Making a New Art Form

I came across this article the other day, and I thought it was pretty interesting.
I haven't had the chance to read the full thing, just the first two sections.

But I liked the first section about trying to create a new art form, and how anything that is made can't really be "new" or "original" because everything is invariably based off of something else.

We discussed this same issue of "originality" in art a few weeks ago, but I thought it was interesting to see it pop-up elsewhere.

 I mean, it's a true statement, we can't separate ourselves from our backgrounds and knowledge. If you sit down to make art, you can't just "make" something original (and if you think you do, it's extremely unlikely that it hasn't been done before).

But it is interesting to see it elsewhere because you don't hear people talking about this kind of thing often.
Anyways, here's the article, take a look.



http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/articles/lisbon.html

-Thomas Holland