Comment on Irony

"Irony is, of course, indispensable, but it comes later, it is the 'eternal fine-tuner,' as Norwid called it; it is more like the windows and doors without which our buildings would be solid monuments, not habitable spaces. Irony knocks very useful holes into our walls, but without walls, it could perforate only nothingness."
A Defense of Ardor: Essays By Adam Zagajewski
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

"amazing and forgettable, wonderful and oddly hollow result”
David Foster Wallace, Television Essays

The above quotes are from two contemporary authors. David Foster Wallace is a Mcarther Foundation winner and Adam Zagjewski is a successful poet. They are comments on the over abundant use of Irony in writing. I have had really no luck looking for similar criticism of Irony in the discourse of visual arts. I feel that the same thing is currently happening in the visual arts. Much like Zagajewki, it seems that the use of irony would be better served as a part of the over all construction of an image, poem. Images that rely primarily on one part of a total sum seem likely to become flat, uninteresting and unimportant in the grand scheme. We should be working in order to gain maximized result. Limiting ones work logically creates limited work. I feel that the path of irony is the wrong way to explore the visual world.