In Defense of Visual Art

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.