Tuesday, 1 April 2014

What is beauty? - beauty of artist.

Why do we know Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol even there were more than thousand artists in the same period they lived? People who do not study art even know them as great artists. Beauty of society was bit fine to think about, but beauty of artist, this is really my unsolved answer of question and personal opinion. 



The last post 'beauty of society' is written for showing that each societies have had different beauty standards. Actually I feel bit clear about 'Beauty of society', but I'm really not sure about 'beauty of artists.'. The questions simple, Does artist make new 'beauty of society' or just follow 'beauty of society' society made?. 


Paintings by Piet Mondrian. We can see process of his painting getting simpler. In the same period of he lived, many of painters tried to make new form of painting. And mostly painters start to break real object down and make them simple. Also Pablo Picasso has done this kind of process as well, and he invented cubism.

I believe camera was the most important thing caused huge changing of art especially painting. Before human have camera, there is no way to save visual image except painting. Rolling class want to keep their portraits, so they had to be in front of painter to get painted their portraits by painters. However, camera which can make much more realistic portraits, and that was much more faster than painter.
Demand for painting has a rapidly decrease, and a huge wind of change was blowing through the art world. I guess there are two ways to have process what artists have done. The first, artists were trying to be different from camera for demand of societies. The second, artists had desire to break traditional form, and they did it when rolling class focused on camera which was very interesting new medium.

I think the first way is more about following beauty of society. And the second is more about following desire of artists. I just realize something now when I just write this sentence. Following beauty of society and following desire of artist are making new beauty, both of them try to make new beauty. When public feel interesting about something new, that will be new beauty of society. And artists are public as well.

Artists are one part of society trying to make beauty. All people in societies are making beauty such as scientists, singers, office worker and even street booth worker. The all people called public include artists are making new candidates of beauties and choosing new beauty of society.

It does not matter printer print visual image by human control or just random system. If that was beautiful, public would choose that as new beauty of society. And that public is also including artists.