NEW ART AND OLD CONTEXT 9

Edmundas Saladžius
www.kamane.lt, 2012-10-22
Edmundas Saladžius. Photo from the archive of Kamane.lt

In brief: The crossing of centuries does not always coincide with new non-experienced phenomena. All newest inventions of science determine behaviour of people, change habits and form a new attitude to the world. Still, the eternal vicious passion to control surrounding people and to turn the planet into a physical and spiritual dump-yard has not disappeared.

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The history of a human-being is also art history. Art is a big and formidable power that has always been used by forces trying to make impact to the control of the world. It was always attempted to bind the most talented artists by privileges and to ensure their loyalty to their patrons in this way; then the art process could become controllable.

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The mission of State Academy of Arts to raise a new artist is very important. It is not healthy for a young artist to rush to the consumer art market and to try to correspond with the common European standard. The enforced role of a businessman has a negative impact on an artist. This leads to dependence of the creative process on the potential art product user. A danger appears to raise a citizen who will not be responsible for one’s activity but who will be a good trader. The art of East and Central Europe of these days is lively and actual. Evidently, this was determined by the resistance to the Soviet imperialism and losing the nation’s identity.

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Still, an artist chained by fears and service is not capable to contribute to the development of uniqueness of his/her nation and its integrity in the joint cultural environment of Europe. Such artist and teacher becomes the gravedigger of his own and future artists’ generations.


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