âThe Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Artâ - Timothy R. Quigley

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Modern Art: Basic Assumptions, Definitions, and QualificationsThe Value of Avant-Garde PaintingWhether a culture succeeds in expressing in artistic form its ideas and outlook andexperiences is to be determined by examining not simply the subject-matter of oneart, like painting, but the totality of its arts, and including the forms as well as thethemes.Within that totality today painting has its special tasks and possibilitiesdiscovered by the artists in the course of their work. In general, painting tends toreinforce those critical attitudes which are well represented in our literature: theconstant searching of the individual, his motives and feelings, the currents ofsocial life, the gap between actuality and ideals….By maintaining his loyalty to the value of art — to responsible creative work, thesearch for perfection, the sensitiveness to quality — the artist is one of themost moral and idealistic of beings, although his influence on practical affairsmay seem very small.Painting by its impressive example of inner freedom and inventiveness and by itsfidelity to artistic goals, which include the mastery of the formless andaccidental, helps to maintain the critical spirit and the ideals of creativeness,sincerity and self-reliance, which are indispensable to the life of our culture.[Schapiro, 11]Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Modern Art: Basic Assumptions, Definitions, and QualificationsThe Value of Avant-Garde PaintingIn the end, according to Schapiro, avant-garde art refines and reinforcesvalues that are crucial for living a creative and satisfying life.And the artist is the ethical agent responsible for producing art which hasthis liberating potential.Hans Hofmann, Radiance, 1956Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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