The Grand Design
The Grand Design is a blog that uses the evolution of ideas
in art as a reference for dealing with contemporary events.
We welcome others who wish to share their ideas to make
the world a better place to live in. Fallout from 911 is only one issue.
Other events present other issues. The war in Iraq continues
to be a major issue we need to solve. Today we have weapons
of mass destruction and the ability to pinpoint targets that
can cause our planet major harm.
"Fallout" Sonia S. Astor & Ted Astor
in art as a reference for dealing with contemporary events.
We welcome others who wish to share their ideas to make
the world a better place to live in. Fallout from 911 is only one issue.
Other events present other issues. The war in Iraq continues
to be a major issue we need to solve. Today we have weapons
of mass destruction and the ability to pinpoint targets that
can cause our planet major harm.
"Fallout" Sonia S. Astor & Ted Astor
posted by sonia at 3/24/2006 09:50:00 AM
4 Comments:
Let us consider George W. Bush as "a contemporary event." How, I ask myself, has the evolution of ideas in art provided us with a reference for dealing with such "a contemporary event"?
I think of the impressionist idea of art and immediately grasp "Bush" as a hazy figure, even one composed of tiny dots a la Seurat.
I go forward "with the evolution of ideas in art" to the Dada period, brought to mind by the current exhibition in Washington, and I now see "Bush" as a torn newspaper with a smear of mustard.
Onward to abstract expressionism and Rothko. Seurat's dots merge to produce a huge, inky black canvas/ newspaper, no longer torn, devoid of the mustard smear but requiring "Bush" to be created by the viewer from this monumental Rorschach Blot.
Which segues, evolutionary style and appropriately, to conceptual art. Now I see "Bush" as a concept, as conceived by the mind and not requiring dots on a canvas nor objects of everyday life like newspapers or mustard nor some black abstraction.
And what, you ask, do I "conceive"? My answer--perhaps you have already grasped it-- is "a grand design." And you ask, what is this grand design? My answer, my "bush" has now lost his initial capital letter, the "b" disappears, and what was "Bush" that became "bush" is now and forever "ush."
Brilliant. Incisive. Extraordinary. At the same time callow, feckless, jejune.
Responding to Tushee, out of the events such as Iraq, come issues. The Grand Design simplifies the complex.
THE GRAND DESIGN is an artist's expression of the Oneness that is the universe we live in.
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