An essay Introduction: Word after word, write your way out of this beginning. Stand right in front of your department, and imagine your steps three years later. Main body: Imagine yourself stepping surely, swiftly navigating the rooms you’ve sat in for countless seminars. Imagine yourself knowing these paths, the shortcuts between buildings, the quickest way […]
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“The arts are merely a decoration imposed on the top of human life, they do not express it”
Art is the vessel of permanence and ephemerality. In ‘To the Lighthouse’, Virginia Woolf explores this paradox by making art the object that makes the character of Lily (the novel’s central artist) realise the transitory nature of life. Trying to construct a fictitious composition of mother and son, meant to be aesthetically pleasing, the artist […]
Is Performance Art a Form of Expression or Not Real Art?
A work was exhibited in the Serpentine Gallery in 1995 entitled ‘The Maybe’ in which a figure lay on a bare bed in a glass cabinet for eight hours a day and seven days a week. The figure in question was the actor Tilda Swinton, ten years before she would become the White Witch in […]