What is the role of art in the world?
Posted on Jul 1st, 2008
by 
kcidybom
kcidybom
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 01, 2008:
When all the bullshit, all the arbitrary constructions of our crafts, all the provocative inhibitions of our culture, all the seedy inheritance of our occluded vision, all the proselytizing priests of whatever, when all of these are unceremoniously stripped away, there remains, at the core of cores, art, in all its forms. That's all there is to it, and art's role is manifest.
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July 2008 
wow, what set this off tonight.
you are an artist my friend. it's all art. yep.
I'm signing up for this! Then again what exists other then art?
And art is the breath which animates matter.
Bravo
Thanks gais. I love your love…;-)
w00t.
If art is paring away then it's the opposite of artifice, but sometimes I think they comingle nicely.
Is bullshit ever art? Hmmm.
I had to look up w00t - I had forgotten - Ha! Thanks Jeannie.
And I suppose you could make literal bullshit art in the bovine version of MOMA, but otherwise … otherwise …
I am finding how deeply cathartic art is for my soul….Im so thankful I found it this year in myself! :-) Love you Albert! Big hugs
Thanks Julia. Me too.
I owe ya - soon.
xoxo
exquisite lil manifesto.. & thx for two new words to my vocabulary :-) love & joy tara
Yes, art is a stripping away of construct and inhibition and BS, but just to play devil's advocate, isn't it also an accretion? Layer upon layer of knowledge and wisdom – to reference another of your great QARs Albert – that builds into a larger truth? Like Vermeer's layers upon layers of paint that create a translucence hardly achievable in real life …
Hey tara - welcome to you, and thanks.
DLil - Yup. The building, both as verb and noun … well, sooo cool.