This is for Mr. Lorenzo Ostiguy

In Reply to: Re: I MUST FIND AN EXEMPLARY ACADEMY OR A MASTER PAINTER TO TEACH ME posted by R.Lorenzo Ostiguy on 09/16/00 at 7:29 AM:

: Alfredo, I have asked this question to all my students, " what is art" The answers I have received were interisting, but fell short. In all cases it was the inability to see the forest because of the trees. Perhaps you would like to take a crack at it. My involvement in your search for a teacher does not depend on how well you can express yourself, which is self evedent in your querry. Mental gymnastics I am not interisted in.
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What is Art?
Perhaps I can more precisely tell you what it is 'not'.
"What is art?" you ask me.
I reply simply and without pretention,
"I don't know."
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Art is what is achieved by capturing and fixing a glimpse of the 'marvellous'.
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Art does not exist.
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Art is a participation in Divinity.
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"Duende", short for duen de la casa ("lord of the house"), originally meant a divine presence which from time to time made itself felt in a Gypsy cave or hut during a flamenco session. But Duende is also applied to a spirit of ecstatic love caught and preserved in a painting, poem, sculpture, or musical passage. Nobody can fake duende or evoke it at will.
This is strength! This is Art!

 
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