ArtPrize, 7 Artists Collaborating, Individual responsibility in Art Concepts
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle Big News About Our Latest Project! Artist E is supporting this group of artists for ArtPrize 2025.7 woman artists are creating Portals; In Nature We Heal and will be exhibiting at Monroe Community Church in Grand Rapids starting on September 18 through October 4: Anna Barnhart, Cindi Brunell, Anna Donahue, Nicole Coman, Sri McCarthy, E. Susan Meekhof, and Annie Vedovell. See our Kickstarter page to get original artwork from us in return for supporting our project.
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Talking about art...I came across an article about art, something I am always on the lookout for. But what interests me most about current creative events and artworks is how they affect us and how we interact with the art. Lately I have been thinking about how art eventually devolves into nothing. You can probably think of several examples of this like duck-taped bananas, paint gun art, etc. I see lots of art that has no meaning or has a questionable reference to what most consider "art." Radical individualism is an example of artistic expression that becomes meaningless to everyone except the individual artist. Here's an example from the article by Nigel Biggar, "The Dignity of the Responsible Individual and the Dangerous Evil of Radical Individualism." He is talking about culture in the western hemisphere. " the mission of the artist is centrally to offend and shock—to ‘push the boundaries’ of acceptable taste. Take for example, the 1998 work of the ‘Young British Artist’, Tracey Emin, which consisted of the staging of Emin’s squalid bed. More broadly, in public discourse, liberty is made to amount to the right of the individual to choose—say, assisted suicide—regardless of such social effects as the exposure of the vulnerable to the risk of abuse and the weakening of the common sense of duty to support those in adversity. In the contemporary West, the dignity of the individual is often identified simply with absolute liberty. Esteem for the individual has degenerated into radical individualism." What do You think? I would love to hear what you think about this or anything ART! Anna Donahue Art |