* Monday, March 10, 2003 *  
I was doing some touch-up research just now for my Argentina project for tomorrow. I needed to find the definition of "plastic art" (for which I still have none; artists tend to be too poetical to define anything one way or another; one will define plastic art as being the representation of pure shape and form, while another will say it's the essence of life, portrayed in art. Even better, a third defined it as the "will of the material"). Anyway, I ran into a quote by a "plastic art" artist. He says: "There is a holy mathematics and art in the will of the material which are the soul of plastic art." (Direct quote from http://www.wsu.edu/~jackdoll/school/stu/conv/nadelman.htm... it had to be from WSU, hahaha). So why is it that artists compare their work to mathematics when it's clearly not math, and math (and pretty much every science) compares their work to art, when it's most ovbiously not! I'm sorry, I know there may be some satisfaction in the order and logic of math and science, but it is NOT art. And there might be some pretty lines to be drawn, and some art does use math, but it sure as Bob ain't math! Math is math! Art is art!
grrr....
posted by Andy* | 10:34 PM