Art and Space

Vis art is so political, even without words. If music is too, and writing is for sure, and aesthetics is everything to me, then politics is a much more loaded word that infusse into every aspect, facet of life and “the social.” Perhaps something political happens or is implicated even in the simple act of grocery shopping, hopping on the school shuttle.

Art is everything, art is nothing. The ability to write stories and poems may not apply to a job, but developing this intrinsic and intense ability has changed me forever. The most memorable sentence from the Dadaism article perhaps is that emphasis should shift from the art object to the personality of the artist behind the work.

Dadaism's critical view, that people put art and its beauty on a pedestal, reminds me of what Laura Mulvey says in her famous article on Visual Cinema and Pleasure, that “analyzing beauty destroys it.”