Post Post Scriptum

I discussed my posting on the Biennale with my wife, and she offered an interesting insight.

It is not because beauty defies definition that true artists need a long and hard apprenticeship. True artists know what beauty is. But attaining it is extremely difficult, and requires long and hard work.

She added that beauty appeals to the senses and cannot be explained in words. Contemporary art does not appeal to the senses but to the intellect. Now most artists want to make a statement, an intellectual statement. No great artistic skill is required for this.

If we accept that their work is artistic work, in spite of the fact that it is not an aesthetic pursuit, then the definition of art in our dictionaries needs to change.

Art is whatever you want it to be ... whatever concretization of your thoughts that you want to produce and exhibit ...