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About the Arts

Sterling Jacobs

    As an artist I enjoy my work. I feel satisfaction while doing it. But then I think people will appreciate it too and perhaps want it. While to a certain degree, that’s good to keep in mind, sometimes I convert such thoughts into unrealistic expectations internalized too far within myself.
    This is why I go out to other places to see others’ art for several reasons: To remind myself of the talent and the work that others possess. Also, I look at their work as a way of continuing to develop an appreciation for art that challenges my own preconceptions and prejudices about the world and all who exist within it. Each artwork is like a human. It has flaws, limitations, imperfections and whatnot. And that is where I come to preconceptions. I might view those attributes in a way to JUDGE that artwork as BAD.
    This judgment can be applied to humans the same way. If a human doesn’t fit my conception of what I think a good human is or should be, I can be dismissive of them and JUDGE them as BAD. If a painting is housed in a picture frame that is well presented and pleasing to the eye, that frame is an asset for that painting. If a child grows up in a nice home that is well presented and pleasing to the eye, being able to live in such a home is a privilege for such a child. Artwork that is housed in a frame made of rotted wood is not pleasing to the eye at all. The painting doesn’t have the privilege of a nice frame, just as a child doesn’t have the privilege of living in a nice home. Both artworks are equally beautiful in their own right, but the frames create the “distinction” in accessing their worth.
    Art teaches us many things. Ultimately, beauty is not just in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is not bound by appearance, privilege, color or status. If anything, beauty is bound by one virtue and one virtue alone, love. And love is a wondrous thing.

 

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