ku # 480 ~ what's new pussycat?

Rain, rain, rain, and more rain • click to embiggenRobert Hughes, when writng about how to evaluate Art, suggests that one standard is 'the degree to which it gives us a fresh intimation of Form.' (a reminder, Form is the coherence and structure underlying life).

Basically, what he is saying is that cliche (as he puts it - 'the ten thousandth camera-club imitation of a picture by Ansel Adams') just doesn't cut it. In his essay Making Art New, Hughes writes about the struggle/challenge Artists face when trying to create 'fresh' Art. In the end he quotes T.S. Eliot -

... Each venture
is a new beginning ...
... what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been
discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one
cannot hope
To emulate - but there is no competition -
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again ...