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WHO STILL DRAWS AND WHAT DO THEY MEAN BY DRAW?

This all begs the question though of the value of drawing in this day and age. When McLuhan wrote that the medium was the message back in the 60s he also noted that we were still using the ideas of the mechanical age to evaluate the present. Linear perspective obviously falls into that category as does tonal rendering in a throwback to the Renaissance. Given how many artists and the general public still use these measures to evaluate the worth of art you have to wonder if anything has changed in the half century since McLuhan. Is drawing as a concept a universal norm, a learned technique or something else?

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VOIDING THE  VOID

Sure, the abyss is great for staring into. But if screaming is your thing, you’ll want to go with the void [anon]

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BANANA POLITICS OR WHATEVER YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH

Given three hundred years from now the baby boomers, millennials and Gen Z will be long gone and the ultra-rich will be camped on Mars thumbing their noses at the have-nots. ‘Comedian’ may well be an apt description.

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THE NOVELTY OF LIFE AND DEATH IN THE ART MARKET

Are these the natural filters we have come to accept Novelty, boredom and death? Perhaps we of the 21st century can’t see the wood for the trees and will have to wait a century or a millennium to find out what has survived and what was worth preserving but who, or what circumstance, actually render that decision, if indeed it is even rational, remains a mystery.

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THE AGE OF MORTALITY

The candidates for this year’s Turner prize all work with their political and social pasts, injustice, prejudice and colonialism as the reworking of history seemingly exists to teach us lessons. While art has always been utilised as propaganda, those lessons essentially fall on deaf ears.

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