March 28, 2016 - 23:34
"It is often the presence of disability that allows the beauty of an artwork to endure over time" (Siebers 5).
I was intrigued by Judith Scott's art work and how she demonstrated "the freedom both to make art from what she wants and to change the meaning of objects by inserting them into different contexts" (Siebers 17). She took many different things like yarn and sticks and made it into a unique body.
John MacGregor questions, "Does seriousu mental retardation invariably preculude creation of true works art?...Can art, in the fullest sense of word, emerge when intellectual development is massively impaired from birth, and when normal intelelctual emotional maturation has failed to be attained" (Siebers 18-19).
This makes me question what makes an artwork a "true work of art?" What makes Picasso's art different from Scott's art. Why isn't artworks of people with disabilities aren't as prominent in the artistic world as an artworks of people without disablities? Personally I find an artistic genius in artworks like Scott's artwork, or any of the CCW participants. I these artists truly embrace disability aesthetics which "embraces beauty that seems by traditional standards to be broken, and yet it is not less beautiful, but more so, as a result" (Sieber 3).