IDEAS ON LOVE, ART AND POWER
CONVERSATION BETWEEN WALTER GAUDNEK AND RODNEY CHANG
(WALTER GAUDNEK,PH.D., PROFESSOR OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF
CENTRAL FLORIDA, ORLANDO, USA)
LOVE
Gaudnek- Physical - flesh and nerves
Conceptual - mind, sharing
Significant Others - parents, friends, lover, etc.
Chang - Concreteness - physical beauty, physical preferences, social approval, illusions of perfection, norms, object orientation, possession, aging
Relationships - sense of identification and belonging, projections, sense of balance, sharing time and space (short and long term), mutual needs, mutual goals, appreciation of the others good qualities, acceptance of others faults, subjective personal meaning, imperfection of human relationships
ART
Gaudnek - Realism - simple (ex. folk art), complex (ex. Black on Black by Reinhard); political
Abstract - symbolism - magic, religion, superstition, psychological, mental, etc.
Search for new meaning in art as documented by art history
Psychological - my work as examples of the psychology of the mind behind the work of art
Need - the need to make or experience art
Overlapping - the need for love and art as overlapping
Chang - Perceptual processes of visualization of "art appreciation"
Social and commercial side of art
Relationship of viewer and art object
Composition - universal good taste based upon strong balance, interrelationships of elements, and equilibrium
Elements of Harmony - comprehensiveness, internal consistency, originality, intensity
Representational versus Conceptual
Function of artwork
Psychological - my art installation, Da Waiting Room, as example of a daily "art happening" and "art enivronment" in formal terms
Pop Art - the overlap of aesthetic beauty with function and price
Expressionism, Calligraphy and the Signature - similiarities
Developmental Art - influences from in the home, the classroom, peers, media, participation in the arts, formal art education, long term practice
Philosophical considerations
Collecting beautiful and rare objects for personal satisfaction and financial gain
Materiality - financial prowess, property, collectic
Intelligence - formal education, practical experience, analytical as well as cultured taste
POWER
Gaudnek - Social - collecting, ownership, possessing, have or not having, prestiege, sytle, class, taste, giving (charity),
Personal - experience, to be or not to be, giving (love-sharing), taste, immortality
Collecting - mechanisms of choice and skill
Chang - Power and Collecting - as investment, for love of collecting, for social power, for inspiration, to live with objects that provide feeling of intergration and unity
