When Art Is Love
‘Common sense is the enemy of romance’ Oscar Wilde
In an art blog in The Guardian this morning Cathy Lomax, who’s founded an artzine called Arty, proposes that art now shift to the romantic. There’s not been much romance in art for the last twenty years. Art’s been all about minimal, conceptual and SERIOUS. It seems like fun couldn’t possibly be art. And that love can’t be fun.
Lomax remembers a teenage, secret fondness for the novels of the all-too-tacky Barbara Cartland—
“She had very large eyes in a heart-shaped face and her hair under her plain, unfashionable bonnet was the colour of ripening corn. Her eyes surprisingly were not blue but, unless he was mistaken, the grey of a wintry sea.” (Love for Sale - Barbara Cartland)
He was probably mistaken, but never mind. I love the idea of a new art movement that is F.U.N. It isn’t a common sense idea, of course.
www.artymagazine.com
