Contemporary art by Sterling Rodriguez: The Contemporary/modern art world of today has kind of an insane and broad mindset to grasp. In order to be considered a fine artist of today, you can not consider yourself a fine artist of today. That is like saying I am not a plumber, therefore I am a plumber. Nothing can be everything, but everything is endless. With so much artistic freedom, where does one place their bar of standards in todays creative world? Is being aesthetically appealing enough to qualify a piece as art? Can an artist only be considered an artist if their pieces generate currency? Is the relevance of ones work merely determined by ones financial success and not based on the extent of their creative and expressive processes? This quote by Lucien Freud is rather inspiring and says a lot for the modern art collector that buys expensive pieces for the sake of the artists name and popularity. As well as popular culture titling everything and everyones projects as art. My ideal in art is that the artist shows none of themselves, as god is to nature, the man is nothing; the work is everything. The highest achievement in art is not to make us laugh or cry, smile or frown, but to do as nature does and fill us with wonderment(instant state of admiration). As an artist, I feel that a pieces relevance is only as relevant as the artist exemplifies in their craft and study of the medium in which they choose to portray their emotions. Contemporary is not a word I use, because it holds no concrete meaning, or ideology. One cannot study contemporary art, because one is contemporary art, concluding that one is indefinitely not contemporary art.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:01:46 +0000
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