Emerging Art: "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls"

  Emerging Art  

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls"

 - Pablo Picasso

It is reverse, art is moving back;

     life, like art, is burdened

with aimless schools evolving,

     seemingly without end.

Search goes on, we call abstract,

     avant-garde* if you wish,

for the daring adventurer at large,

     for what many artists miss.

Yet, colors are but symbols of life,

     back to primary brings out

simplicity, the basics to cling on,  

     after all, what is art about? 

                - avrotor

Photographed July 11, 2023 by Dr Abe V Rotor

Mural paintings on the hallway of the Brisbane International Airport, Australia 

“Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.” 

~ Anton Chekhov

"Art is never finished. Only abandoned." —Leonardo da Vinci

"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with." - Golda Meir

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public." Paul Gauguin

"A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others."

 —Salvador Dalí

 

"Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.” 

~ Valerie Cruz

"I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words."

 - Andrea Bocelli

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." - Pablo Picasso

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." —Vincent van Gogh

"It isn’t until the painter has no idea what he’s doing that he makes good paintings." —Edgar Degas

*Avant-garde - In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde identifies a genre of art, an experimental work of art, and the experimental artist who created the work of art, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time. Wikipedia