What makes art catchier – engagement of emotions or
intellect? Looking on supremacists and conceptualists art it became clear – if
art requires the brain to work, it becomes more interesting.
For example, the “Ubiquitous” by Naoko Ito, that is
basically are some sticks and parts of a tree in lo
ts of cans placed together to form a branch. Firstly, it looks attractive and intriguing. Then it forces one to generate ideas. Should it represent how inefficiently is humanity in its interactions with nature? Is it about the owning wish of something beautiful,
peculiar to people? Should this artwork show how senseless
and weird that is? Or maybe it is an urge to look at what people are doing with
nature, and how man-made stuff have swallowed the flora and fauna. Is it a way
to represent pollution? Or how companies are wrapping up everything in plastic
and other packaging if it is even no need in it? It also might be something
more positive – such as alternative look on house plants or another way to save
a memory moment – instead of a photo.
Thousands of interpretations pop up in the mind. And that
kind of stuff does not come from nowhere – it is something the person had
thought about before and that makes him feel something. While looking at art
piece the one thinks about some enjoyable or unpleasant interpretation of art
and starts to get feelings about it. It also may be opposite – some art piece
creates emotions and then other thoughts and memories that are related start to
appear. It seems like there is no clear division of emotional or intellect
aspects in art. One goes after another and they alternate.
Yet the difference becomes more clear in the process of art creation. It is still almost impossible to think without emotions or to feel without thoughts. But there is a way to express one more than the other. Expressing feelings might be more enjoyable since it does not require much thinking, it is not the main goal. While the representation of thoughts, creating something that requires intelligence seems hard and time-consuming. Even talking by itself is hard – the human need to think what is his goal; what kind of information should the interlocutor get; what combinations of words would create exactly the same idea the one is trying to send, so it would be understandable to a person with a completely different background, so there is no chance the thought would be understood distorted. While for expressing emotions it would be enough to scream or laugh. Expressing ideas without much of emotions in art is even harder. It creates lots of space for misunderstanding and others.
So the choices are obvious. If there is an art by another
artist – it is more preferable for it to be something that requires more intelligent.
On the other hand, if it is the process of art creation, it is better to
express feelings. The opposite takes a place too. Of course, if we presume
there is much difference in those interconnected processes.
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