16 March, 2018
藝術不是為了改變社會，而是改變你自己
前幾天看了《礦井下的彩虹》(The Pitmen Painters)舞台劇，講述發生於英國30年代的真人真事，一班礦工如何從零開始接觸藝術。
當中一幕，導師叫工人們以洪水為題作畫，有位礦工Jimmy畫了一隻布靈頓鬥牛梗，其他人一直評論畫中的狗兒意義何在、狗兒身體的大小比例與旁邊穀倉如何成強烈對比，而Jimmy一直不停重覆大聲說：「一切都沒有特殊意義，我就是只想畫一隻布靈頓鬥牛梗。」
這齣劇諷刺了許多人對藝術是為評論而評論、藝術如何被定型為上流社會的專利。
我們不需要為每幅作品、每位畫家的想法，歇力追求一個說法；
而是思考那幅作品帶給你的感受，讓你更了解自己，當你願意開放心靈的時候，就是把藝術帶進你一生的旅程。
人生就變得有趣了。
The Pitmen Painters is a play based on the true story of Ashington Group - a group of Northumbrian miners who started learning art appreciation in 1934. It talks a lot about what is art and its function.
One quote from their art teacher Lyon, “It was perfectly clear that these men had decided views on what they did not want to the class to be. They did not want to be told what was the correct thing to look for in a work of Art but to see for themselves why this should be correct;
in other words, they wanted a way, if possible, of seeing it for themselves.”