ou are the artist, the creator, and it is your own ego that is being satisfied. It is rewarding if others understand your aim but it is never your duty to explain it…
TO TELL OR NOT TO TELL – THAT IS THE QUESTION
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DECADENCE – THE ART OF THE RAT RACE
Can we say that contemporary art has stopped moving forward and is essentially moribund and reeking of turpitude? Perhaps. As a society we have found a way of having all styles, ideas and histories running simultaneously. There is no past and no present.
THERE IS ALWAYS THE FAUSTIAN ALTERNATIVE TO ARTISTIC LEGACY.
One thing is true, quality alone does not guarantee a legacy any more than does a life of singular debauchery that may titillate the airport novel seeker. Some artists live on as a one-line synopsis while others have their position established in the greater narrative via relatives.
LIFE, DEATH, ART AND DECORATION
1722 Europe was characterised by financial shocks and stock market bubbles, a controversial vaccine keeping the barely-recognised smallpox virus at bay, Russia invading a neighbouring nation and the Versailles legacy of Louis XIV bankrupting France. Not much has changed it would seem. Three centuries later inflation, Covid, Putin and the excesses of royalty still dominate the news.
THE DISTURBED, THE MISUNDERSTOOD AND THE MELANCHOLIC
Federico Garcia-Lorca wrote that ‘at the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy’. Melancholy ……….a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. He was writing as a poet, but any number of blues musicians would probably agree...
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LIVING ARTISTS festival
Once a year during August every South Australian artist puts up an exhibition, takes part in a group show or opens up their studio to the public. This year i'm opening my Vanilla Sky Studio each weekend