From:
Bill Marsh <bmarsh54@zzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Wed, 09 Jun 2004 01:06:01 -0400
Subject:
aesthetics
Bill Urmenyi wrote:
Quoted text begins.Most artists do not like talking about their work ...
End of quote.
You're right, Bill, and I did talk about my work, and learned about my
self in the process. What I was harping on about was what we called the
"MFA Rap," a glib spinning of complicated tales about motivation and
symbolism, and the idea that one dreamed all this stuff up before
beginning a work. This approach always left me feeling that a kind of
skin had been wrapped around a piece to justify it, without which it
couldn't stand on its own. It was a "baffle them with bulls**t"
approach to art making, one that I just couldn't buy into. That didn't
make me mute about my work, but when there was something about it I
didn't understand myself, I said so. Art has to be somewhat mysterious
to the viewer AND the artist, like a good movie in which questions
remain unexplained at the end. If you had every conceivable fact about
a work, or the process of its creation, at your immediate disposal, then
what possible role could imagination and creativity have?
I should have stuck to the elephant jokes.
Bill Marsh
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