芸術は人の感受性を再生する役割がある。いかに自分が芸術を愛すると言っても、なんて芸術に無知なんだろう、おれは!
人類の未来をより良い方向に築くには利他性が不可欠。そして、芸術は利他性を持続させる必須要素。1人の芸術家が利他性(愛)と情熱を込めた作品を人々が観覧する時、もし、その価値を受け入れ近づこうとするならば、それと同じ行動によってのみでしか、その作品と対話することができない!作品との対話!“対話は理解と融合の上に成り立つ”
(ルネ•ユイグ)
J の書いた記事
『How Long Does It Take to Look at Painting?』を思い出したよ。
The first column in this series was about Mondrian paintings, and how closely it's possible to look at them. (Very closely, I think, even microscopically closely.) It took me more or less three years, on and off, to learn to see that Mondrian painting. If I had added up the hours I spent in front of it, and in front of my computer looking at JPEGs of it, it would probably be about 100 hours, or about 2 weeks of looking, 40 hours a week.
That is a lot, but it's nothing compared with some people. When I taught classes in the Art Institute in Chicago, I ran into people who came to the museum regularly, over a period of years.
An elderly woman told she came to see one of the Art Institute's Rembrandt paintings -- a curious picture of a young woman, leaning on the bottom half of a Dutch door -- three or four times a week during her lunch hour.
How long had she done that? I asked. She said, "I don't know. Decades." To be conservative, let's say she meant two decades, and let's say her lunch hour was one hour. That's 3,000 hours of looking. If looking had been her 9 to 5 job, that's over a year of doing nothing but sitting in front of one painting. What amazing conversations she must have had with the woman in that painting!
自己拡大の幅が、芸術を通して見える世界の幅だ!