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The Process Of Art: Tools At Work
As a definable movement, Conceptual Art in the 1960s-1970s attempted to bypass the increasingly commercialized art world, emphasizing that "thinking process and production methods are the value of artworks". As a mysterious bridge, tools have realized the visual transformation of artworks from virtual individual consciousness to tangible objects. An artist's conception itself does not constitute art 鈥� but if the artist seeks to materialize it, he or she must utilize the power of technology and tool. Tool is a clue that can return to the essence of art. As a part of artists' practical behavior, it has its own way of seeing. This approach guides artists to operate, and makes the operations own their specific material properties.
Manufacturing, manipulating, editing or processing represent a way of art's uncovering as well as a pattern of creating an open area and revealing truth within 鈥� they are closely related to the emergence of art essence. When works lose themselves in the art market or fall into theoretical crisis, tools become a gradual link 鈥� a link that can produce infinity, a link that has creativity to break the existing cognition, and a link that carries out the internal test of art. It makes us re-examine the creation of art again.
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As a definable movement, Conceptual Art in the 1960s-1970s attempted to bypass the increasingly commercialized art world, emphasizing that "thinking process and production methods are the value of artworks". As a mysterious bridge, tools have realized the visual transformation of artworks from virtual individual consciousness to tangible objects. An artist's conception itself does not constitute art 鈥� but if the artist seeks to materialize it, he or she must utilize the power of technology and tool. Tool is a clue that can return to the essence of art. As a part of artists' practical behavior, it has its own way of seeing. This approach guides artists to operate, and makes the operations own their specific material properties.
Manufacturing, manipulating, editing or processing represent a way of art's uncovering as well as a pattern of creating an open area and revealing truth within 鈥� they are closely related to the emergence of art essence. When works lose themselves in the art market or fall into theoretical crisis, tools become a gradual link 鈥� a link that can produce infinity, a link that has creativity to break the existing cognition, and a link that carries out the internal test of art. It makes us re-examine the creation of art again.
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