Collings has stated that the art of today has no connection to the past ‘in any real way’ implying that art has transformed into its own 'world' with no connections to the world as we know it.
He goes onto state that art today is mostly ‘visually boring’.....
Art will always have connections to the past. Egon Schiele once quoted "Art cannot be modern.. Art is primordially eternal".
Meaning that what is labelled as modern today will once become a thing of the past until art reaches further new realms and quashes what we consider to be modern in this present day.
I can see Colling's viewpoint in that some people believe that art is simply represented through paint, and that these days a pickled animal is considered as art, whether i believe this to be true or not is irrelevant. There does seems to be a lack of paintings and people recognised for having a great skill in that area coming to the forefront of the art world. Take the Turner Prize for example, since 1984 untill the present day, have only 4 people won on the merit of painting, and we celebrate weird and wonderful pieces such as un-made beds, transexual inspired decorated ceramics, video installations, pickled animals and wooden sheds which turn into a boat.
To people who know nothing about art, i can understand their fears and comments on the irrelevance of art when we award prizes to such exhibits and to be honest sometimes i am inclined to agree. It is no wonder that the comments are made that art does not connect to the past, but when art develops and moves on and we learn of weirder and more exciting artists and works coming to the forefront of the art world we can only embrace it, whether we like it or not.
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