A Declaration of The Green Arts Movement

Slowly but surely, a new green arts movement is taking shape in the last several years.  The world is witness to the arts and crafts era which also took place in the 1930s, and similar to our forebears, we are making functional art, or turning everyday items into lasting artistic objects that are home-made and reasonably priced.

You can see the products of the green artists being sold on the streets and public markets of Atlanta, San Francisco, and New York.  From solar clocks processed from recycled wine reservoirs to dresses made from reused umbrellas, these things were up for grabs in these places.  Recession Art is what it was termed, lifting from the Depression Art that was in the 1930s.

The green artists consider the scarce luxurious arts catering only to the few rich people as already a disappearing trend.  They discover that the almost 100-year dominion of ideal art, with emphasis on the application techniques, artistry, and social relevance, is already on the downfall.  The campaign arising from the creative thought of Duchamp now dwells in the assembly lines of Koons and Hirst crafting Michael Jackson porcelain sculptures free from the artist’s domain.  The generation of today considers these endeavors decayed already for many years.

From the embers of the not so distant past, the present generation of art enthusiasts is capturing a vibrant ambience giving life to the budding green arts movement.  The green artists seek to go beyond the boundaries between modern art and the crafts, forming portions on the ideas and concepts of modernism, like politics, action, and methods, and endearing themselves to the renewable, natural and recyclable materials.

The artists are of the position that green art must be intentionally collective and shared with the people.  Their masterpieces and art works are not confined to their work stations, but rather must be an interactive endeavor between the green artist, the art work, and the society represented by the people.  The green art that is produced is not an inanimate product, but a connecting piece of art that elicits interaction, deliberations, concepts, innovative manners of looking and contemplating, of socializing and connecting with people.

To sustain social connectivity, the green artists market their products only in the streets, parks, and other public places, where they give virtual lives to their art works.  They give stories with their crafts for people to bring home and relish.  The arts and crafts are defined by the origins of the recycled materials, carrying discussions with their patrons, constantly communicating and interacting both at home and in the work place.  The green artists share their art and their own lives to the basic community, aiming the objective of soothing modern day illnesses like fear, loneliness and depression.

The art produced by green artists is attuned to the people.  They do not sacrifice preserving the Earth over earning money.  They only market those produced by their own toil.  The green artists do not let their work be mass-produced by factories and manufacturing plants simply to satisfy demand.  Their art is people-oriented, created through intercommunication with the general public and co-artisans.  Over the years of study, the green artists discovered that aesthetics arise from cooperation and not selfish individualism.

The green artists declare to have an identity of their own.  They do not ascribe to the ambitious generation of riches from marketing their masterpieces, but they confine themselves with the pursuit of environment-friendly endeavors, and ultimately, they consider it a plateau of accomplishment as a green artist.

These artisans also see themselves as not merely a group of artists.  They see themselves as part of nurturing organization and enlightening genre that cultivate or create what they market.  They are natural farmers, chefs, and bee raisers; they are poets, creative writers, and musicians; environmentalists and sociologists; they are artists in the wide ranging meaning of the word.  The green artists are simply committed to the longing of making the world a better place to live.