However, a definition of art is more fluid than ever with multifactorial influences shaping human experience in particular with the invasive and destructive tendencies of social media overriding the positives of it as a creative tool.
A combination of dystopian narratives that can also evoke feelings of despair and a degradation of language could lead one to believe that civilisation is on the brink of collapse. The distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between truth and lies no longer exists
Can anything being produced in this era of pluralism once again shock the audience as did much of what occurred before the age of post modernism? Is there anywhere left to go artistically or have we reached the limit of artistic breakthroughs or the possibility of another venture into radical form? Innovation seems a long way off when anything and everything can be considered as art.
Perhaps the answer to the question lies in two areas. One could be a nostalgic yearning for the era of craftsmanship in the face of factory-driven mass production. The other could be what might be called a simplifying of life. The photorealist image arrives without emotional entanglements, complete within itself and defying interpretation. It simply is.
Every time I hear that old chestnut of a cliché that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I am left wondering.
Recently I have seen any number of artists, particularly abstract artists, asking what titles they should put on their works. The original function of a title in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was to identify the work for sale purposes and was more often...