In Defense of Visual Art
By Carsin Ablon
Artists, according to the earliest of human kind in which we
have record of, were known as silent communicators or creators: an artist fuses
and manipulates both of these forms of comprehension. For the artist is not
only a historian and a documenter of occurrences, but the artist conceptualizes
all ideas of the most abandoned corners
of the mind, expressing, uncovering and revealing crystal from a layer of
stone. Artists, by no means remain the only form of early communication, nor
are they scientists, who understand even the unobserved, as to be a scientist
or modern communicator comes with a sense of logic and purpose which art survives
without. An artist depicts the development of human thought; showing the timeline
of the past and paving way for the future. The marks of a brush or material of
a sculpture expresses an aesthetic through development, showing lifestyles and
fashion, all within a finite and tangible work; continuously observable without
context are the works of Bourgeois or Grotjahn, which ask only for instinctual
reaction without knowledge. The sounds of music, the movement of dance, and the
ability to comprehend text all remain temporary and dependent on human
continuation in the way that a piece of art does not rely on to simply exist.
Aestheticism, design, color, form, concept, and story are
only a few of the components and elements of art that are individually explored;
however until all elements and functions of artistic perception united in a
cohesive form is art achieved. Art balances and varies all existing elements of
experience differently to create new genres, all of which pull from a mass gene
pool like the varying of species all of which can instinctively connect to the
tissue of man. The man’s tool of looking seeks the rare and the stimulating simultaneously
and naturally thus birthing the need for art, which has created design, created
craft, and created a standard of experimentation of thought, all of which
influence the renewable resource which is a lucid, ephemeral shapelessness beast
that nests in the thoughts of mankind. For art is an ever-expanding mine
containing unknown, yet discover-able substance that can be portrayed only by a discoverer;
while all notes, all words, and all movements can only be produced in so many
finite forms before becoming unoriginal. The artist is a transmitter, which sends
thought as a natural data which each computing mind can process and experience infinitely…
Artists are the makers of the undefined; the theorists that
rely not on fact, but on idea ; the never-ending source of creation, the
recorder of the newly conceived, and worry not about purpose; but simply on existence.
Artists are the expediters of the unknown mind.
