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Arthur Robins, who has lived in New York for the last thirty years, has shown his work in as varied of places as the streets of New York to the John McEnroe Gallery in Soho. In 1993 Robins was one of the founding members of A.R.T.I.S.T., a group that successfully litigated a Federal landmark case extending the First Amendment right of free speech to artists and fine art (selling art on New York streets had been banned). Robins' "pool art" has been much admired by top players and has been collected by billiard industry doyen Ronald Blatt who continuously runs a video of Robins explaining his art at the entrance of his showroom on Broadway. |
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While Icons have been around for millennium, I believe that they are the opposite of “Art”, and this is why:
Icons are design, isolated and limited symbols. Fine art is (supposed to be) imaginary, suggestive imagery. Part of a whole.
Icons are capturing an often known symbol (or even unknown) and giving it “magical” powers by projecting it into the mind.
Fine art involves allowing images to be to be “symbolic” with multiple possible meanings, or different levels of meaning.
They are in a context that allows freedom of association. Icons seek to force the mind to obey the limited purpose that the ‘designer’ has created for this symbol.
Fine art remains an open ended dream world of many possibilities.
Icons turn art into a “Thing”. Fine art, in its purest form, is supposed to communicate something.
Turning art into a ‘thing’ nullifies its ability to effectively communicate and undermines the very value of art itself.
The Bible contains countless images. These images have been depicted by thousands of artists throughout time.
Most were created before TV, movies, magazines or any mass form of communication. They were created to communicate the deep concepts and stories revealed in the Bible.
But religious Icons, rather than communicate, force people to worship the icon. They become idols rather than beacons of light. They become replacements for God Himself, and seek to become God.
In places where you find religious Icons, you find a significant lack of revelation of God. As such, icons replace real art. The Icon’s power to undermine the freedom of fine art is its very purpose.
The cheap and easy presentation of an iconic image, giving all the appearances of ‘communication’ without the needed revelation, is a ploy to destroy the very concept of ‘revelation’ itself.
The ‘revelation’ of art itself, by definition, comes directly from God. In bypassing Him, all communication in fine art will be inevitably fruitless, pointless,and meaningless.
Creating Icons is the godless way to create false revelation, false depth, and false spirituality.
The icon seeks to demand allegiance, be bowed down to, be held high and looked up to. Fine art asks to be interpreted.
If it shouts, it does so quietly. It “demands” that you think for yourself. It offers new insight and new concepts with depth of feeling.
The Icon is always stylized, rigid, hard edged, and stoic. Fine art is often unstylized, free and loose, soft edged and passionate.
The Icon is is center paged, and self centered, presented without the slightest self examination.
Fine art is composed and open-ended, presenting many questions about life and the nature of existence, and it tries to answer them.
Icons are self conscious. Fine art is Truth conscious. Icons don’t care about you, they care about them.
FIne art is all about you. Icons take from you and give nothing. Fine art gives to you and takes nothing.
Fine art wants to explore the unknown and try and make it known. Icons want to present the known, and try and create mystery around it.
Icons are symbols, representing something else. Fine art, while it may be depicting something, IS the thing. It stands for itself.
Icons depend on the viewer recognizing what it is. Fine art reveals secrets that the viewer doesn’t know.
Fine art represents the true heart of man, yearning to know.
While the art world allows fine art and icons to exist calmly side by side, like old friends, it is my opinion that they are not, and time will surely tell.
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