tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20588196.post114158309893244102..comments2023-06-14T07:49:15.087-04:00Comments on Artdeal Magazine: Love&Art on Bow StreetAddison Parkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17761481663107145487noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20588196.post-1142689896936381172006-03-18T08:51:00.000-05:002006-03-18T08:51:00.000-05:00wVery often the image of artist as selfish and sel...wVery often the image of artist as selfish and self indulgent is in in fact the creation of the group.It becomes their antipode and antidote because the group needs to think that someone somewhere there is an individual who can get way with what they could never get away with .Since the group must passively submit to the whim of whatever motivates the group,(group think?)change tack with changing moods and styles of society,they look to the artist as the footdragging badass,the same way Americas white youth who have to submit more and more tests and demands from the group are attracted to gangster rap and hip hop.We had our Westerns where we vicariously imagined ourselves roaming wideopen spaces so different from our little suburban plots.Now we glorify the criminal in a world where the ID reigns supreme and is in constant conflict with others. The art world creates the the self-absorbed,dissolute artist and the collector buys into it.They are selling a product to the rich collector. An alter ego a world that they will never ever get close to except by buying a souvenir from it. So we forget that the best artists were full of gratitude and painfully aware that they were already born into a world of influence and in order to be more than just their neighbourhood,they absorbed the tradition.But if the group wants the artist to be what they cant,to be selfish and self indulgent, then the real artist has to resist that role if they want to have a long and creative life in art.Hey there is always a dealer who will market that persona.How many young artist buy into it and are bought out by the dealers and then cant break out of the role that is imposed on them. The opposite of gratitude is paranoia.Paranoia has the inidividual seeing the other as a threat to their integrity,.I've know a few "borderline personalities" a new term from the psychiatric community that describes paranoids who see everybody else as a problem.Now to shore up their identity such people are told to make themselve less permeable and less influenceable which of course exacerbates the problem.Everything is them or not them,and in the end it is always about them.It is never dynamic where you accept fluid borders,earn to adapt and learn and grow.<BR/><BR/>So our culture does not want artists full of gratitude but paranoid chaos sowing boderline types.By the way these people are horribly stuck and do not grow.They repeat the same games and get sicker and sicker.They can be very interesting but thier lives are hell. Look to nature it is all about growth and openness.Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.com