Arnold Hauser (1892 - 1978) a Hungarian-born British writer wrote books on the history of art and looked at society and how art was formed in within the economic and political times of the day. I feel his writing on the Impressionist period is transferable to our creative time period.

Hauser: “The continual and increasingly rapid replacement of old articles in everyday use by new ones leads, however, to a diminished affection for material and soon also for intellectual possessions, too, and readjusts the speed at which philosophical and artistic revaluations occur to that of changing fashion. Modern technology thus introduces an unprecedented dynamism in the whole attitude to life and it is above all this new feeling of speed and change that finds expression in impressionism”.

(Hauser, A. Approx mid 1950's. The Social History of Art - Volume Four - Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age. Vintage Books, Random House Books, New York).

These models are floating in space, devoid of boundaries that might influence the next direction they go. The only obstacles in their way now are the invisible zephyrs that whisper pass them now and them, upsetting only their hairdos. Are they powerless to use their tools now? Do we have to step up to the mark and cut the crap instead?

Back to top...