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From: Fons
Date: 09 Mar 2000
Time: 12:08:20
Remote Name: hercules.cuci.nl
is modern art fading away since 1960?
in the last 40 years many museums of modern art have been build in many countries across the whole world, and never were so many books published about art.Was the effect of this enthusiasm also as much accelerating in the quality of the living modern art, comparing to the first 60 years of the 20th century?
Has contemporary art become history and has the challenge of art taken over by electronic technics?
Or is the concept of creating new and original images becoming a neglected virtue? I don't know who invented the new-ism during the last century, but it seems obvious to me that in the last 30 years the inovatic aspect of art was the central issue of artdiscussion. Once there were times art did not need to be innovative. My question is: are we returning to such an era or are we just tired of the new?
Or has the vision of art, in spite of all interference of art managers and art educaters failed and did their sympathetic additude in the last 40 years no good to the actual spirit of art? Do artists need opposition rather than support, or is this another fairy tale of our time?
Do artists wish to change the world? Or do they recreate the real world only into one, which has a dubious relation to the real one? Is there hope after Bill Clinton and Boris Yelsin?