Greetings:
I've thought about responding to this for quite some time, but I wasn't sure if I should.
I've decided to take my chances.
You begin by saying:
"In past, there were explosions in the art world. Monumental instances of greatness, spawned by folks such as Duchamp, Picasso and Miro (to name just a few)."
--This doesn't describe much of 'the past'--these artists all lived in the past one hundred or so years.
Next, you state:
"But when the Art World uprooted itself and found it's way to The New World, it lost something."
--The 'Art World' focused its attention on the 'New World' pretty much during these very same one hundred years or so. The only 'explosion' you find worth mentioning, pretty much occurred at the exact same time as this 'loss of something'.
"Ever since the Abstract Expressionist movement, art has become quite boring."
--The Abstract Expressionist movement was the first American art movement to be recognized as 'legitimate' by artists and critics from Europe, who, up to that point, had viewed all American art as 'folk' art, not 'fine' art. You menion AbEx as if it was a wonderful achievement, yet this movement CAME FROM the 'New World'--precisely the place where you say art 'lost something' upon its arrival.
"I look through Elle Decor, Modern Painter and Art Forum to see that in 50 years, NOTHING has changed about the popular styles of art. I think Andy Warhol was the last great renegade as he was one of the first pioneers of conceptual art."
--Yet another contradiction. Warhol painted around forty years ago, and if nothing has changed in 50 years as you say, you are INCLUDING Warhol. Yet you say Warhol was the last of the 'greats'. THEN, you mention conceptual art, as if it, too, is great--yet conceptual art only began about THIRTY years ago. So, again, if nothing new (and, I assume, new is good) has happened in the last 50 years, then you must rule out both Warhol AND conceptual art. (Yet, you don't...)
"There is one renegade that has managed to push the realm of crafting into the realm of the fine arts and that artist is Dale Chihuly."
--Oops, he's only made it big within the last fifteen to twenty years. You've now reduced your 'no good art in the last 50 years' statement, down to the last TWENTY years.
"When I evaluate the quality of artists' whollistic expressions, I look for a sense of Godliness in the works. I can feel the presence of Divinity in certain works and none in others. When viewing Dale's work and intallations, I actually hear choirs of angelic song, and I am left breathless."
--Chihuly's work sure is pretty, I'll give it that.
"Since I was very young and first fell in love with the expressions of Monet, I experienced that Divinity of artistic expression. I then realized what great art truely is, and have committed my life to creating just that."
--Not to seem smug, but if you have 'realized what great art truely is', could you fill in the rest of us? People have been debating what art is, and what art isn't, since at least the time of Aristotle--and probably before: more than two millennia ago. If you have truly had this realization, you could do humanity a great service by sharing your insights with the world, not just a few select artists who see things as you do.
"Now I am looking for others who feel as passionate as I, so that we may communicate and develop commrodory, so that our expressions may be enhanced. Is there anyone with an uncanny sense of artistic greatness wihtin them? Not just someone who is trying to make a living, but someone who's religion is art, who's temple is the gallery and who's Gods are the Masters? If so, please E-mail me and we can help each other to create the Divine Expressions that lie within our souls."
--Here I must ask several questions. If you have had this realization, and you 'know' what 'great art truely is', then why do you need anyone else's help? If anyone else also 'knows' what 'great art truely is', then why would that person need YOUR help?
I can see having other artists around for the friendship, or for inspiration, but you say that you need these other artists to 'help each other create'. What exactly do you mean by this? Do you mean, to physically work on each other's art? Or, simply to offer critiques, constructive criticism, moral support? Or, do you need guidance on how to create the ideas you have in your mind?
All of these are valid purposes for associating with other artists, but from your statement, you seem to say that you are already at a level where you wouldn't need this sort of collaboration.
I'm pretty confident in my own work, and the direction in which I am headed, artistically. I associate with other artists, but more for marketing guidance than for technical, compositional, or conceptual guidance. My work is created for my own enjoyment, and the fact that it does sell, is a pleasant consequence, but not the cause of its creation.
(As an atheist, however, I am probably not the type of artist for whom you are looking.)
Still, I'm curious about what, exaclty, you ARE searching for; and what you hope to achieve by finding the artists whom you seek.
Keith.
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