I don’t really care about the intentions of an artist when I look at his or her work. I believe the only thing that is relevant when observing a work of art is the content/form and how it relates to its context.
2010 11 29
I don’t really care about the intentions of an artist when I look at his or her work. I believe the only thing that is relevant when observing a work of art is the content/form and how it relates to its context.
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I totally agree. On the other hand it can be very interesting to follow an artists development and his or her changing intentions.
Absolutely. Following the intentions can be very, very interesting, but I prefer to view them separately from the artwork. Hoever: If the intention is clearly stated in connection with the work it should probably be seen as a part of the work itself, and, in that way it will become relevant…Especially since I don’t really believe that a stated intention is the same as the “real” intention of the artist. One can only guess at the complex interactions going on in an artist’s mind before creating a work. Most of these processes are probably not even available to the artists themselves… It follows then, that whatever an artist declare to be the intention of the work is a construct in the same way as the work itself (and can, then, be viewed as belonging to the same complex of manifest phenomena: Stuff that we can talk about, in other words…)
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