Thursday, 20 November 2008

Art is the ONLY way to evolve...

This extract from the book Beuys in America helped me understand slightly more

"Here my idea is to declare that art is the only possibility for evolution, the only possibility to change the situation in the world. But then you have to enlarge the idea of art to include the whole creativity. And if you do that, it follows logically that every living being is an artist - an artist in the sense that he can develop his own capacity. And therefore it's necessary  at first that society cares about the educational system, that equality of opportunity for self realization is guaranteed."

I also agree that, it is no right that the politicians and the managers of economic powers control the destinies of the majority.

He wanted to increase the definition of art, so that the public at large would understand that art is more than just painting, sculpture etc, but that its creativity as a whole. I am interested in raising awareness about this, perhaps some posters could be produced? Keep thinking...

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