The visual arts are the focus of culture; they are the most important road leading humanity away from its old home of ‘nature’. From the earliest finger scratched image in the dirt, to the cave paintings of Lascaux to the iron ‘angel of the north’ they represent our fundamental desire and drive to replace the natural chaos with a cultural order.
The visual arts so often have served spiritual ends because of this representation. At its basest level artists take dirt, model it and make significance. It is no coincidence that the state funded galleries of the world have taken on the presence that only religious buildings once had. Art isn’t about communication. It’s about the search for significance and control in a world of anonymity and chaos.
Guy Denning
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