Sunday, April 15, 2012

Legacies

Impressionists and composers of tone poems merge sensory perceptions and atmospheric environments; cubists and jazz artists connect with perspectives on time and space.


After the wars, renewal, upheaval, and change.  Rethinking the popular arts, and the degrees to which they disconnect from the fine, or serious, arts.  Ideological conflicts.  Shifts in conscience, sensibility, and consciousness.  Expansion of media and technology.  The modern and the passing of the postmodern, with the questions asked from time immemorial remaining.

Scattered throughout, simplicity, virtue, clarity of reason, intellectual integrity, imagination, visions of individual freedom and artistic originality, combining with like historical forces to drive their realities into the moment.