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| Matthew G. Beall after a day at the art fair - self-portrait 2011 |
Like any other European city, Basel has it's share of old buildings.
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| Matthew G. Beall Basel City Hall 2011 |
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Monday, June 20, 2011
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While at Art Basel 42
I was at Art Basel 42 from June 17 - 19 in Basel, Switzerland. I tell ya, walking around an art fair for two days can really make you tired.
Like any other European city, Basel has it's share of old buildings.
Like any other European city, Basel has it's share of old buildings.
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Lazy, tired, bitter or just pensive?
ReplyDeleteTo answer at your question, I suggest you that: For André Malraux, each act, a political commitment or anything which is the result of an artistic creation has a sense with metaphysics in which the writer believes.
And the work can’t be studied without any reference to the life of the writer in its whole.
For André Malraux, any action is tied up to an acute consciousness about feeling of death. The creating act which gives birth to the artistic work brightly gives the submission’s refusal contrasted by man with his fate. In what is essential, writes Malraux, our art is a humanization of world. The creating power of the artist gives immortality to the vast fraternity of all the persons, dead or alive.
The art works which assert man’s creativity proclaim also his eternity.
(translated by myself “ politics and culture”, André Malraux)
In the photos you took, I didn’t see something which looked at that. I just saw signs of decadence with nonsense creations made by people with a great lack of inspiration and of thought. They are just a sign of our societies at the present time.