Ever So Transitory is Art Form

Ever-changing form,
how so transitory … art,
as a depiction
of our reflection of life;
and of what is ‘beautiful.’

As psychiatrist,
Carl Jung made observations
about our Worldview;
how art has modified it;
how wars transmogrify it.

Before The Great War,
The war of nineteen fourteen,
life was simpler;
so much more sentimental;
reality not brutal.

And then the war came…
Modern art in postwar years,
Surrealistic —
Different forms of expression:
Picasso, Dali — as champions.

War-fashioned artists,
Breton, Gascogne, Buñuel …
Paradoxical —
Their art form ‘irrational’
Like the very war itself.

Then peace intervened
during the years that followed,
until World War Two;
atomic war engagement,
with peace  — once more disrupted.

Art imitates life.
Post-Impressionism …
is the new art form;
 a Social Realism …
veering towards abstraction.

New art movements,
glossed as ‘Contemporary,’
over-simplistic —
reflecting bipolar states —
between ‘The West’ and ‘The East.’  

The Capital West,
with Democracy slogan.
The Socialist East,
led by the USSR,
in virile opposition.

A new aesthetics —
Abstract Expressionism …
begins to surface …
internationally —
As a dominant movement.

New art forms morphing
during the nineteen fifties;
with such Pop artists,
like Warhol and Lichtenstein —
‘Reactionary’ artists.

Art in our time frame,
the twenty first century,
becomes dynamic.
The surging of ‘Bio Art,’
in sync with science research.

This social art form …
‘Relational Aesthetics —
now comes to the fore …
as ‘Critical Theory’ —
The new Post Modernism.

Art in our time frame,
gleaned from a wealth of sources,
is quite eclectic;
technology impacted …
Digital — with Internet.

Art forms revisioned,
and art forms re-envisioned …
with intensity —
to produce new art genres …
The ‘Ugly’ — now ‘Beautiful.’

A Brave-New-World Art,
with Nouveau Art the custom,
expanding the mind;
New form of revolution,
universally bounded.

Art forms globalized
across time and across space,
as ‘Mass Media.’
Art movement across borders …
expanding realities.

Art imitates life …
imitating art itself;
a simulacrum —
‘Copy’ as ‘Original.’
All art forms re-envisioned.

Newspeak ‘Alternatives.’
Like Alice-In-Wonderland,
nothing is what it seems.
The ‘Ugly’ is the ‘Lovely’:
All Transitory Art Forms.

All is relative.
Art has a new market price.
All politicized.
Beware thus of deceptions.
And art is no exception.

Ever-changing form,
how so transitory … art,
as a depiction
of our reflection of life;
and of what is ‘beautiful.’