The Spectrum of Criteria of Individual Fulfillment from the Possession of Works

The Spectrum of Criteria of Individual Fulfillment from the Possession of Works of Art and Craft
There are four dimensions of owning art relevant to this question: first is the experience of the beauty as decorating one’s environment; second is owning and apperciating the one-ness of the hand of man and his little insights and imperfections – love of the character of the artist; the third is possession of a scarcity that is a direct capture and personal association with an individual time, culture, civilization, and theme; fourth is the status with possessing that exclusivity as self validation of one’s achievements.

Myself, I do not need external validation, nor do I want responsibilty for the safeguard of a cultural relic. So if I can have an accurate copy of any piece of art that’s good enough for me. Though while architecture is reproducible, scuplture is reproducible, and prints are reproducible, pottery is reproducible, and plays are reproducible, it remains quite another thing to duplicate the complexity of a painting consisting of layers of semi-transparent color through which light passes and reflects, and the brushstrokes that compose them producing the texture of the painting at close observation. Though in that sense I’m sure our technology will get there, and I can finally have my Rothko in the living room. 😉

I do find pleasure like anyone else in owning little pieces of pottery that connect me with previous millennia tho, because it makes time and space ‘real’ and tangible.

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