A reflection on art and its maker
Art is the highlight of life; it gives life more sense and meaning than anything else. Beauty and critic are art’s most powerful allies in transcending a banal reality and making it history. The prior appeals to the senses, just like Stanley Kubrick’s candle-lit scenes in “Barry Lyndon”; the latter analyzes reality and produces knowledge that directly battles the dominant logic and motivates social change. Beauty is sensical and an outward process that depends on visual technique and creativity, whereas critic is rational and generated internally, leaning on previous intellectual background and attentive observation of reality.
If these two elements are generated solely by the will of their creator, then the artist has honored his title. When the artist lends his craft to external interests, then be becomes a trained worker or a mere executor of tasks. Worse yet, he might not only dishonor his title, but also his morals through the cowardly dissemination of merchant foolishness.
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