Yes there is a purpose in longevity of enjoying and learning from. Boris Shoshensky
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: "I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we d idn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to an other generation, really." Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:29:29 -0400 The subject of art is that aspect of our being we seek to find the means to objectify (externalize, make actual) - if the aspect of being is imagined or illusionary - so is the art, consequently because being is an emergent subject (that is unfixed and as yet undefined) the artist must be both an aesthete (capable of giving form) and a warrior/ hero (capable of sacrificing that which is, in the name of what is coming into being) - longevity has nothing to do it with it - it is all about purposefulness - On 5/24/10 11:01 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: The ingredients for art are in nature. We have to extract them and assemble to the different degree of success. Anything can be potentially art only on ingredients level. Not everything is art when assembled. Standard is: what is valued the longest and used the most in learning a given art.
