Art for Art's Sake
Quoted: "For a really healthy development of all the arts, you need an educated audience as well as performers." --Eleanor Roosevelt
We've reached a point in the history of the world where the art that one finds is not in any way tied with the skill of the artist. In today's communications scheme, any person can publish art of almost any sort without having to convince anyone that the art has any artistic merit. A hundred years ago, you wouldn't have had access to anything remotely resembling the amount of very bad poetry, very poorly-constructed stories, and totally worthless paintings you can find today. The internet has made the unheard voice audible across the world, and the world has not yet realized what Edward R. Morrow stated so brilliantly: "The fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer upon you greater wisdom or understanding than you possessed when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other."
More explanations later...
Link of the Day: R.I.G.H.T.S. - This is a website those of you who are interested in photography for websites may find interesting. I didn't look very closely at the website, but its premise looks cool, so I thought I'd share.
We've reached a point in the history of the world where the art that one finds is not in any way tied with the skill of the artist. In today's communications scheme, any person can publish art of almost any sort without having to convince anyone that the art has any artistic merit. A hundred years ago, you wouldn't have had access to anything remotely resembling the amount of very bad poetry, very poorly-constructed stories, and totally worthless paintings you can find today. The internet has made the unheard voice audible across the world, and the world has not yet realized what Edward R. Morrow stated so brilliantly: "The fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer upon you greater wisdom or understanding than you possessed when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other."
More explanations later...
Link of the Day: R.I.G.H.T.S. - This is a website those of you who are interested in photography for websites may find interesting. I didn't look very closely at the website, but its premise looks cool, so I thought I'd share.