways I think this is more at the heart of an art for experts (or at least dedicated amateurs) versus art for the people.
One way we can classify it is by the context the artist put it in. Now if the case wants to be made that it's the same with Chihuly (I don't know enough about him to say one way or the other), that's another issue, but I do think that as an artist if you make the choice to be abstract or obscure your motivations and context there is a penalty that may have to be paid for that and this kind of a debate is sometimes that penalty.
Considering the art vs craftsman angle of this debate I found this article sort of amusing:
This is also an issue that in some ways is more about artistic process than art, for example my mother does not (as I do) struggle to reconcile her enjoyment of some avante gaurd art with a belief that it's also fairly self indulgent and often so isolating and cliquish that it risks not serving the function I feel good art must which is to communicate something about the world and our place in it..the roles of truth and beauty even if that truth or beauty is hard to witness, or is painful.
And the reason for that is I think that as an artist I have a reverance for the artistic process as well as art, but at the end of the day it is my own belief that art is more important than the people who create it.
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Date: 2008-08-04 11:47 pm (UTC)One way we can classify it is by the context the artist put it in. Now if the case wants to be made that it's the same with Chihuly (I don't know enough about him to say one way or the other), that's another issue, but I do think that as an artist if you make the choice to be abstract or obscure your motivations and context there is a penalty that may have to be paid for that and this kind of a debate is sometimes that penalty.
Considering the art vs craftsman angle of this debate I found this article sort of amusing:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/266884_dalelawsuit17.html
This is also an issue that in some ways is more about artistic process than art, for example my mother does not (as I do) struggle to reconcile her enjoyment of some avante gaurd art with a belief that it's also fairly self indulgent and often so isolating and cliquish that it risks not serving the function I feel good art must which is to communicate something about the world and our place in it..the roles of truth and beauty even if that truth or beauty is hard to witness, or is painful.
And the reason for that is I think that as an artist I have a reverance for the artistic process as well as art, but at the end of the day it is my own belief that art is more important than the people who create it.