LLEI D'ART - Issue. 11 - 2013

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EL OCASO DE LA BELLEZA EN EL ARTE/THE TWILIGHT OF BEAUTY IN ART?
Art has become banal because society has lost its dignity.
Beauty in art is of no interest. It has to do with nobility and
splendour, with the glorification of reality but it requires
spirituality, knowledge and good taste. Nowadays there
is a preference for the revolting, the scandalous, the uncouth.
We live under the rule of the obscene because it
attracts larger audiences; the populace has become lethargic
with bread and circuses in a society at the mercy
of marketing, where there seems to be no space for the
spiritual heartbeat that art provides to man. A brutal mercantilism
–destructive and lethal for beauty– has taken
hold of so-called contemporary art (it barely deserves the
name), de-humanising it and turning it into an industrial
project. And the saddest thing is the way in which many
people are taking part and buying into such nonsense,
paying homage to the ugly and banal, and falling for the
lies spun by this theatre of mediocrity and the decline in
values. The art that currently leads the market has turned
against itself, railing against its own principles. It has become
perverted.
Fortunately we can spy new clutches of phoenix-artists
who are rising, silent and impending, from the ashes of
an artistic decadence that some (by this I mean quite a
few) of us had dreamt of. The renaissance is composed
of young creators who bring together everything that a
good artist should have: talent, education and discipline in
spades. They have grown up in the midst of the tastelessness
that has impregnated the art scene over the last few
years, but now they are setting trends. We could soon be
speaking of a rebirth…