From listening to the john peel lecture i has make me take into great consideration why i and other people create art. He made a goo point about how people used to create art as a past time to unwind after they finish their “proper” jobs. In todays era it is possible to earn a living from creating art and also be successful with it and make a career from it, many years ago this would of been unthinkable. He said in his lecture something about when wealth increase art activity increase, and that it is impossible to create art when starving, this made me think about how poverty decreases creativity as the poorer people dont have time to think about art in a serious way as they need to do things and even money to eat and live, these points he made link in with culture and how art is in many of the choices we make daily, creative or not.
He describes art as “everything that you dont have to do” this implies that its a choice, you can't be forced to do art or nothing good will become of it, you have to choose to create it. In the lecture he says art can be considered as out clothes choice, tattoos, plastic surgery, as they are all things that we dont need to do but choose to do, similar to cooking we need to eat to survive but we dont need to bake cakes, and create weird and inventive foods, we just choose to keep ourselves and others interested.
Television soaps can be considered as an a art piece, as people like to talk about them and interpret them in their own way. They feel that they can talk about a soap differently than they would if it was a real life event or something that had happened to them as it may be too sensitive, so they talk freely about a soap and discuss it differently to real life events.
‘Art’ gives you a chance to have feelings about things that aren’t dangerous to us and we can either choose to move alway from it so we dont have to look or we can switch it off so we dont have to hear it, unlike with real life.
“Art is a safe place for you to have feelings that are dangerous and you can have them because you can leave them and its not real”
book mentioned -
Mans rage for chaos : biology, behaviour and the arts - ‘arts is the exposure to the tension and problems of a false world in order that man may endure the tension and the problems of the real world’
Keeping together in time :Dance and drill in human history, by William H. McNeill - book about dancing and carnivals and situations where people synchronise with each other
Dancing in the streets, by Barbara Ehrenreich
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