Well I have asked myself this question many times.. Have we taken the
mediums to the point of exhaustion? Have we done everything that is
to be done. I don't think that there will be any real big
advancements in form driven art for a long time.. or ever.. In the
past we were learning about the space that surrounded us and how we
could represent it on a 2d medium.. The artists then did the studies
and all the work for us.. Now it seems we just recreate it over and
over again.. as if it was an excercise.
In the world of form and function.. Form driven art (pop art) I think
is at its peak.. Sure you can come up with some different twists in
how you show a similar idea.. much like the movie industry just keeps
twisting the same 13 themes.
I think our biggest advancements will be in the User Interface,
Industrial Design, and Functional design. Functional Design has only
been studied and explored since the 1930's.. and I think there is
much more to be done in this area of art. Its a whole other ballgame
and as technology, new techniques, and new materials are developed we
will see some exciting new things we consider art. (see
http://www.ideo,com and http://www,frogdesign.com )
Bauhaus forever.
john
> >It seems too
>> many artists today just do things 'cos they think >it's 'hip', 'passe'
>> or
>> 'kitsch' or whatever. No imagination whatsoever.
>Dorian, I'd disagree - I don't think it's that lazy or the motivation
>that simple. I don't neccesarily like much of it, but I can appreciate
>where it's coming from - if you go down the 'call that art, I could do
>that' line you end up back with the sort of attitudes modernism was
>meant to break down (the sort of things that lead to broadsheet
>newspapers still having a 'Music' section just classical, and the rest
>is 'Pop'). . Just remembered one piece I do like - a Rachel Whitehead
>one where she's suspended fragments of something exploding in a room -
>when you're far enough that you can't see the wires, it looks exactly
>like a freeze-frame photo of an explosion, but you can move round it -
>kind of like a fine-art equivalent to that trick photography in The
>Matrix.
>
>Helen - not got the Broadcast LP (got it on order) but the gig last week
>was wonderful - really good use of film projections with lots of 60s/70s
>educational footage (atoms, bees, cells, space footage, etc). Take it
>you have the United States of America LP? Have you checked the
>soundtrack to Midnight Cowboy too - the Elephants Memory track is almost
>identical to a Broadcast song.
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