Art: 21 - Art in the 21st Century (Seasons One & Two)

I finished watching Seasons 1-3 of Art: 21. My daughter has watched almost every single episode with me, too. It’s a very interesting series although we both enjoyed the first two seasons far better than the third.

There were several artists that interested me but two from the first season especially struck me:.

• Sally Mann lives in the south with no electricity and produces her art in old-timey ways. And it is absolutely amazingly beautiful. What I think impressed me most is that she stays so true to herself and also because her kids were so clearly impressed with who she was even though they claimed they had never had a mother.

• John Feodorov’s art keeps coming back to me because everything he does is a presentation of the commodifiation of American spirituality – typically the New Age commidification of Native American spirituality. I think fundamentalism is equally a commodification of spirituality.

Very interesting series. Makes you want to release your creative side.