The Art World is in Crisis — Here’s Why
How we stopped looking at art for what it really was and why it matters.
It is difficult to define what art is or is not. While everyone is able to tell what he or she likes, it is much harder to define with words what is “art”. We have different images going through or head when we think of the word “art”: paintings, sculpture, music, expressiveness of the body such as in dance, theatre, architecture, films and other performing arts, writing. It is defined as the ensemble of human creative skills. But what is creative? Maybe it is a facility to come up in our mind with something that does not exist and being able to exteriorize it for other people to be able to experience it themselves. Through this experience the person acquires a different understanding of humanity, the world, enhances so to speak, allowing him to further his/her impact on the future of society.
The crisis I’m talking about is not so much about the Art itself. There are always philosophers, thinkers, or simply people wanting to express their inner self — therefore there is always new interesting art.
I am talking about how art is perceived, and how it influences people not on their daily life but also how it shapes ways of thinking and train of thoughts.
