Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Right to Expression... multiple expressions

Expression is energy.

It is a sign of life shown in so many ways.
Art, music, language, performance, gesture, fashion 
are just some expression forms.

Marilyn: a portrait of facial expression.

I declare the Right to Expression,
which is an 'umbrella' right for so many Expression rights, such as:

Freedom of Expression makes us healthy,
and it allows each of us the possibility to make
 our unique, individual souls shine outward.
One could even say that it is the portrait of a kind of biodiversity.

Freedom of Expression should be its own separate right.
In the United States, Freedom of Expression is often stated as being
part of the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights,
but the actual text does not even mention the word 'expression.'


Revision: thanks to commenters Chuck F., GIM, RR, DS

Sunday, February 6, 2011

The Right to Expression... Art

If you can't define art, can you make a right for it?

Philosophers throughout history have defined art differently: 
Plato says in the Republic that the arts are representational, or mimetic copies,
Gadamer defines art as the "experience of meaning",
Croce as "expression,"
and Adorno as "social" representation.

Some have said art cannot be defined:
Wittgenstein didn't believe in a definition of art,
saying that the definition itself would stifle artistic creativity.

Artist Andy Warhol thought art was life itself.

Without coming up with an definitive answer to What is Art?,
I declare The Right to Art.

How do you define Art?