I read this in stead of watching the lecture because I am being quiet, it's raining outside. This was a really enjoyable to read. I know female artists who have expressed something similar because so many artists are doing something political- seeing their favourite landscape artist change to do things political makes people ask what we all might ne missing out on because of the politicization of everything, including art.
This is a wonderful lecture and it clarifies something I've been pondering for years. The rhetoric around so much "political art," like so much rhetoric right now, denies the role of the individual and the reality of individuality, so off-handedly and defensively. Here is a quote from the filmmaker Lina Wertmuller that will interest you: "We are directors, not female directors. It doesn’t make sense to me to mark differences between men and women filmmakers. The question is to make good movies. I always say that a good writer should be able to identify with all the different characters he or she may create. We should always remember Flaubert’s provocation: 'Madame Bovary, c’est moi.'”
I read this in stead of watching the lecture because I am being quiet, it's raining outside. This was a really enjoyable to read. I know female artists who have expressed something similar because so many artists are doing something political- seeing their favourite landscape artist change to do things political makes people ask what we all might ne missing out on because of the politicization of everything, including art.
That is a great part of the tragedy -- what could have been, squandered talent.
This is a wonderful lecture and it clarifies something I've been pondering for years. The rhetoric around so much "political art," like so much rhetoric right now, denies the role of the individual and the reality of individuality, so off-handedly and defensively. Here is a quote from the filmmaker Lina Wertmuller that will interest you: "We are directors, not female directors. It doesn’t make sense to me to mark differences between men and women filmmakers. The question is to make good movies. I always say that a good writer should be able to identify with all the different characters he or she may create. We should always remember Flaubert’s provocation: 'Madame Bovary, c’est moi.'”
That's a great quote! Thank you
Appreciated your thoughts on this subject. Thanks for posting.
The beauty of the art reflects the beauty of the inner (and sometimes outer) beauty of the artist.
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