The Art of it All

Malcolm Jones, in his Newsweek article You can go Home Again, does a nice job at providing a reader with a narrative of an artist, and the narrative of the art he creates. In this brief article, Jones illuminates the intricacies of William Eggleston’s retrospective, currently showing at the Whitney Museum in New York City. The core of the article, for me, is Jones’ statement – “It's more a matter of temperament, more about a way of seeing the world. Eggleston's photographs looked familiar to me the first time I saw them because that's the way I see the world.”

I am not an artist. Still, it fascinates me that visuals, large or small, can evoke emotions of all kinds. A well taken photo can corrupt the psyche; liberate the soul, command attention. For journalist, it provides the reader an opportunity to interact with an article on another level, something like an existential experience where the reader uses the image as a conduit to further interpret the journalist words.

Still, art is subjective, and one persons Picasso in another’s doodle, thus, it can negate the intentions that it was intended for.