“A CONCISE OUTLINE OF THE 5-POINTER ANTOA COUNTDOWN” BY RALF G WILL = RGW23C

Authors

  • Ralf G Will

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53555/nnel.v9i5.1689

Keywords:

ANTOA, Anthropology, Art, Benchmark, Bricolage, Condition, Context, Countdown, Creativity, Expressionism, Footprint, Language, Liminality, Meaning, Mixed Media, Old-Meets, New, Photography, Poets, Pop-Art, Relations, Renewal, Skill, Social, Symbol, Upheaval, Universal.

Abstract

Aim of this article is a concise overview of ANTOA from Point 1 to 5. It is also a comprehensive selection of comments and annotations to the various benchmarks that form an unusual perimeter, encircling the social context of creative expression.

While Point 1 looks for individual footprint and intrinsic character, Point 2 deals with environmental concern and how Art builds social relations viceversa becomes tool for conscientising communal dissent.

Point 3 explains the old-meets-new condition whereby relevant Art supports sensible skill upheaval and innovative presentation. Trendy convention changes to refreshing renewal of mindful invention.Point 4 is pure nature, the abstraction of once relevant and definite objects, impressing edgy sentiments on keen consumers and practitioners alike. Often misunderstood as child play, the abstraction needs to have a beginning and an end, and may not contain meaning. Even though it satisfies curiosity and owns an excessively provocative price tag. Point 5 illustrates value, meaning and symbol, and returns to memory and experience as creators of history.The social construction of Art calls for meaning and value and tightens the net of inter-human relations, no matter in the stone age or the controversial period termed modernity or contemporary Art. Meaning has indeed come from social acceptance of the creative flow, the free spirit that paradoxically works best in scientific way, endowing Art with a certain dialect of symbolic language. Weaving individual relations into a social fabric of communal meaning.

Author Biography

  • Ralf G Will

    Ralf G Will, born in Namibia, came to Germany with his parents in 1965 and grew up in Hamburg, Cologne and Munich. He took first literary steps as editor of his high-school journal near Munich and returned to Africa in 1983. After working as guide for photographic safaris and studying Anthropology and Politics, he was banned from the University of Cape Town in 1987. Charge: Resistance against forced segregation. He had started his interview project into the „Role of the Artist in Society“ in 1986 and published the original talks in 2011. Mr Will took his degree in 1997 and has worked as photographer, writer, Art critic and researcher, music and sports promoter, and as tour operator ever since.

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RG Will: ABSTRACTIONISM, 2020.

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Published

2023-05-31

How to Cite

Will, R. G. (2023). “A CONCISE OUTLINE OF THE 5-POINTER ANTOA COUNTDOWN” BY RALF G WILL = RGW23C. International Journal of Advance Research in Education & Literature (ISSN 2208-2441), 9(5), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.53555/nnel.v9i5.1689