Hanne Darboven's Clockwise From Right

The artistic display at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery of Hanne Darboven titled, “Clockwise from right”, proves to bring light upon the thoughts of Friedrich Nietzshe. One of Nietzsche’s important topics includes the idea of a rational and intuitive man. This essay will explore the question of whether Nietzshe was right when he said that rationality was artificially created to protect the weak. In a society where there are many practical careers, such as accountants and scientists, it is difficult to reach back to the ancient Greek society to understand how the rational and the intuitive blended together in a flourishing society. Nietzsche, however, might show a way in which the rational could make an attempt at becoming more intuitive in today’s society. Hanne Darboven was a German artist who is primarily known for her systematic charts, sequences of numbers, and her long strands of looped forms that evoke handwriting. Before becoming an artist, Darboven first trained as a pianist, and in the 1960s she studied graphic design in Hamburg, Germany. In 1966, Darboven left Germany for New York, where she met and exhibited with several artists of the burgeoning Minimalist and Conceptual art movements. Although Darboven only lived
In the ancient Greek society, the rational man was the person who was inartistic and focused solely on completing the principal needs of society. The intuitive man was artistic and blatantly disregarded the principal needs of society. There is obviously a big conflict in today’s society between the rational man and the intuitive man, however in the Greek society they were able to live in the same community together because there was balance between the principal needs being met and the intellectual mind of the artist being explored. There was an ideal way to live in the Greek society, and it was definitely the way of the intuitive