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| The Aesthetics of Silence / Susan Sontag
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| Art was considered as an expression of human consciousness, a consciousness seeking to know itself. Later this changed into a more ‘’anti-art’’ movement where the subject (in this case: the object / image) became eliminated and chance was substituted for intention and with this the pursuit for silence started.
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| In this earlier linear version of art that was related to consciousness a struggle existed between creative impulses seen as ‘’spiritual’’ and the ‘’real’’ material daily life. This materiality interferes with this search to authenticity and maybe even divinity.
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| In this newer version rests a conflict: The spirit seeks a dialogue with art but this consciousness gets disturbed by the material character in art itself. Art can become the biggest enemy of the artist with its second hand perceptions, treachery of words and its historicity denies the artist the realisation and transcendence that is so desired.
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| The craving of silence becomes interfered with the need to measure oneself against other artists. The need to possess and expose this genius becomes an expression of authority. It suggests that artist possesses the intelligence to ask more questions than other people and therefore acquires excellency.
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| A silence that is genuine and pure is not possible. The artist that wants to create ‘’silence’’ has to present this to different viewpoints. Because of this creation of silence becomes a full void, enriching emptiness, a resonating or eloquent silence. As silence is an aspect of dialogue and a form of speech.
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| In the current environment art yearns to be a ‘’total experience’’ demanding the full attention of the onlooker.
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| Compare this with the difference between looking and staring. A look is in a way voluntary while a stare is compulsive and fixed. Traditional art invites a look while modern art ignites a stare. A stare is perhaps, as close to eternity, as contemporary art can get.
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Latest revision as of 19:54, 30 June 2021
