| To find elementa in art there are many difficulties to consider- art is
such a complicated thing and "oversimplifications" are
condemned in most of the four
hype urban corners of the world. But there are limits of growth in art as in every other ecology - suddenly a breakdown is there (as in anti art; an empty gallery, a bitten apple - nothing more, silent music, one-colored squares, installations of introvert suburban egos, nailing their underpants on the wall, fornicating with dead corpses...uzw). Suddenly the shy interest is there again for old simple questions of art - form, color and message. The message is there of health, survival and functional forms. New deeds of analysis doesn't need dead corpses as Leonardo needed them, now there are the computer models! This is a new tool for the daredevils of design - you don't have, actually, to climb a mountain and rely on Mr.Vincis new leather wings, you can do it on the screen. As in medicine and surgery, you don't need victims to practice on, you can do it on models in computerized 3D and stand by for the real victims well trained and seemingly secure. When art begin to use computer models (still this is done mostly in music) there is this old fundamental risk of forgetting old art forms (the drum, the log, the brushes, the rhymed poetry and the human companions all around) and thus lose contact with "real" art - the living art of totality - why not call it Ars Totale? As Art is absolute fundamental for the materialistic prophets and religious priests (in architecture, in sculptures and pictures, in the mere word of the very beginning), Ars Totale is beginning in the sacred art of long gone civilizations evolving into the profane art of the electronic now and further into the design sector of the modern world, thus splitting into a Babylonian confusion of the beautiful Art and the ugliness of false art of modern modernity.
Ars Totale is of course still the simple business of long and hard studies, often outside the
in-groups of art, where the bombast's and the PR-minded mingle, in the silence of Nature,
in the fields of inner vision and in the peace of the secluded family. |