We are in the midst of a crisis of cultural innovation. Popular culture has lost its edge. The movies are stuck in a loop. Modern art has become an echo chamber. Creativity is on pause.
Art, film, and music are all struggling to evolve.
Despite the technological advances of the century we are in, stagnation has begun in many branches of art. Whether you call it commercial pressures, economic crises, political regimes, or claim that dull souls can no longer make art. From the recent past to the present, I ask the following question: Where did the free spirit of art go?
It's like everything has turned into custom-made junk. A period of chaos has begun, from music to cinema. Every new product is like a bad copy of the previous one. The things they want to keep in mind are just buckets of garbage.
The most important influence on art is society itself. Just like human beliefs, art changes over time. Being an archive of society's collective memory, its movement shifts with the artists who bring it to life. A few years ago, I attended an event at the British Library in London. The theme of the event was the change in the spirit of art. At one point, the speaker asked a question and wanted to have an interactive time with the participants.
The question was: Do you think art has morality? The vast majority of the participants responded in this way: "There is no relationship. Artists are people. No more. No less. Artists are human, and naturally, they do good things and bad things. But art should be kept separate. Art can be criticized, but cannot be judged, if it is judged, it ceases to be art and turns into something else."
As I heard the ideas, the seeds in my mind began to grow. I had an answer too.
Yes, art also has morality, and unfortunately, this morality has come very close to decay at some points. Some say that art is free in every way and does not represent anything. It does not have to be humanist or hedonist. It does not have to make anyone happy or educated. If art is an expression of thoughts and feelings, then how can it be so unempathetic and emotionless? How can it be free without adding anything to the society it presents itself to? Whether you want it or not, when you look at the painting on the wall, it adds something to your soul. Bitter, sweet, sour... but there is something in there.
Art evokes different associations in everyone's mind. Art is actually an individual pleasure. Individuals also form society. Art is never confined to a seed, it is always the fruit, the shell, outside the seed. In other words, art is the whole of what it is.
In our century, art works made in return for money are an undeniable fact. Some set out with political concerns, some are commercial.
When you look at the point art has reached in the world, do you think there is anyone left who makes art by adding their pure soul?
If you ask me, despite all these negative and boring developments, there are. There are still real artists who shape the dough of art in its purest form.
They are simply left out of the system and their numbers are dwindling. I hope you come across a masterpiece made by a true artist at least once in your life.
