Random thoughts on art and more

Today's entry will be comprised of random, personal opinions on visual arts and more. Stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else, but I'd like to share it anyway. So here goes, in random order and not related to each other.. (..or are they?)

Any piece of art, be it a painting, musical piece, vase or mural, doesn't need a message in order to be "relevant", it's reason to be is the sole fact of it's existence. For example, many of the greatest pieces of art are religiously themed. Being an atheist, that fails to connect with me the same way that it would with a religious person, but I can still find the work really good for many other reasons, objective or not. In this context, thoughts like "what did the author wanted to say with that?" or "yeah, this is pretty, but I can't see the meaning behind it" are just amusing brain exercise.

The main components of an image (composition, colour, pattern, structure, perspective, etc.) are what the image as a whole is. All the Social relevancy, symbols, hidden messages or naked ladies in the world can't make any difference, if the basics are messed up.

Intellectual jibberish that gets thrown around in the fine art world...Terms borrowed from philosophy, semiotic analysis, pompous and condescending behaviour and other such practices fully justify the "ivory tower" preconception of most people towards the "elite" art circles. The truth is, like in most cases, that it's only partially true. There are many nice, smart people with their feet firmly on the ground to be found even here, if you search carefully.

The professional artist is a schizo-like beast, extremely egocentric, and yet not taking himself completely serious. At the same time. % )

And to finish it off, one slightly metaphysical: In every honest work of art you feel an echo of the author's soul. An emotion maybe, or his zeitgeist, it is all there. That's why seeing, hearing, sensing or making art is so fulfilling endeavor, and that's why it is part of the human essence.