Tuesday, February 15, 2005
(4:10 PM) | Anonymous:
I'm Not Much For Beauty.
I work for A/V at DePaul University. Sometimes we find old slides in the projectors that usually get set aside. I always love when I happen to find one of these forgotten images, usually of some city projects or pieces of art (I don't know why the Art and Sociology departments are the only ones who still use slide projectors). I stumbled upon an amazing slide the other day, and luckily the teacher had written the title on the cardboard frame, Germany: A Winter's Tale.
The artist is George Grosz and his paintings exemplify what I find to be good art. Obviously his work can't be called "beautiful" as such, but this style of painting has always functioned as an intensifier of thought more so than anything ever done by the impressionists. Some would argue that this style of art is inferior to the artwork of more abstract artists, because this work can act as a signifier and thus has a meaning outside of itself. I can't argue with that, except to say that I enjoy this kind of painting more.
