In an earlier blog I presented my stance on art, that it is a means of communicating feelings in general whether it comes to an issue, or a reflection of the author's or artist's heart. When the question was posed during Language Arts pertaining to the distance one should put between the author and his work I immediately began applying the concept of hyperreality to the situation because after all the question deals with art which can be commonly threaded with hyperreality. Say someone writes a TV show like The Simpsons, or for that matter, Family Guy, which portrays a disfunctional family, and somewhat parodies life in general; using extreme cases to bring out flaws in society in which the author critiques. The author may deny that this picture of family is healthy and that all families should be this way because it may be his utmost intention to discourage this kind of view of family, thus critiqueing it to show people the insanity of living in such a manner. Without the authors disclaimer though, it is hard to see what kind of an affect they are trying to have on their audiences. In fact they could actually be making light of a disorderly family presenting it as a norm, a celebration of disorder in the family. It can be hard to draw the line where the author stands in all of this. I do not think this excuses the affect it has on its viewers. The author might claim though, that his audience misinterpreted his piece and that he was not trying to be demeaning to the family structure. However, he still wrote the script and presented it to viewers on which it has an impact through hyperreality. Reality and hyperreality are sometimes hard to distinguish between and whether the author knows it or not he is portraying a piece that could victimize people to hyperreality. I also still hold to the view that inevitable art communicates truths held by the author. They are presenting what they believe, how they view things, so the work lies close to their heart and the distance between the artist and his work becomes very thin.

What did I just write?