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Critic's
Choice?
The
art community has spent a lot of time and money trying to tell
people what is good and bad art, and
occasionally
they know what they are talking about. However, too often
art critic’s curators, and other art
movers
and shakers are people who love art, but especially love
only there kind of art!! They are
frequently
unkind to art that they do not appreciate or cannot linearly link
from art movement A to
Art
movement B. However the real world does not really work in
linear lines - influences fan out, become
diverse,
coalesce and reformulate into both new and old.
There
has been some bias towards the realist painter over the last 50
years or so, particularly in the last
20
years. Even though I dabble in abstract works, (and I do
enjoy creating “abstracts”). I used to submit to
shows,
and competitions and I remember one particular show I was in, was
entirely biased towards the
abstract
theme. None of the “traditional” works by respected
artists where picked even for an “honorable
mention.”
This type of attitude by art critics (not all thank goodness) can
make some artists wonder what is
happening
with the art community, and how they can overcome this bias.
I
recall several years ago, an old building in New York that was
slated for demolition. The reason this
building
came to prominence was that they discovered some old bathroom
fixtures (urinals) that where
unusual
in design. They where cleaned up and put on display in a
gallery. An art critic put in a glowing
commentary
about the artistic creative ability of the company that made them.
People flocked to the exhibit
and
ended up paying several thousand dollars for them and putting them
in their entrance hallways as an
“art
curios.” Truly…art is in the eye of the beholder... I
guess. Would you call this abstract art?
I
am not going to get into a kicking contest about who is right or
wrong, but I am going to include some links
that
I found interesting. Some of the links are controversial and
you can find all kinds of other links and references
on
the web from artist’s famous and not so famous. If you want to
check out some opinions go to:
or:
or:
One
Artists Quote:
"Artists
are supposedly rebels. It's supposed to be about pushing
boundaries. So why would they expect
success
in a system that basically has nothing to do with them”?
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