Can you identify for me a work of visual art that, in an essential way, tells us what it meant to be human in the 20th century? I've often asked myself this question. I've seen much work that talks about being a human or being inhuman or struggling with meaningless or being lost in empty spectacle. But I really don't have an answer and feel I don't know enough to answer.
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- Gary
- I've taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati for 30 years. My way to art was a bit out of the ordinary. BS, Tulane University in Mathematics and Chemistry, ready to start a dissertion in mathematics at U. of Notre Dame. Dropped out to teach at a small college in E.Kentucky. Then BS in fine art from U. of New Orleans and MFA, Drawing, U. of Cincinnati. So the study of art is less the basis of my art-making than a solid liberal arts approach to the world.
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I think the answer has always been the same only the environment surrounding it has altered over time. I think it's always been about trying to understand why and how we are the way we are. What it means to be human is really a question of-what does it mean to be human? The question has been asked in several different contexts. What does it mean to be human in the eyes of God and religion? What does it mean in the age of machine? In a world of war? In a world of materialism? In a world where we have no God?
It's always going back to asking ourselves how we deal with and exist in the current world we live in. How we maintain a voice of meaning when it seems that everything around us is becoming meaningless. Maybe as we are asking we are simultaneously trying to define. I'll find some art to back this up.
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