Kate Baggott: What Art Means to Me
Kate Baggott from Babylune shares what art means to her as part of the Guest post contest here at Artist Hideout:
A character in a story I once wrote, says, “The world is not a beautiful place, you have to work to be beautiful in it.”
The character lives on the same planet as the rest of us. It is, maybe, a place that we experience one way and see another way depending on the amount of news media we consume.
Art, in all its forms, makes me reconsider that gap between what I live and what I — whether consciously or not — just judge. Or dismiss.
And I do mean the AIDS epidemic in Africa, the deaths of countless Iraqi civilians, the returning coffins of soldiers to their native soil, brainwashed suicide bombers and the countless global tragedies that march on around us with only a reaction of accepted powerlessness that is the dulling and numbing of human culture.
Art lets me see something else, something other than human self-destruction. Instead, art shows me the individual and the collective creation of a person, of a people, runs contrary to the dulling, the numbing of us.
I don’t think I react to art. Instead, I reconsider.
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11 opinions for Kate Baggott: What Art Means to Me
Kate
Aug 23, 2007 at 7:10 am
Thanks William, I appreciate being posted on your blog. Could you please correct the spelling of my last name? It has two Ts as well as two Gs.
Michele
Aug 23, 2007 at 9:24 am
Are you saying that when you see art, is shows you the better side of humanity? Is there any particular painting or other piece of art that you feel particularly illustrates your point?
Of course, when you started talking about all the problems of the world, I thought of art that points to some of these problems…. such as Picasso’s Guernica about the horrors of the Spanish civil war.
LeAnna
Aug 23, 2007 at 12:22 pm
For me, it is an escape from life, life both mundane or horrifying or whatever. It is a place away from this world.
Dawne
Aug 23, 2007 at 2:27 pm
World Evils vs. Individual Creatism. It is so easy for us to gloss over the insanity in the world, for our own sanity, the everyday. I believe, even when morbid, art is optimistic. There has to be enthusiasm for the artist to be able to create. We can feel that enthusiasm, again, even when morbid. It is a wonderful retreat.
Julia
Aug 23, 2007 at 7:24 pm
You say “art shows me the individual and the collective creation of a person, of a people, runs contrary to the dulling, the numbing of us.” I agree that art can reflect the human race in a way that builds our understanding, and challenges our minds.
Janice
Aug 24, 2007 at 3:57 am
Art is observation and interpretation. It is how someone sees the world. much like writing in fact. Is it just another way we try to mark our passage? I’ll have to think about that one.
Cecilia
Aug 24, 2007 at 8:13 am
So, does that mean that you’re always looking at what’s wrong in the world, unless you’re seeing it through the lense of art?
Kerri
Aug 29, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Ah! I so meant to get in on this contest. Bah. Life has not cooperated. But I hope you get it, Kate! I enjoyed reading your take on art. Makes me think more about it’s purpose in my own life.
Jennifer
Aug 30, 2007 at 1:59 pm
So, a comment here is a vote for Kate correct? Good. I like her take on art. I enjoyed her whole post and agree; I think art does make one reconsider, and imagine, and think other things are possible… Lots of stuff. How much and what we view does affect our world view. Good job Kate :)
kelllys
Sep 5, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Hope this isn’t too late to count for you, Kate. I wish I had more time to devote to art. I love being creative with crafts.
And the Winner is….
Sep 5, 2007 at 7:48 pm
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