Art and
Morality
The true creative spirit is an elusive and exclusive force which
drives the Artist to produce a product. This may be literature, music, visual
art, or performance. The creator does not produce his art form for the desire
of monetary reward. The driving force of this passion comes from the highest of
all motives, to express his/her visions of inner expression of truth to share
with humanity.
To give without guile is something which the Arts are, in their truest
form, an element which raises the viewer’s awareness to a place of new ways to
view our world and have a fresh understanding if only for a moment in time. The
monuments to house these are forms have throughout history been some of
Mankind’s greatest achievements. The Pyramids, the Parthenon, the Louvre Museum St. Peters
While Art Museums have long been a driving force in my life’s desire
to visit and be inspired by, the actual building of these Cathedrals of Art
have not been a concern of mine, but now it seems that the competition to build
the biggest, the most expensive, and the most “beautiful” has come to be the antithesis
of what Art is all about.
This morning in the Union Tribune the article Art and Labor Intersect,
raised my awareness of the practices of the building of some of these new and
magnificent structures for the Arts.
For me, this dichotomy of the higher ideals of Art and truth clash
vehemently with the idea of the laborers of this new Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi
