Can art be only recognized by its context or are you able to identify it in any circumstance? I am asking you this because Paul from Austria, that comes often to my blog, raised this question last week quoting an experience that the Washington post made with the violinist Joshua Bell in the subway in Washington D.C.
You can read the story here.
I am looking forward to your opinion.
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If you are conscious, in the moment, I truly think yes- you also have to trust yourself, and then of course what is art……………..a bigger question
Art is like a set of facts or/and circumstances that evolve to a product.
By nature or by man…
Take the product out of its context the viewer is alone and are free to put what the viewer wants to put into it….freely
The new view(facts/circumstance) can evolve and maybe make new perspective…and new products….evolution is an art and its working…or what do you think?
Real Art is pure expression of Genius. It’s not context that decides what it is, or what is not art. All critics should know that.
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Increíble, pensé que un monton de gente se dentendría y sinembargo sólo unos pocos se pararon para escuchar.
Lo que si se comprueba que Bell recibe una lección ya que aprecia cualquier mirada auque sea de reojo.
De todas formas la música en la calle y en el metro es una buena idea, llena los espacios de armonía, no importa que sean muy buenos músicos.
Hace poco los cantantes como Ana Belén y Victor Manuel, Savina y otros realizaron una experiencia de cantar y tocar sus canciones en el metro de Madrid. Creo que es una idea fantástica.
The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, Vincent van Gogh, September 1888 will always be a true feature within the world of art. This is because it is neatly tucked away within the archives of our minds, seeing the image as children, as teenagers, and we see it with our own eyes in the museum as adults.
A wise man once told me that everything is context, context, context. And he was right. Music has many different angles, I understand of recent how it moves and what the inner mathematics of the notes hope to invoke within, along with how the notes are played. But if you sit with a room of people who have not even the time to listen to their hearts how dose one expect them to know that Four Seasons by Vivaldi, really is about the four seasons and really sounds like the four seasons when played?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdFHJXciAQ&feature=related
Yes i did make a the art.
Several years I was lucky enough to see a ‘Queen of the Night’, which is the blossom of a cactus, it blossoms once a year for one night only. It is incredible, pure white, with an exquisite scent. I sat and watched it bloom alone while others slept. No one would witness it, I was just lucky. But did it make it any less beautiful if it wasn’t witnessed. Did there have to be an audience to acknowledge its beauty, for it to be beautiful.
Thank you Paulo, and Paul of Austria for sharing the article, I found it very interesting.
I do not believe that context MAKES art. However Context does influence the ability to live in the moment and Appreciate Art. Our concept of the significance of measured time dictates how we accept or reject the wonderful gifts of the universe such as Bell playing his violin in L’Enfant Metro station. I feel sad for our country and our culture that is so enslaved by clocks and societal norms for material success that small children are pulled away from pure beauty. I am sure I am a mother who was guilty of that when rushing to work with small children by the hand. Maslow’s heriarchy of needs has food clothing shelter as our basic concerns. Getting to work on time is part and parcel of the drive to assure that those basic needs in modern western urban culture.
I would hope that had I been a mother with a child in tow running late I would have noticed the strain to stay and listen and paused to let my child’s soul be filled with beauty. In all honesty I would probably have hurried my culture hungry offspring on as did the other mothers with more tasks than time.
This article raises an even more significant question: What changes can we make and how do we begin to make them to change this phenomenon? We all know we are to stop in smell the roses along the path and that it is the journey not the goal that is important? How do we imbue our children and future generations with a greater sense of being in the moment and appreciating beauty and art as it happens? What catalyst is needed? What planet shaking paradigm shift do we need to be more present? What is needed to change the context of our daily lives to make room for random moments of the gift of time given to ourselves to appreciate the arts?
There was a time, a magical fall morning, when my teen aged son and I had both overslept. To speed us up I played our favorite big band song. Miraculously, without consciously intending to, we began to dance lindy hop in the kitchen. Midway through the song we both realized we were late. He paused and looked at me anticipating a rushed response to get ready even faster. I think one of the best moments of role modeling was when I said to him: “lets finish the dance, I will write you a note.” We finished the song complete with dip and proceeded to prepare for our day.
What kind of changes do we need to make as a culture to give ourselves permission to be late and write our tardy notes. “Please excuse ___________ for being late to work today he/she was enjoying life.
Can art only be recognized by its context? No. Art can be recognized in any circumstance by the observer who is in tune with the art. In this case some observers heard art because the had an attachment to the instrument. Some recognized the artist by sight and the children, who were not so troubled by the cares of this world, were drawn by the beautiful sound resonating into their hearts. How should we return to our mothers womb and renew our knowledge of her heartbeat.
I think it is very much about how receptive is our soul generally speaking, to benefic stimulus, during the day. People usually had closed ears for selfprotection, but that’s how they may miss benefic influences also.
Context?…Hm. Each one of us has his/her own inner context, transported here and there all day long, to the supermarket, to the office, to different other places. How many of us, when hurry up to work, have 2 seconds to listen to the birds’ songs during spring mornings and relax a bit.
On the other hand, when you know you will go to a concert, you prepare yourself for that and you open to the music, to the armony, to the new shining environment of the hall opera.
But the real receptive souls (that are rare on Earth)have their ears open all the time and they enjoy every piece of benefic influence they meet within their way. They are able to “aspirate” benefic things, to “feed” themselves and take care of their inner health.
Many people still don’t hear their hearts, their souls. So how could they hear anything else…(Izolation, lonliness, misstrust, fear…sociopathy…fear to open up).
of course it does…
It is just like been in the right place!
:D
Well art is like a expression.Smooth and free flowing.You cant contain it or snub it.It has to flow like the wind.
john lochrie
Hi Paulo, I firmly believe that art exists everywhere and in many forms and also that each individual has its own sensibility to recognize it. Context may be important to enhance art’s beauty but it does not makes art what it is. For instance, I love music, dance, painting and poetry but I suspect, without any guilty, that if I was at the Washington metro station that day, I would also pass by Joshua Bell without noticing the greatness of his performance. Even so, I can not say for sure that I would be able to appreciate it even if I was to watch him in a big symphony hall, simply because classical music with violins is not a form of art that I find very appealing. Even the people that do appreciate classical music, they do so in different degrees and different forms. Some will prefer to listen to it very loud, others alone and quietly. Some will cry and others will feel joy. And that is the charm and beauty of art, its capacity to create feelings and emotions inside us and touch our souls in some way whatever the context. I think that the important thing is to be aware that art can be found anywhere, and be open minded to appreciate its beauty when it comes to us. That is the reason that after sending this reply I will google Joshua Bell and its music and check what emotion it will cause me.
“Beauty is in the eye (ear) of the beholder” sort of makes sense in this situation. But it seems to be more affected by the NO TIME issue. No one took time to enjoy or listen to the “art” freely given by a “master”…
Art can be identified in every circumstance, her formes of manifestation are yet enigmatical, because sometimes the contrast between the one that manifest the art and the art itself, as a object that was already consumed, that contrast is to obviously. Therefore art has a free caracter.
Everything is art. Everything. But it’s ALL about the context. Something is art only if it’s placed in the “right” context, or if someone choose to call it – or look upon it as “art”. The world is relative and one just have to choose a way of seeing it. But in the end – defining is to limit oneself.
Olá Paulo,
Sou apenas um estudante de Design Gráfico, não sou um leitor assíduo dos seus livros, li apenas um e agora estou lendo o Mago. Vendo sua historia, muito bem contada pelo Fernando Morais.
Mas depois da biografia (ainda nao terminei), pretendo ler outros livros: 11 minutos (de preferencia).
Fiquei me perguntando, porque nunca escreveste algo infantil? Um livro infantil mesmo para criançar? Ou algo mais jovial, estilo harry potter, pois como vc tem muita experiencia em diversos assuntos(Seita satã, droga, fê…), poderia criar mirabolantes personagens, cenarios, amores, ódios…
Pergunto isso, não porque acho q o q li (valquirias) não seja atraente e com boas historias (pelo contrário, adorei valquirias)mas notei que em todas conversas que tenho sobre vc, ou coisas q leio sobre vc, nunca vejo a palavra “criança” no meio, nem relação a essa etapa da vida.
Por sinal, já pensou em ter filho? Se nao, caso venha ter, já imaginou o que isso pode mudar na sua vida? Como seria?
Desculpa tantas perguntas, apenas fiquei pensativo sobre esse assunto quando comecei a ler O MAGO.
Forte abraço.
Art is beautiful in all sircumstances, but unfortunately we live in sircumstaces where others decide whether it is beautiful or not. We were/are raised under the effect of media which decides for us, this makes us far away from understanding the beauty of even single fallen leaf.
Le contexte pose l’instant au présent , il y a moins d’interférence du passé et du futur : les personnes se concentrent sur l’instant présent lorsqu’un contexte les encadre
la difficile pratique de la vie EST vivre l’instant présent sans interférence du passé et du futur , et des obligations qui étouffent.
il faut pouvoir profiter de l’instant présent chaque jour ( sur mon agenda j’ai écrit , pour me le rappeller = “goûter chaque jour chaque chose avec délice , même les joies les plus simples ”
The context puts the moment in the present, there is less interference of past and of future: the persons concentrates over the present moment when a context frames(supervises) them
The difficult practice of the life IS to live the present moment without interference of past and of future, and obligations which suffocate
It is necessary to be able to take advantage of the present moment every day (on my diary I wrote, for don’t forget = ” taste every day every thing with enjoyment, even the simplest enjoyments “
Ne ,
vous avez dit le mot juste , une certittude pour moi
les enfants vivent dans l’INSTANT PRESENT ( pas dans le futur , pas dans le passé ) et c’est pourquoi ils sont ouvert au monde
carpe diem est ma devise
Ne,
You said the just word, a certittude for me
The children live in an instant PRESENT (not in the future, not in past) and that is why they are opened to the world
Carpe diem is my slogan
Dear Paulo,
„There really is no such a thing as Art. There are only artists.“
Ernst H. Gombrich (art historian)
How do you break this down? My first reaction was “untrained ears”, which led me to “untrained eyes” and back to “Context”?
If you know Parita No2 In D minor then your familiar with “Chaconne” and are probably a Johann Sebastian Bach “fan” which leads nicely to you probably being aware of Joshua Bell who plays a 1710 Stradivari worth an estimated $3.5 million.
If not? “A guy playing a fiddle in the Metro?
What I think I’m trying to say is that one mans “art” maybe another mans lack of perception of that “art” regardless of context?
It is an individual and personal experience using the eye and ear of the beholder regardless of context.
I have an unmade bed but do not stop to appreciate it, but Caravaggio grabs my attention,and there are people who hold the opposite opinion.
I am happy to appreciate what I know pleases me from the comfort of my home thanks to the internet, out of context??
well i liked the experiment that was carried out…..and wished if i was there at the site of the experiment… i am sure….i would have stopped to listen the entire concert…
even though i would have been late to work or whatever…..
if only….
i liked the entire theme behind the xperiment….i have observed i at a very micro level in my daily life as well…
let me narrate my experinces, keeping them quite short…
once i was heading to my class on a cold and chilly morning, i saw an intricate web on the wires lying low on the ground… dew drops adorning it and sunlight illuminating the entire framework… lighting it making it shine like a diadem, i stopped and watched it for few minutes….discussed it with my colleagues….
and something happened that made me wonder….they were discussing it among themselves that only a very strange person like me can stop and find beauty in a cobweb, supposed dirt for them…
infact at times i was ridiculed for this habit of mine… of standing and watching a beautiful bunch emerging out of a bush or a cute puppy crossing my path…to sum it up… watching things which were specimens of natural beauty for me and commonplace for them….
i felt that they were so far removed from the joys which life offers through the hands of mother nature every now and then, if only we stop and care to watch…
i feel that the people who did not notice Joshua Bell were like those colleagues of mine, who are so far removed from the real life that is so beautiful….
they are somehow cutoff from nature…far removed from life rather… it is avery strong statement…
but i feel that it is quite governed by the overall nature or the priorities that people set in life that governs each and every action of theirs….
well context matters , but not that much….this is what i feel…..
beauty is not confined to its frames… it is there all around us, we just have to be receptive enough….. this is what i feel…
I think art is everywhere and in everything. If you take a closer look you’ll see how beautifull things can be. We don’t take the time to appreciate anything nowadays unfortunalty, and it’s so beautifull out there.
I love you Paolo, and have read almost all your books, have a happy new year.
I always think that beauty, be it art or God creations, is every where around us to savour if we just opened our senses. All of us can enjoy them, and most of them are actually for free. Our senses are created as such to easily interpret beauty and harmony around us that will create a beautiful feeling inside.
But the world has changed so much that our senses can no longer cope to be too open to survive. There are overwhelming stimulus, life pressures, suffocating orders and speed that humans need to cope with that slowly but surely change us. As we grow older and as adulthood responsibilities arise we cannot do anything but to pre-select the stimuli that get into our system to avoid chaos. Unintentionally, we then opt to turn ourselves away from beauty because we don’t know how to prioritize, we are confused between what is urgent and what is necessary. As time goes by, we put higher priority on things that ease our lives, rather than things that enrich our lives. Then in the end, we just simply fail to recognize at all.
The metro station experiment presents just that: an overwhelming stimuli combined with time pressures and running minds. I guess, the people that got into the station are just too pre-occupied with what is going to happen next that they forgot about what is going on now. We are always in a hurry of doing the next things we need to do, that we are not fully conscious on what is happening now. Our mind and our body are in separate places. That is why what we sense, hear and see are not being transformed into meaningful and beautiful stimuli, but remain as noises around us.
It is sad. I think we are the only ones that can change this, that’s why one or two people managed to stop and enjoy the beauty around them, regardless of the frame or their own background.
Hope that we are just as lucky as they are.
First,I would like to thank You Paul from Austria and dear Thelma,for the oportunity to find this genious artist Joshua Bell in `you tube`;to hear the beautiful `zigeuner weisen`from Pablo de Sarasate,and sure to descover this amazing social projekt in Metro!
The music ,this beauty,ocupied my consciennce all the weekend!I`ve heard over and over with my family ,many hours the magic of this violin interpret and I was realy very positive surprised to see in the blog today that we can speek about it.
I belive that beauty and art don`t need an context!I think that even that people who never realised to the rushhour in Washington D.C Metro station that a soul try to share the beauty and talent with them,they becamed allready the information of this moments,only with theyr unconscience(with the I think aprox.90% of theyr receptivity they were standing there and enjoy it)!
Nobody can stop the informations net betwen all souls in the Univers ,no mater if they are good or bad!
For example ,I `ve start since few years,to stop read all the bad informations in the newspaper or TV,to trye to recive mostly good ones!Specialy when I was pregnant with Aisha I realised how strong the energy of information can influence my feeligs.But no mater ,I`ve tried ,I could not separate my soul from this net!The answer of this question I´ve becamed in a dream!About that I will speek maybe anothertime !
I am very often met a very special street artist,and often I gaved them money,because I feel like that !They offer some Beauty and I can say thank you like that .For Beauty and Thanks is allways time and place!
You don`t have to be a specialist or proffesional to understand Beauty!But you can have the luck to realise very conscience with that aprox.10% that Beauty whant to make you happy!
On that way I found in 2006 a very good hungarian band coposed of five persons(very good musicians,profesionals) on the street Am Graben,in Vienna ,that I payed to play on my weding.Because this street is a very somptuose one ,nobody seemed to recognize what a greate band is just plaieying for free to the whole passing people(their wordrobe was quite normal,and they looked like hungarian gipsys).I saw it like a present from God and I took the Chance!In the wedding day noone belived me how I found them!And they becamed 2 other angagements!We all enjoyed the party and especially The band was the biggest Atraction!
Love
Mirela(the woman from lift)
Art Is Everywhere.
Why you don’t want to experience more miracles until we can see each other in this world?
Please mail me.
For me also, I like individual people’s art – whether they have talent or not. The same way I like to look at people’s photos. They may not be drawn well or photographed well, but they are that person’s expression, and I like to have a look into the mind and heart.
Kathleen xx
Para mi el arte es las creaciones del corazon , sentimientos plasmados sobre lienzo, musica, esculturas , videos, cualquier trazo hecho con amor es arte para mi, algo plasmado desde el más profundo sentimiento, inspiración , amor, sensibilidad, que llene los corazones , ojos, oidos de los hombres
Gracias querido Paulo, este tema se podria extender mucho más, besos
Con amor
Pilar
Art lies in the eye of the beholder, anybody can (and does, willingly or not) make art – it’s up to the watcher to determine if it should be considered as art.
Take Matisse, is he’s art to valuable because HE thought that HE was a good artist – or is it so because the beholders think so?
Often did I pass a musician by without stopping, even at times when I truly appreciated what he was playing. It was not because I was busy, or even because I was in hurry (even though both were the case), it was because I believe that their music is a gift and I carried it with me for the rest of the day, and it changed my day and the way I experienced life that day. And even though i did not repay him by stopping or giving him money, I believe he will get this gift back by other means, because what you give freely you receive freely.
This reminds me of the email I sent to Paulo in which I was asking why do words seem to need a resonnance in our soul in order to be listen to and understood.
Because context does matter, for words or for art; why do so many artist are so often ignored during the time they are alive and only acclaimed after their death?
Education, surroundings, social background, encourage or discourage our inclination towards art.
Besides, art is a relative notion.
Tastes can be arguable but beauty could be defined by something that is generally accepted by most as pleasant.
It also struck me that children were drawn by the music.
We discussed this over the dinner table with my two children, Victoria, 11, and Adrien 8, it was interesting to hear Adrien say he would have loved to stop to listen to the artist and Victoria said she would have ran, scared of the “beggar”…
Thank you for this subject, we had a great debate, and it made a great alternative to the tv in the background :).
It also, like all Paulo’s thoughts, opened my mind a bit more yet again…
Many kind thoughts.
I think that art is a state of mind. What you think or experience as art depends most of yourself. Some day you can see the whole life as a masterpiece of art, sometimes even Mona Lisa doesn´t convince you as art.
I think life itself is the art of the universe, art of the creator. As the particles of the universe we are art ourselves and as the creators we are artists too. Love, Anna
there are some contests that make art much easier to recognise. there are some soul much sensive than other, that can appreciate art everywhere. like painters, singers in the street. a place (a gallery,m museum, theatre) and the right contest give the possibility to everyone to see, tuch, listen art . if we are enough sensitive.
Hey Paulo,
I believe that Art is not to related to context, unless and when we are dealing with people who are trying to understand the meaning of the “Art presented” to them.
There are two main aspects I see:
One: When we look at an art exhibition(like abstract/modern art), the context of each piece of art is critical. As,in order to appreciate the work we need to know why the art was made, the feeling the flow behind the work. I remember some news channel once did a gallery of abstract art and invited world renowned critics to comment upon the art presented. Many of them criticized and appreciated the works and talked about feelings behind the art and possible meanings and methods used in painting the work. After drawing all their conclusions, it was revealed that most of the paintings were in fact made by 2 and 3 year olds and just 2 were actual “Works of Art”. Obviously the critics just walked away and had no further comments. In these cases, I believe, we need to know the context. I am not undermining the art done by the young ones, as it is also a flow of the innocent mind and must be appreciated.
TWO: Times when where are not in the need of context happens when we are looking at things of breathtaking awesome beauty. Anyone will stand and appreciate. Lets say we are driving and we see a glorious rainbow, we will feel a light within us, appreciating it in our hearts, thanking the Lord for such beauty. It can also be a work of classical art, portraits, sketches which may be replications of nature but nevertheless is beauty caught in a “Work of Art”.
:D
Love,
Rashmi
Dear Paulo,
Art can be one of the most interesting and exciting expeariances, if you are openminded. And if you had made many of these expeariances, you may be able to recognize art in an another (may be a banal) context as something special, and than it is not so important, which words we choose for it, because it touches your heart and/or your mind.
For example: In the city, where I live, there is a shop of Louis Vuitton. When I walk through this street, I took time to look in these really amazing two shop-windows. They are not bigger than others, but I felt always there must be something special. I love what I see and sometimes I took a picture. So what was to see there? The first time, there was a great very beautiful reflector in front of a dark background. The second time the background was yellow with many (silver) security cameras, which are watching only one single Vouitton bag. The third time the background was transformed in a mirror with many crystal balls hanging all over the window. And sometimes I also heard some people say: “Oh, what a beautiful window”. Later when I looked into a book about the famous artist Olafur Eliasson I recognized, that the amazing reflector was made by him for Vuitton.
So… Sometimes it is possible.
All the best,
Eva
Estimado Paulo:
Excelentes líneas e impresionante la capacidad de transportar a tus lectores al mundo que estás imaginando… felicidades para este 2009.
Un abrazo
Ah, agree with Annie. Once in the summer I have funny situation. In 04:OO Pm in morning I went out and feel the rain… I spread hands and stayed like that 10 – 15 minutes… and then I heard from behind my friend saying(we have party in friends house):,,We all have personal worms in head.” Then I told him the spontaneous phrase:,, Yes, if we have worms in head , then my worms is beautiful!” :) If context make art? Context can be everything… our experience, nature, moments…
well, i think art is contextual definitely, though not without a ‘but’…art is created in a context, art is appreciated in a context…sometimes they match, sometimes they dont…well, classics, as we tend to say, go beyond ‘contexts’…but the process of going beyond is itself contextual…
I would like to quote Sherry as above: “The artist does not need a context to create, but perhaps the observer needs the context to perceive.”
Now, if we take this to the “Filling the other´s cup” story and the giving and receiving issue brought up for discussion today, would we be able to say that art, or life itself, exists regardless of the observer? I don´t think so.
There is a place and a time for everything, from art to living and Schaleen also has a strong point in suggesting the experiment to take place elsewhere. Having the finnest violinist play during rush hour to people passing by isn´t the same as throwing pearls to the pigs?
All the best,
Hernan
Art can touch your soul in any context but for this the soul needs to be open like new born children who are pure and have open minds as they do not live in the future or past but only experience the present time. A subway station is filled with people living in the future and past. I take the subway every day and you can read each face as they are scrolling down on their to do lists or digesting yesterday evenings experiences. To hear, feel, touch art in this state is hard and to have art that is able to snap people out of this state of mind is rare and close to divine.
cheers Do
it looks as it is
Sorry…my message came out twice…I have this new machine and we don´t play well together yet…:-/ Hope there won´t appear anymore of that same writing… I also did remember the time wrong…people were rushing to work or school etc… not home. But the idea is never the less same, one can hear but maybe has not the courage or will to take a moment and really listen. Leave the routine.
Love, Päivi
Thelma ,
profonde émotion en vous lisant …
émotion vécue et étonnement de cet homme :
je formule l’espoir qu’il garde l’espoir de continuer si 1 Thelma lui a redonné le courage de poursuivre
Thanks
soyons les “thelma” et encore et encore
THELMA,
Profound emotion by reading to you…
Lived emotion and surprise of this man:
I formulate the hope that it keeps the hope to continue if 1 Thelma restored him the courage to pursue
Thanks
Let us be the “thelma” and still and still
Does context make art? – Certainly, context can give you perspective. A proud mother certainly appreciates and sees the beauty in her five year olds depiction of his family, (cat and dog included).
How about repeating the experiment in a popular public park, on a Sunday afternoon, when people have the choice on how to spend their private time? Maybe a bright sunny day, a mild breeze that carries the sound of music, even the classically uneducated such as myself will stop awhile and listen.
paulo ,
dès l’enfance on inculque des “peurs” aux enfants qui les gardent en eux adulte et les emprisonnent , les limitent
qu’en pensez-vous ?
+ serions-nous différent si la société était différente …
PAULO ,
From the childhood we inculcate “fears” to the children who keep them in them an adult and imprison them, limit them
Of what do you think of it?
+ We would be different if the company(society) was different…..
Yes, but the context that ‘makes’ art is within the individual, not what surrounds or is before the audience.
We see (hear) things not as they are, but as we are–Kant (Anais Nin, etc)
It may well be expected that in certain environments the minds/hearts of the individuals may be ‘tuned’ to certain concerns/focus, and therefore open to messages of specific format or nature. So, I guess then the question for the violinist would be whether he/she wished to create art, or have a productive communication with the audience for the purpose of bringing them into a charitable mood. If the latter is the interest, then one would need to speak the language that matches the tuning of the audience’s mind at that time.
blessings to you all, and all you hold dear,
CG
Well, I´ve always had a big problem with art. I thought I never understood art,I could not feel the “right” feeling by looking the famous paintings or reading the books from the most famous authors. I do not like opera and I do not understand jazz. I have been always ashamed for that. I was born in a small village in Slovak Republic, none of my parents or relatives are interested in art. My dream was became the journalist. When I have started my studium in Bratislava, our capital city, we attended a lot of art exhibitions and had to write a notice on them. I never got good mark, the teacher said they were unprofessional, not good enough. So it seems I just do not have the art feeling. But, I think I enjoy art in a different way. Maybe it is not right way, but I connect art with certain moments in my life. I remember exactly what I did feel when I read certain books or listend certain songs. So, for me, art is always connected with feelings, emotions, situations I am in certain moments.
Alexandra ,
vous avez eu la chance d’étudier en classe de littérature et d’avoir une ouverture d’esprit sur la poésie , la lecture …
mais combien d’enfants , à l’école , doivent se taire , écouter , apprendre derrière leur chaise bien sage ; et ne pas échanger …
j’ai eu la chance de participer à une “étude expérimentale” en france : 2 classes avaient été sélectionnées , nous faisions le même programme mais DIFFEREMMENT ( ainsi j’ai étudié la peinture en cours d’allemand , les films en anglais , la topographie en géographie – et même l’orientation avec boussole dans les bois , les cours de photographie et reportage avec les professeurs et exposés pour les cours de français … etc …et nous parlions , nous existions )
la vision des choses différente , commence par un enseignement différent , et une ouverture d’esprit
= cela s’apprend ( et à tout âge )
Alexandra,
You had the chance to study in class of literature and to have an open-mindedness on the poetry, the reading…
But how many children, at the school, have to keep silent, listen to, learn behind their very wise chair; and do not exchange…
I had the chance to participate in a ” experimental study ” in France: 2 classes had been selected, we made the same program but DIFFERENTLY (so I studied the paint(painting) in the German class, the films in English, the topography in geography – and even the orientation with compass in wood ,The course of photography and reportage with the professors and the statements for French class …etc… and we spoke, we existed)
The different vision of things, begins with a different education(teaching), and an open-mindedness
= It learns (and at any age)
……..but what the meaning ofcotext?????help!!!
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