PHILOSOPHY IN ART
You might think that art is just another trade or that it is a pursuit that needs no explaining. As an artist I can tell you that everything created as art has a reason behind it. Just as in life, some of those reasons are good but some are not necessarily wholesome.
Having been trained for a short time in movie art (story-boarding especially) the instructor from Warner Brothers made it very clear that even the cartoons that you think are so cute or funny or action like always have a political, religious or moral direction to their purpose. I will not go into that here but if you investigate what is behind the cartoons you will see that they are anything but simple in content. Most young artist don't understand this since they are infatuated by the visual part of drawing and until they get into the story writing part, they completely miss this part.
The painting you see above is from an experience that I had in grammar school which I will never forget. It was the first day of a newly legislated California law that said that if a child or the parents wanted to have a religious class in their school that it would be provided by parents in close proximity to the school. In this case I was escorted into a garage just across the street from the school. We were seated at benches that paralleled the walls of the garage.
As Catholics we were to be educated in the Baltimore Catechism of the day. But it didn't take more than a few minutes when the nun who was teaching the class asked the first question from this book: "Why did God make us?". At that moment of the question I felt a ringing in my heart and a vision of something like the picture above. Only in looking back as an adult can I now see the logic of this simultaneous occurrence. I had nothing in my young pea brain that could have caused such an experience. The nun hadn't yet communicated enough to generate any kind of response. I wasn't even listening to her voice after the initial question. I had no knowledge of the 23 Psalm and it was not even mentioned.
Since that experience, which didn't include art as the vision, I have had an abiding interest in promoting the gospel. But that interest turned into creating art with that subject when I became aware that I had art talent.
but what about those who have had other experiences?
I know after watching many Hollywood movies that the prime motivation and philosophy in those movies is "get evenism". That's Bugs Bunnies prime motivation, and in all of Arnold Shwartznegger movies getting even is the main subject. Multitudes of animators and movie makers have been raised to this view of what good writing is all about. I know this because it was stated in the class by one who lived by it.
And those who have lived lives of debauchery as some modern Hollywood producers have, I know from experience in the classroom at a most prestigious art school that two of the instructors were encouraging the students to live the same kind of lives that they were living; lives of debauchery. And they even made glowing examples of the artists who lived that way. Look at some of the visual media where children are made to be sexual creatures. Many of these were produced by a Producer director who had to flee the states because of his escapades with children.
from studying the history of art you will see that this has always been the case One can only produce that which he knows or what his interests are. If an artists emotional experiences are that he has rejected that there is such a thing as truth or goodness or beauty, you are going to wind up with an art philosophy such as Da Da. If you don't know what it is, most art history books may have a short treatise on it.
Having been trained for a short time in movie art (story-boarding especially) the instructor from Warner Brothers made it very clear that even the cartoons that you think are so cute or funny or action like always have a political, religious or moral direction to their purpose. I will not go into that here but if you investigate what is behind the cartoons you will see that they are anything but simple in content. Most young artist don't understand this since they are infatuated by the visual part of drawing and until they get into the story writing part, they completely miss this part.
The painting you see above is from an experience that I had in grammar school which I will never forget. It was the first day of a newly legislated California law that said that if a child or the parents wanted to have a religious class in their school that it would be provided by parents in close proximity to the school. In this case I was escorted into a garage just across the street from the school. We were seated at benches that paralleled the walls of the garage.
As Catholics we were to be educated in the Baltimore Catechism of the day. But it didn't take more than a few minutes when the nun who was teaching the class asked the first question from this book: "Why did God make us?". At that moment of the question I felt a ringing in my heart and a vision of something like the picture above. Only in looking back as an adult can I now see the logic of this simultaneous occurrence. I had nothing in my young pea brain that could have caused such an experience. The nun hadn't yet communicated enough to generate any kind of response. I wasn't even listening to her voice after the initial question. I had no knowledge of the 23 Psalm and it was not even mentioned.
Since that experience, which didn't include art as the vision, I have had an abiding interest in promoting the gospel. But that interest turned into creating art with that subject when I became aware that I had art talent.
but what about those who have had other experiences?
I know after watching many Hollywood movies that the prime motivation and philosophy in those movies is "get evenism". That's Bugs Bunnies prime motivation, and in all of Arnold Shwartznegger movies getting even is the main subject. Multitudes of animators and movie makers have been raised to this view of what good writing is all about. I know this because it was stated in the class by one who lived by it.
And those who have lived lives of debauchery as some modern Hollywood producers have, I know from experience in the classroom at a most prestigious art school that two of the instructors were encouraging the students to live the same kind of lives that they were living; lives of debauchery. And they even made glowing examples of the artists who lived that way. Look at some of the visual media where children are made to be sexual creatures. Many of these were produced by a Producer director who had to flee the states because of his escapades with children.
from studying the history of art you will see that this has always been the case One can only produce that which he knows or what his interests are. If an artists emotional experiences are that he has rejected that there is such a thing as truth or goodness or beauty, you are going to wind up with an art philosophy such as Da Da. If you don't know what it is, most art history books may have a short treatise on it.