I read a post today on the corporazation of art. How art and culture is going to be a new section in the Wall Street Journel (because now culture is capital). the writer for Art Talk, Chicago goes on to claim that she is trying to 'make peace' with this direction and yet still has hope for 'sincere' and 'genuine' art saying something along the lines of:
"..even if art has to move underground it will still survive somewhere."
I get frustrated at these statements because I want to believe in them, but I just don't. I don't believe in genuine art in the way the world believes in it (at least to some extent). My continual battle with proposals like this is the following:
How could we possibly have 'genuine' or 'sincere,' when the insides have been gutted, the framework has been stripped bare and the foundation has cracked. There are no absolutes. There is no standard. If you want to measure genuine, you have to measure it in comparison to all else...which by definition of the word comes from no place at all.
"Genuine: (2) actually produced by or proceeding from the alleged source or author."
When art comes from above and not from below.
When art comes from grace and not from gravity.
When art comes from God alone.
The only absolute.
Then, I would say, art is Genuine.
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