I've been thinking about the art that really touches me. In general, it takes a little time to contemplate work enough to understand it. Quite often, I'm not sure at first why I have the immediate emotional response. Part of it is seeing the work--beautiful colors, pleasing forms, challenging juxtapositions, carefully arranged installations. The materials and form matters. The craftsmanship expresses an attitude. How the artists work with others is an element. Where they show their work communicates something. But I need to look a little more deeply.
Always, I am moved by artists who have a loving heart. Their work is an attempt to show care and compassion. They get up every day and make things and they believe that making art matters. I'm drawn to work that has an element of domesticity and/or spirituality.
Like the Shakers, Julia Galloway and Joseph Pintz make domestic art objects with great love. They don't claim that their work is religious but I see spirit in in it. Julia is passionate about creating and teaching others. Joseph is passionate about the history of a people's domestic objects from a particular place and time. Wolfgang Laib's installations are intensely religious and remind me of the spiritual element of art--One of my teachers led me to him so I feel a bit like a Wolfgang pilgrim as I follow his work. Sadashi Inuzuka made work from bread in his kitchen for a period of time partly because he was concerned about the safety of materials when he worked at home around his family. He teaches his students to keep their studios clean in respect for their space and the impact on others. He encourages them to use as low a firing temperature for their ceramics as possible. He is almost blind but actively teaches at the University level, and through his arts program for handicapped children.
Like the Shakers, Julia Galloway and Joseph Pintz make domestic art objects with great love. They don't claim that their work is religious but I see spirit in in it. Julia is passionate about creating and teaching others. Joseph is passionate about the history of a people's domestic objects from a particular place and time. Wolfgang Laib's installations are intensely religious and remind me of the spiritual element of art--One of my teachers led me to him so I feel a bit like a Wolfgang pilgrim as I follow his work. Sadashi Inuzuka made work from bread in his kitchen for a period of time partly because he was concerned about the safety of materials when he worked at home around his family. He teaches his students to keep their studios clean in respect for their space and the impact on others. He encourages them to use as low a firing temperature for their ceramics as possible. He is almost blind but actively teaches at the University level, and through his arts program for handicapped children.
So art that is meaningful for me incorporates the life and beliefs of the artist. The artists are passionate and caring towards work, their families and all of their relationships and it shows.
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