By Patricia J Finley on 2/17/2021 2:46:12 PM
Beauty at Midnight
I was watching Ken Burn's series on Jazz the other day and was struck by something that Wynton Marsalis said. He said that jazz is a conversation between musicians. I was struck by the parallel to art.
Art is a conversation between the artist and her medium. But art is also a conversation between the artist and her viewers. I WANT to converse with you all about my art, about the business of creating, about the joy of making something that someone else pays good, hard-earned money for.
The joy that I take in selling my art is not just because I like paying my mortgage. No, the true Joy comes because by virtue of the sale (or by conversations) because I know from a sale or from a conversation that my art struck a chord with the viewer. Someone somewhere loved that piece of Art and bought it so that they could look at it every day. The critical conversation is between the viewer/owner and the art.
That conversation, my friends, is the Joy of Art.
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