A damn amazing song (but then, which Regina song isn't?).
On a superficial level, in "All the Rowboats", Regina seems to be lamenting for the timeless masterpieces that are serving maximum sentences in galleries which are likened to tombs and mausoleums in the song's chorus. It's definitely an interesting perspective.
However, I feel that she's also talking about artists who do not want to be ogled at and celebrated the way these masterpieces are. They want to share their art with the world but they don't want special treatment nor the celebrity status. They don't want to be cut off from the world. Their art is formed from their life experiences - from their connection with the rest of the world - and if they are placed in a metaphorical glass coffin, they'll forget how to live and therefore, they'll forget how to sing.
Another undertone that keeps hitting me is how those attending these galleries - the people speaking various languages - aren't there to experience the art but to merely view them, whisper their judgment and pass on to the next item on display, almost cheapening the works of the artists who put their heart and soul into their work not to have them be judged but to be "experienced". The result is a sterile environment in which these masterpieces are trapped to the judgmental of the casual onlookers.
I feel like I'm only scratching the surface here, though. There's much more to it that I can't quite articulate (the words just aren't coming) but I hope I can just click "like" on a comment where someone does articulate what I feel like I'm unable to say (not to discredit the various interesting views we have on here already, 'course).
I partially agree on that point you take about real masterpieces being celebrated, though I feel there is a dark and sad fate for an artist that your work becomes so good and timeless that it becomes unreachable for most people by being locked up in a museum, for whatever reason that may happen.
I partially agree on that point you take about real masterpieces being celebrated, though I feel there is a dark and sad fate for an artist that your work becomes so good and timeless that it becomes unreachable for most people by being locked up in a museum, for whatever reason that may happen.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed the "grave diggers" theme by regina. Thats something that I've asociated with the title of the song but anyway it might be over analizing and makes me feel a little crazy to think of it LOL. But it was actually my first impression when I heard the song, though overtime I've noticed other more imortant themes here.
Love the song, I'm a violinist and theres something about "Art" and "professional" "academic" music that there really is to pitty about.
A damn amazing song (but then, which Regina song isn't?).
On a superficial level, in "All the Rowboats", Regina seems to be lamenting for the timeless masterpieces that are serving maximum sentences in galleries which are likened to tombs and mausoleums in the song's chorus. It's definitely an interesting perspective.
However, I feel that she's also talking about artists who do not want to be ogled at and celebrated the way these masterpieces are. They want to share their art with the world but they don't want special treatment nor the celebrity status. They don't want to be cut off from the world. Their art is formed from their life experiences - from their connection with the rest of the world - and if they are placed in a metaphorical glass coffin, they'll forget how to live and therefore, they'll forget how to sing.
Another undertone that keeps hitting me is how those attending these galleries - the people speaking various languages - aren't there to experience the art but to merely view them, whisper their judgment and pass on to the next item on display, almost cheapening the works of the artists who put their heart and soul into their work not to have them be judged but to be "experienced". The result is a sterile environment in which these masterpieces are trapped to the judgmental of the casual onlookers.
I feel like I'm only scratching the surface here, though. There's much more to it that I can't quite articulate (the words just aren't coming) but I hope I can just click "like" on a comment where someone does articulate what I feel like I'm unable to say (not to discredit the various interesting views we have on here already, 'course).
I partially agree on that point you take about real masterpieces being celebrated, though I feel there is a dark and sad fate for an artist that your work becomes so good and timeless that it becomes unreachable for most people by being locked up in a museum, for whatever reason that may happen.
I partially agree on that point you take about real masterpieces being celebrated, though I feel there is a dark and sad fate for an artist that your work becomes so good and timeless that it becomes unreachable for most people by being locked up in a museum, for whatever reason that may happen.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed the "grave diggers" theme by regina. Thats something that I've asociated with the title of the song but anyway it might be over analizing and makes me feel a little crazy to think of it LOL. But it was actually my first impression when I heard the song, though overtime I've noticed other more imortant themes here.
Love the song, I'm a violinist and theres something about "Art" and "professional" "academic" music that there really is to pitty about.