Armistice : Art , War and the World
Art can give meaning to life.
"Yesterday I resumed work. It’s the best way to avoid thinking of these sad times. All the same, I feel ashamed to think about my little researches into form and colour while so many people are suffering and dying...”
- Claude Monet. 1914.
Quoted while working on his water lilies paintings during World War I. Monet could hear the sound of gunfire from 50 kilometers away from his house in Giverny as he painted. It is such rich situation. So brutally painful and yet filled with beauty.
Reminds me how Life of Pie made life bearable by overlaying reality with something of beauty, or Pans Labyrinth how fantasy helped cope with horrors.
A role art fulfills is bring meaning and beauty to this chaotic world. Many are looking for ways to deal with this world and find meaning and I for one am finding meaning through AI art. AI art is democratizing art. I’m finding my self able to play in arenas that I could only dream of before. Engaging with impressionism and Monet, fantasy and Frazetta , not to mention being able to share magical worlds I’ve actually experienced and photographed but am now capable of sharing even more.
