Champagne with breakfast, a deep blue windless day, and a 350 page picture book on Giacomo Balla to marvel through. He generated a long and remarkably informed discussion yesterday on whether artistic creativity had died in the last 30 years - nothing like a birthday to fuel sweeping statements and the revelation of secret but long-held opinions.
So who, in any artistic field, (Chomsky no, as philosophy was ruled as not being an art in the senses intended) has produced work that changed the way we understand and savour art and our world? And did any such person generate a genre?
No-one, was my argument. No writer, no poet, no painter, no sculptor. Film-making was set aside for later consideration as our best film knowers were not there. Lots of names were named, but all their major work fell outside (before) the 30-year cut off.
Any offers?
ps Even composers fell outside the cut off; performers were ruled interpreters and not creators.
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Did not the Columbian artist Fernando Botero's most famous work present itself post 1978? Can we include photographers? What about inventors? Hep B vaccine 1983.
1998 Viagra. 1984 Apple Mac. Electronic music? If anyone can call it music. Wollemi Pine found in Australian Rainforest,the greatest botanical discovery of our time 1994. I digress, sorry.
I went to look (not being very informed) at his work and found the terrible pictures Botero y Abu Ghraib.
All upset now. Yes he is a powerful artist.
Photographers most certainly, but again I'm ill informed. Inventors fall outside the remit, like philosophers etc. (Gosh, typing 'philosophers etc.' was fun).
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