Beauty Survives in Art
Written by Lenny Campello
Published August 20, 2004
Published August 20, 2004
John Rockwell writes today in the New York Times Arts section:
"A lot of art, especially of the past, has set out to be beautiful; a lot of art, especially of the present, has set out to be ugly... And yet there has been a kind of semi-guilty underground cult of beauty that has persisted through our ugly times....Art moves in cycles, reacting against what came just before. Maybe some of us have grown weary of being hectored by films, by flashy images and loud music and conventional stories, however well told, that dictate what we should be feeling. At least some of us, at least occasionally, downright crave an antidote in the form of pure beauty."
Speaking from a visual arts perspective, I'm for one, downright sick and tired of the ugly, forgettable creations that we're being force fed by museum curators and eloquently written about by most art critics, and welcome back (hopefully) the return of talent, skill and yes: beauty, the the visual arts.
Thanks AJ!
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