Abstraction is precisely not grounded in any universal or grand generalities. It is tied to individual experience and to individual sensibility, as they are given greater scope and play. One part of modernity in fact believes in absolute order, and this is one of the reasons that totalitarian governments have never cared for abstract art. Our common culture comes precisely from what is not shared among us. It is not the universal wiring, not the neurology, not the absolute forms of things external to us. The crucial motor generating cultural change, churning out the new, is best found in modern society in private visions, even when those visions are seemingly stupid, banal, hermetic and utterly particular...abstract art, far from speaking to those things that unite us, to what we all have in common, is generated precisely from giving the greatest vent to those things that make us individually different and separate from each other. Kirk Varnedoe, Pictures of Nothing
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:59:44 +0000
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