11/21/2023 0 Comments What makes us who we areWe make art to know ourselves, to locate ourselves in the web of being, to make ourselves more alive. We make art with everything we are, the doom and the glory of it. Iris Murdoch found in this the ultimate evidence of why art is essential for democracy in it, James Baldwin recognized the titanic dual task of the artist as society’s essential destabilizing force and its “emotional or spiritual historian,” whose job it is “to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.” Artists are so often those whom society paints as other by some hue of identity and belonging, and yet they are also the ones who, in seeing how and what most people don’t see, teach us what it takes to be ourselves, what it feels like to be someone other than ourselves, and what it means to be a human being. “Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world,” artist Egon Schiele wrote in contemplating why visionaries tend to come from the minority.
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