But, as I say, vanished art has a habit of refusing to go away.
Third, ambiguity in art can intentionally (or unintentionally) increase the interest in a work of art by refusing to allow easy categorization and interpretation.
This indeed is the true art of heroin – to refuse life, to refuse society; terrifyingly, in every absolute sense: to just say "no".
She titled her beautiful, fragile, hanging wire structures – a new form of abstract, line-based art – Drawings Without Paper, refusing to call them sculptures.
The new aesthetic sensibility of modernity, which called for the "progressive elimination of the human, all too human elements" predominant in romantic and naturalistic production, resulted in creating an art of figures instead of an art of adventures, an art that refused solely to report the world, but that vowed to create it (Obras, 3: 355 5655–56).
What we get are frank conversations: sometimes a little combative, sometimes a little bit showboating, but mostly well-articulated positions about the importance of art, independence and refusing to do anything the easy way.
More than three-quarters (76%) of the inmates took intermittent ART; 9.0% refused ART and the remaining 15% took continuous ART throughout the study period.
June was outraged about the continuous injustice of the world of male artists who used women, usually nude and on a pedestal, as total objects in so much of their own art, yet refused to consider women painters as equals.
Burden, who has had himself crucified on a Volkswagen and been shot in the arm in the name of conceptual art, refused even to try.
