lunes, 23 de septiembre de 2013

Repito y respaldo con Duchamp:


That's the trouble: taste cant't help you to understand what art can be. The difficulty is to make a painting that is alive, so that when it dies in fifty years, it goes back into that purgatory of art history. As far as art history is concerned, we know that in spite of what the artist said or did, something stayed on that was completely independent of what the artist desired; it was grabbed by society, which made it its own. The artist doesn't count. He does not count. Society takes what it wants. 

The artist thinks he knows. He's painting a nude, and he thinks he knows what he's doing. He's painting is nice looking. But it has nothing to do with what the onlooker sees in it: he sees an entire different side. It's always based on the two poles, the onlooker an the maker, and the spark that comes from that bipolar action gives birth to something -like electricity. Don't say that the artist is a great thinker because he produces it. The artist produces nothing until the onlooker has said, "You have produced something marvelous." The onlooker has the last word on it.

2 comentarios:

Don Julio dijo...

mala!
Venía todo divino
y ahora
no entendí nada!!!!

¿quién resistirá cuando el arte ataque? esa es la pregunta.
y la otra...
si el arte no te ataca la sensibilidad...entonces es como una serie yanky la obra...da solo pa pasar el rato.

El rato mientras espero que vuelvas a escribir. Claro.

María dijo...

Hola Don Julio,

Sí, mil perdones por el inglés y la vagancia de no traducir.

Para mí el arte no ataca, para mí salva, revela. Puede perturbar, pero esa perturbación siempre tiene que ver con una parte que ya está en uno mismo, el arte lo único que viene a hacer es a tocar esa carne viva, a movilizar. Gracias a eso, a esa comunicación, es que a mí se me hace posible seguir viviendo y encontrar cierto sentido escondido entre tanta tontería cotidiana.

De eso habla lo que dice Duchamp, de que la percepción del espectador es tan necesaria como el artista mismo para valorar una obra de arte.

Saludos