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Aneirin -> RE: The Art of Truth ? (9/15/2011 8:48:51 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DeviantlyD
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
I have been wondering recently at what the purpose of art is, especially when I view so much art that seems to warn of problems that are set to or are rising in our midst. For example, the movie industry, entertainment though it is to most, the themes that some movies even blockbusters dwell on seem to be almost a warning in many respects. The book 1984 by George Orwell is being discussed in another thread on this forum and how the concepts in the book are becoming very real in our modern society. There are many other examples of would be entertainment instilling provoking thoughts, but the question is, is entertainment a vehicle for sublime public education ?
I wouldn't view the commercial movie industry as art. Independent films possibly, but, generally, movies with big budgets are not art and hence not a vehicle for public education.
Why not, does something cease to become artistic because someone has a lot of money to inject into a production, does Damien Hurst's production ; For the Love of God cease to become art because it cost £14 million to produce ? But what does money buy, well those artists involved in the advertising industry will tell you money buys visual appeal, the greater the visual impact the more likely one is to communicate their message, as most of us are attracted by what we see, and it is what we see that tells us much before we are told via audio or other forms of less demanding communication.
But to examine what might be going on within movies whilst we are being assaulted with the visual appeal that big money buys, for sure big money invested often begets big money returned in industry for that is the purpose of industry, the movie industry is a prime example, but again advertising tells us in order to reach out to the majority, visual appeal is so important and we all know pretty packaging attracts.
But entertainment, is it just something to entertain, or is it is a form of communication, what happens in our minds when we are sitting there relaxed enjoying the entertainment that movies are, are we just following the story whilst the visual appeal holds us in amazement, or is the artist that created the work effectively communicating their ideas ?
For example, the movie block buster, Avatar, cost shit loads to produce, I heard at the time the most so far, it made those that created the movie shit loads of money in profit, an industrial success, but to the consumer it was a visual feast, but what else came across in that movie besides the visual, a message ? If you felt something was trying to be communicated, you might have asked of what the producer was trying to convey and with Avatar, it is known the producer was promoting his thing, his personal issue, that of deforestation in the face of big business, he likened his artwork to the Amazon rain forest, another fern gully as critics have commented, but of those that received the message, did it make more people become aware of enviromental issues than there was before the movie ?
That is what I am trying to say, visual appeal it being a form of communication, is it being used to sell us ideas, and of those ideas, are we being influenced, educated even warned ? But there is a danger in what we are told by art, for it is possible because something happens in the movies and literature some might think as the movies portray fiction, fiction can never become fact, so we might miss out on the stupidly obvious, so art can also be a vehicle for misinformation, but who is it that is misinformed, the majority or the minority ?
But of artists, why is it the political inspires art so much, could it be artists as observers react to what their senses detect and there because of their need to communicate, do so via creation ?. But of art, the successful art, the art that is most known, what was the thought that instigated the art, for it is known many artists are propelled by what they feel in this world, many of whom I know create their best through the negative aspects of life that they experience, and when questioned on that fact, they say a small voice in a big world is never heard, but create something that challenges, and one might at last be heard, for everyone has something to say that can change the world.
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