It has been a
while since I last posted anything on the Accidental Masterpiece. In this particular chapter, I got a feel for
one particular theme: How do you define beauty?
Defining beauty isn’t that simple.
Beauty means many things to others.
There is a superficial Hollywood type, there
is a nature type, there is a personality type, and then there is an artistic
type. We can’t just define one. What I’m going to talk about is artistic
beauty. As a fellow artist, I feel
everything I create is beautiful. To me,
the beautiful thing about art is the detail that surrounds a mystery that can’t
be solved in another person’s head, but instead it’s the artist’s head that the
viewer is witnessing.
Jackson Pollock
is a good example of this. Viewers often get lost in Pollock’s work, and aren’t
sure what the symbolism in his art means.
Pollock is the only one that knows the true meaning behind his
work. We can guess, but we will never be
certain about Pollock’s true meaning.
For all we know, maybe there is no meaning behind his paintings, and he
tricked everybody into thinking there was a meaning with just a disguised
method of beauty that Pollock created. We just don’t know.
In the end,
Beauty means different things to others.
We can’t define it in a dictionary.
We all have our own definition of beauty.
After our study on Pollock, I can now say that I think that is what is so magnificent about his work. As you said, without a definite image, deciphering one of his paintings to figure out the meaning behind it and his motives is pointless. This is the way that I think, art is viewed today. Every one is so caught up in figuring out exactly what is meant by the painting. This is unfortunate, isn't it? What's the point of that anyway?
ReplyDeletePollock, unlike other artists, was not only capable of displaying an image, but actually shared an experience with his audience. Maybe this makes it a bit more personal? His art can then find a home in his viewer's themselves, making them specific to oneself and leaving a lasting memory. You don't walk away from one of his paintings analyzing the moral of the story.