People seldom realise that without an audience there is no “art”. The artist is inseparable from the person viewing their work. Creativity is just as prevalent in the minds of the viewer, as it was in the mind of creator. Gather the people who normally only witness art and make them become a piece in an artwork…
All you give them is a fleeting moment of creative nirvana. All that is left now is a series of action photos. Even though these are also beautiful, they are not the same artwork anymore. Anyone who sees a musical performance and later watches a video taken from it can tell that it has become something completely different to what they saw earlier.
When a book of art history refers to its own photo of a classic masterpiece, is it now talking about something completely different? The illusion of another illusion…..?
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