What Did the Artist Want to Say?
This question annoys artists, critics and curators alike, because it denies the very life of an artwork, unfolding as it does not in a vacuum and not just by virtue of it having been created, but only in its interactions with the viewer. And yet, art history constantly drives us back to this question.
No matter what the artist may have wanted to say,
art always remains in dialogue with itself and with its history when expanding human worldviews and imagination ever further.
