With Art, There is No Limit
On the plane over to London I had the pleasure of meeting an artist from Bombei (sp?), India. He has been a sculptor almost his whole life and had spent the last few months in Denver, CO for a Marble Symposium. It was great getting to know about him and his passion for sculpture. He has worked with various materials including fiberglass, wood, and stone. His work mainly expresses a combination of forms, including abstractions of the human form. My sister and I were fascinated to hear how this contemporary Indian artist's work so greatly contrasts that of his predecessors. He admitted to me that even in his own time his work has changed and progressed quite a bit. "With art, there is not limit," he told me. I wonder if his statment is true. It makes sense considering how earnestly some artists work to use new materials and new methods. But there are other artists who seem to find their niche in one subject matter or one material, and who can be content and confident in that one thing. (Take George Segal, for example). What is art if it has a limit? What is art if it does not?
posted by Amber Lee at 10:52 PM
2 Comments:
Well, if creating art is working out a part of our being made in the image of God, who is infinite... then maybe art has no limit.
Or, conversely, maybe art is unlimited in that we will never cease to find new expressions of our experience of Existence. But in a different way, it is limited because human beings, both artwork and artist, are limited. What do you think?
Certainly, I think that people are complex. We don't want to imagine that there could be a limit to how we express ourselves. I think creativity pushes us beyond the limits. It seems like creativity pushes us beyond what already exists. Thus artists are always trying new methods, new materials, etc.
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