Art between the provocation, and cynicism

[Art-lover]

Сообщение от VYACHESLAV

provocative not to be confused with the outrageous, the game, the desire at any cost to attract attention. Provocative skusstvo has always been and will, as a locomotive of .... There is no engine - no movement, there comes contemplation, depression, installation of existence, where the movement is replaced by flashing lights.

VYACHESLAV note that Philip Dazhan, the article which is devoted to this topic, not showing much deference to the provocative:

Once Manet, Cezanne and Matisse, caused a scandal, this is not quite themselves wanting, not because they did not want to like, but because they could not write otherwise, without betraying himself. Duchamp, Dadaists and Surrealists scandal caused intentionally, for them it was one way to protest against the established social order and tradition. Hurst, Chapman brothers, and some others - Tracy Emin, Cattelan - have provoked his only artistic technique, but the scandal turned into an advertising argument. They did not protest against what, on the contrary, they are very well and enthusiastically use capitalism, flattering billionaires and passing them off as patrons of the arts. They play with the system Mediatization, and the only advantage you'd like for them to admit - this is the perfect and cynical understanding of the situation.

Provocative - indifferent to the art factor, it is only characteristic of public reaction to the art or technique of call such a reaction. This is not a "locomotive", and the fifth wheel of the cart - the quality does not add, but it draws a crowd of onlookers. Movement is the art going under the action of the deep - and often hidden from us - the internal forces of society and the art itself.

Provocation made sense, until it to something carried or against something protested, accent, or at least something new.
Under all the provocations almost 20 years ago led a symbolic feature of Baudrillard, putting a question no less relevant today:

"If you try to define the status quo, then I would call his condition after the orgy. Orgy - is any explosive element of modernity, the time of liberation in all areas.'s Political liberation, sexual liberation, the liberation of productive forces, the release destructive forces, the liberation of women, children, unconscious impulses, the liberation of art. Ascension of all models of representation and all models antireprezentatsy ... We walked all the way virtual production and overproduction of objects, characters, content, ideology, pleasure. Today, all - free, rates have already made, and together we were faced with a fateful question: what to do after orgies? "(emphasis added)"

Anyone who has any serious relation to contemporary art, can not ignore this issue.
Therefore, sharing the view of nikola in one respect

Сообщение от nikola

I think the forum and the task is to talk about art.
Look on the attitude of others, to see the new colors, a new look at the processes taking place in the world of art. "

I can not agree with him that

Сообщение от nikola

the forum can not stand the question "What is art?" and personal opinion, my art, "paintings, which I love, and TAs.

There are times when the question of the essence of art goes into the shadow, because the answer seems self-evident. In our time "on a new look at the processes taking place in the world of art" is possible only in the light of the question of the essence of art.
I venture to suggest that the rejection of attempts to conceptualize the current situation in the art, ie from the question "what is art?" leads to the loss of the art of one of the most powerful impulses of life.
Avoiding the topic, in fact - the position of the ostrich, sinking his head in the sand to avoid seeing the reality of living with her problems.
One option to escape from freedom.