The Movement

The movement is not something to take lightly. It's valuable and important to our culture and our lifestyles. Art is a broad term and relates to everything including fashion to how our cars look. We see art everyday in merchandising, graffiti, nature, personalities, tattoos, etc. It's everywhere. Art needs to breathe and live and hopefully move forward in a progression. Can we get stuck in a rut and return to our old traditional ways of how we welcome art? I think it's possible and I believe we might just be stuck in that rut. What have we accomplished in the last 50 years as painters and artists? We look back to the past and find movements like cubism, surrealism, impressionism, minimalism, etc. Periods that shaped not only the paintings but the artists themselves and the people around them. Today we are over saturated with graffiti styles or dark disturbing subject matters to shock the viewer. We are flooded with the traditional looks of images of landscapes that take no risks and mutual ideas that only look good in a living room but adds nothing to the movement. Abstracts that add color, but no opinions to our complicated political environment. We want change, but we wouldn't know it by observing our modern art. Everyone needs to contribute and everyone does, as an artist, it's our job to emphasise and project that influence and change, enlighten the world with our reflections of our styles and fashion. Paint what people want to see or need to see, something new, something different.