what can be art

["Bill Urmenyi" <bill@zzzzzzzzzzzzz>]

Norman
You say that you are looking for questions and answers. The problem is that, in contemporary art, there are no answers on offer. There are only questions. This is one of the main difficulties that the untrained have with contemporary art. They are looking for answers. Nothing is quite what it seems so you, the viewer, are confronted with thought provoking objects not just copies of life. You leave with more than you came with, that makes it art.

I believe that I have given this example before but I think that it is worth repeating. There is a common question 'which came first, the chicken or the egg?'. This is an interesting question. The answer is obvious, it was the egg that came first as it was not a chicken that laid it but something similar to a chicken. So I put it to you that the question is far more interesting than the answer. So why should an artist bother with answers when questions are so much more interesting? It is the questions that make you think more about the world we live in, the situations we find ourselves in and people around us. That is art.

Bill Urmenyi