From:
"Bob Hackett" <kinfolk@zzzzzzz>
Date:
Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:10:33 -0400
Subject:
The Original Question
Bill Marsh wrote:
Quoted text begins."Weight" is a good word (gravitas?). Visual weight, perhaps. Meaning
might be too strict, as I think meaning is something of which the viewer
provides a great deal. The artist's meaning and the viewer's can have
little to do with one another, and the work can still be successful.
As Bob, Elaine, and others have said, it's something that touches you
inside, as an artist and as a viewer. And it's amazing how what you
feel about your own work can change after it is done, and has been
responded to by others. Many unconscious processes are at work here, I
think.
End of quote.
Might I suggest that the beauty,meaning,weight,etc may be in the
connection and not the work?
Harry mentioned Universiality of Appeal as one of the tenets for judging
art.It stands to reason that the wider the acceptance by your target
audience(you do know who you're reaching to,don't you?) the stronger and
more broad the connection.
Perhaps the frustration felt by many of us is that we are torn between
wanting to be "new" and needing to be true.
Unless of course you're only in it for the money.That has a way of
simplifying things.;^)
Bob
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