“Don't lose
your head.”
Hanging out
with CJ today. We're thinking about going door to door making people
offers they can't refuse.
The Detached
Artist
“So what
inspired you to make this piece?” an art critic asked.
“People like
houses. So I made a landscape with a house on it. Thought it would
sell,” Walden hated that question. He hated the interviews with
people, though he knew he should be grateful for his success. The
statement he just made was taken in different ways by the art
community. Most thought it was sarcasm. Some thought he was trying to
be secretly deep and was hinting at a deep metaphor in the art or
something. He always gave these kinds of answers and that's what the
art community looked for in a man with talent like Walden, meaning
and power in the art.
But the
statement was a literal as could be. So much of art embodied
self-expression, yet Walden's had none. Many normal people put their
souls in their art. He put none of it. He pieces were soulless. He
created them like a robot following a program, with instinct instead
of thought. People working on pieces on commission who put honest
work into their pieces put emotion into them. While he did art he
didn't think a thought beyond the brush and he didn't care for the
thoughts at the brush.
One painting
Walden did was of a man smiling. People saw the joy of the smile in
Walden's craft and skill, but what wowed the art community was an
emotion they felt but couldn't place while looking at the piece. The
reason they couldn't figure out the emotion that fascinated them was
that it was a lack of emotion. They felt the void of feeling of
Walden. The fact he didn't care at all about his painting meant the
only thing he could express in his art was nothing.
No comments:
Post a Comment