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‘Great art’ survey Artenol surveyed participants in the Kopkind workshop to gauge their interest in the arts. Here are the results. n RESPONDENT PROFILE Gender Respondents, by percentage 39 MALE 61 FEMALE Income Household, per annum 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% Age 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Less than 25 Marital status Single Married Divorced 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65 and older 22% 20% Education Level successfully completed 8% PhD 17% Post-graduate 68% College 58% Favorite color By percentage, other colors less than 1% 33 25 17 8 4 Favorite cuisine By percentage, other cuisines less than 1% Favorite music 23 Chinese 18 Italian 16 Mexican 9 Thai/Vietnamese 8 Indian By percentage, other music genres less than 1% 0% Less than $25K $25K- $49K $50K- $79K $80K- $99K $100K or more 7% High school n RESPONDENT ART INTERESTS 29 Rock 24 Folk 26 Art education Formal classes taken Art history 34% 7% 59% Studio course None Art activities Those regularly participated in Painting None Drawing 18% 6% 61% 15% Sculpting 19 Soul/R&B 7 Jazz 6 Classical 5 World Favorite pastime Art objects Number of artworks owned, by percentage Art relevance Art’s importance to the average person Top 2 activities, by percentage 6 15 7 9 66 None 1-5 6-10 11-19 20 or more Not relevant Highly relevant 71 Dancing 58 Reading
MAKE ART GREAT AGAIN n RESPONDENT ART PREFERENCES Preferred style Respondents were asked to pick which of 6 artists – Picasso, Warhol, Rembrandt, Fragonard, Rockwell or Koons – they most favored. Results shown by percentage. 36 Rembrandt 22 Picasso 20 Warhol 9 Rockwell 8 Koons 5 Fragonard Spatial acuity Respondents selected the most pleasing arrangement of the 4 below. Results shown by percentage. 48 12 34 Involvement Frequency of respondents’ art gallery and/or museum visits. Results shown by percentage. 6 67 At least once a year 43 At least once a month we could initiate a discussion of these matters. The name “Artenol” comes from Tylenol – the magazine is to be a remedy for the art world’s ills. I’m looking for the truth, though some people might find my views controversial. I just wonder why people don’t want to see the obvious. Why do they accept the status quo, believing what everyone else believes rather than finding their own beliefs? Harold Rosenberg, one of the great postwar art critics, described this condition in an essay titled “The Herd of Independent Minds.” In his view, we are a “herd of independent minds” – we’re like a herd in that we strive not to think individually. If you think about art, it becomes obvious that it is wrong. But it’s not just art. Our culture also defines us. Traditional Marxist teaching says the economy shapes our minds, but I believe it’s just the opposite. In a phrase, it’s the culture, stupid. This variation on the famous slogan from the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign says it’s art, in a broad sense, and not the economy, that defines everything in our lives. If we change culture, we will change the world. Art, as it’s presently defined, should be destroyed, demolished. You know, there are different definitions of what art is. If you go to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, you’ll see paintings, of course. But you’ll also see medieval armor, some silverware, all sorts of utilitarian things of fine design. Spinoza said – and he was called the first atheist – that everything is God, and therefore God does not exist. Similarly, if everything is art, if everything has an artistic value, then there’s no need for art to exist at all. There’s no need for a separate entity called “art.” Of course, people like to decorate their homes with beautiful things, paint their walls with pleasing colors – you can call that “decoration” or you can call it “art.” The point is that art exists now as a special, holy occupation. Artists are “higher beings,” in a way, so their art represents something not just beautiful, decorative or pleasing, but something deeper, something hidden, a condition that began with modern art. Traditionally, art, from medieval times, was used to illustrate the Bible. Everyone believed in God, and artists illustrated the Bible’s stories. So, in a way, the light of God was reflected in art. But with the demise of traditional religion, some new religions, new beliefs, came into being. They included Marxism, socialism and then Freudianism. The most powerful of all these was Theosophy, which was established by a Russian woman, Madame Blavatsky. Theosophy revolutionized art, in a fundamental way, because it gave it new meaning. There was a very important 27
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