http://newbloodart.com/blog Thu, 10 May 2012 18:33:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://newbloodart.com/blog/in-the-beginning-god-created-blogs-8/ http://newbloodart.com/blog/in-the-beginning-god-created-blogs-8/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:30:11 +0000 Iain Andrews http://newbloodart.com/blog/?p=437 This is the first time I’ve attempted blogging. I’m somewhat of a Luddite at heart and so this is a rather different experience for me – as an artist I work quite traditionally using paint on canvas, and in my other role ( I also work as an Arts Psychotherapist with children who self harm) the world of technology plays a very minor role too. But the new blood site has been good to me and I’ve been both encouraged and slightly bemused to see my work being sold to people I’ve never met and probably never will. Strange how my only encounter with them may well be through my artwork. Which got me thinking about some of the children I have seen today at work, and how much power images have to convey all that ‘stuff’ that you cannot put into words. Wittgenstein said that what can’t be spoken about must be passed over in silence, which I mostly agree with, and yet if in the passing over an image is made then the silence has a very different quality to it than that of isolation and muteness. There’s a dialogue that takes place beyond words, and its in this realm that we wonder as artists.
I’m busy at he moment preparing for a lecture that I’m going to be giving at the University of Wales next week on ‘good’ and ‘bad’ art. A very emotive subject, and one that is sure to generate strong opinions, is there such a thing as good or bad art or is it all just a matter of individual opinion. I’m arguing for the distinction between the two, that, rather like good wine, the beauty of a piece of work has nothing to do with the opinions of the beholder, and everything to do with the quality, or lack of it, inherent in the work itself. We’ll see how that goes down.
I’m going to attempt to blog fortnightly, but I don’t want to assume that what I have to say will be of any interest to anyone, so that may well be revised! It will also depend upon time commitments -we’ll see what happens.

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