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A Personal Viewpoint
A naive human plays at shaping some passing expression,
ponders, and soon joins a vital struggle with the Muses.
Energies focus.
The creative process yields music, paintings, poetry,
inventions - whatever.
This is the artist's destiny.
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Yet, personal, introspective art-making is a very privileged activity.
It is a luxury in a world where energies obviously can be directed to more
immediate, beneficial ends for human good; and furthermore, others -
propagandists, advertisers, the mass media, gallery owners, artists in the "business of art", etc. - find pragmatic, sometimes craven, uses for art
that adequately fulfill their crass purposes.
Nevertheless, I know art-creation, in communion with life, as an engrossing
exploration of my own mind and sensibilities - whether my utterances carry
content and power enough to engage or sway. If, through the artist's private
processes, I have revealed maybe only to myself some hints of an
emerging, evolving wisdom, I know that my work has become seed:
Perhaps it will generate significant tone, color, flavor or idea within the
ongoing development of human culture.
So, Why Artists and Art?
Dedicated artists serve a vital, human need: They expand and enhance
human awareness. As they explore their own hidden, personal psyches,
each confronts an inner life's vision and also reacts to a unique,
surrounding, outer life. Each thus gives renewing expression to
universal human concerns and sensibilities.
Observers then can peer afresh into the new-old universes,
witnessing vivid, candid views of life.
Human consciousness is enriched both individually and
collectively. Sensibilities are sharpened. And finally, as
metaphorical energies are set in motion, the grand
force accrues into something resembling wisdom.
Since this compounding of mentality happens at all
extremes - from the tribe to the furthest reaches of emotion
and intellectual thought - art becomes both present
tonality and historical inspiration.
- jack bice
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Copyright Notice: All images, paintings, photos, graphics, sculpture, computer and video art,
writings, games, inventions, music and creative works of any nature presented in this web site
and its individual pages are protected by Copyright, John A. Bice, 1997, or by other creators
represented. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of these materials in any medium, for any
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