Art as a human institution on the vitality of life
In a society where we are used to perform based on the manuals or instructions given to us, from the minute that we are born and we are taught how to belong to a society, when we attend an institution or join a work enterprise, and we are accepting their social agreements, I want to believe contemporary art is a tool for leading society to a freedom of experiencing life through self-realization, using a symbolic medium. By this meaning, we will start from Dewey’s view on the artistic process, where the artwork does not work when it is an object of contemplation, since the art does not rely on the object, but on the intensified experience of the transitory everyday life that surrounds the viewer . To understand this aesthetic one must begin with it in its raw form, in the events and scenes that hold the attentive eye. Rothko would get it, by hanging relatively low his immersive, colorfully layered paintings, facing the viewer’s body completely. This conv...