A Note About Our Frued Conversation

So to catch up my blogging from last week, I forgot to mention one of the things that I found most interesting about the conversations we had about Frued in class. The topic that I am reffering to is the one where we discussed the comunication and understanding of the subconcious in its relation to how it affects artists.

To catch up on the point that we were making, the discussion was suggesting that the artist must successfully tap into their subconcious to derive the best creative work they can create. To which once we had decided that this is indeed what Frued would say on the subject, we began to talk about how interesting the concept of tapping the subconcious in creation of a piece of work can be. The biggest point deriving from this concept was suggesting that if an artist must tap into his subconcious to create art, that the viewer of the artwork would be exposed and expected to derive meaning from the origin's subconcious. Thus, we concieved the possibility of artists being able to communicate on a seperate level from normal conversation, a level of subconcious thought so to speak.

This was the most interesting to me because I had never considered this possibility previously, and really enjoyed the concept of a secret language between the best of artists. When brought up in class, we initially shunned the idea, but I think that there is some merit here that we are not considering. The key feature to which would be the concept of analyzing art amongst peers. When looking at a work and discussing the meanings and other important information that can be derived from it, we are simply talking about exactly what the artist intended to communicate through his/her subconscious as according to our experiences through art. When really considered like this, I feel that the secret language is at work all the time and frequently goes unnoticed to the bystanders who consistently overlook it when not considering art. Thus in the end I feel that the secret language is more present that we would think and that it may be a key feature to deriving the true understanding of art.

How do you feel about this concept?