How many artists will tell you that they work by intuition? Quite a few. In the last hundred years or so it has become the go-to explanation for modernism and everything that followed.
The more obscure the title, the more the work assumes significance or special qualities that separate it from the pack.
Perhaps I should align myself with a social cause, be filmed protesting outside Parliament and get myself arrested as did the likes of Ai Wei Wei and the Guerilla girls on numerous occasions – but then again, maybe not.
Albert Camus the author philosopher was not the only one to consider that not only is life meaningless but that art is humanity’s ceaseless attempt to impose order to counter the alienation experienced in confronting a chaotic world.
Part of any gallery ritual is the explanation provided. The necessity to explain in objective terms is all-pervasive and often becomes the be-all and end-all of looking at a work of art.
