I’d be the first to recognise that the audience provides at least fifty percent of the meaning of a work but questions of beauty, not being given to sentimentality personally, is enough to give you a headache.
But why a dominance of women? To loosely quote Yuval Noah Harari, if you put 1000 chimpanzees in a room [our nearest evolutionary ancestors] you get chaos. If you put 1000 male artists in a room more than likely it will end up as war. 10,000 artists, on an internet site though, most of them women, and the mythical glue of creativity takes over in an atmosphere of communal conviviality. Art as self-expression? Art as therapy? Art as a social imperative? Art as a reiteration of hunter-gatherer society and the control of magic and ritual? Perhaps. The collective power that erected pyramids was the result of a collective belief and sense of community purpose but the uptake of a current course on Abstract paint application may leave no such legacy but you can’t deny that one exists.
No matter what selection committees deem to be the representative art of the day to hang or be installed in a Biennale pavilion, there is no guarantee that they have ‘got it right’ or that the artist/exhibit will even be remembered once the exhibit is over let alone become a beacon of cultural representation – unless a book is written about it. What is more likely is that being hung as the representative artist will be forever emblematic of a time, a place and art thinking that seeks to draw artificial battle lines.
If you don’t want this culture warrior father and his precocious five year old turning up at your next opening you’d better either consult him and his progeny first so that you’re all on the same page artwise or gird your art loins in preparation for the trial in the court of public opinion.
It seems to be part of the human condition that while we cannot predict future events, as soon as those events happen we find it hard to see how they were anything other than inevitable.
…….the plethora of social media sites offering lessons in Abstract painting [with guaranteed success]. Learn to paint like Pollock, or de Kooning, or Picasso or Hoffman in six easy lessons and take on the art world.