Member-only story
Art is Passion
The question is, what makes those special pieces of art meaningful? In a study at the Whitney Museum of American Art, we examined that fundamental question. We approached visitors and asked them about the most meaningful piece of art they encountered.
1. Insights about oneself and one’s life history.
2. Understandings about others and the world.
3. Understandings about the artist and their creative process.
4. Awareness of the aesthetic narrative.
5. Insights about art techniques and materials. Even as researchers approached the question of impacts of art from different angles, it is clear that experiences of meaningful art have in common being highly emotional, not in a simple way of liking, but in drawing on fondness and nostalgia, vulnerability, connectedness and empathy, as well as challenging discomfort. Such deep emotional experiences facilitate a search for meaning and understanding.
— Zorana Ivcevic Pringle PhD
*
Lorca described how all over Andalusia people spoke constantly of the duende and identified it accurately and instinctively whenever it appeared.
These black sounds are the mystery, the roots fastened in the mire we all know and all ignore, the mire that gives us the substance of art…The duende…
