It seems to be part of the human condition that while we cannot predict future events, as soon as those events happen we find it hard to see how they were anything other than inevitable.
Artist
AS A SELF-CONFESSED ART [AND GRAMMAR] NAZI I CAN ONLY BE APPALLED AT THE DEPTH OF COMMUNITY INDIFFERENCE TO LANGUAGE.
Using language may never be an acceptable way of defining anything and when the audience for a work of art is so poorly equipped in terms not only of language but in coming to terms with their own emotional of intellectual capacity to respond to a work of art without resorting to deconstruction of meaning and semiotics, then the every-increasing divide between artists and their public will only grow wider.
I COULD CHANGE THE COURSE OF ART HISTORY TOMORROW – YOU NEVER KNOW.
Gino Severino the Italian Futurist wrote in 1946
‘ It cannot even be said that peace has come after the war……few people…have faith in their fellow man…ill-will and superficiality are so widespread…that disbelief in men seems justified and the truth is so twisted by private interests that one can hardly believe in truth….’
THE DEATH OF ART VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
…….the plethora of social media sites offering lessons in Abstract painting [with guaranteed success]. Learn to paint like Pollock, or de Kooning, or Picasso or Hoffman in six easy lessons and take on the art world.
GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES – OR IS THAT STRAIGHT LINES? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT REFERS TO.
In my own case, I worry about lack of development in that I don’t have a string or wives or mistresses; I don’t have major changes of style every few years; I don’t have a philosophy based upon grandiose ideas or a philosophy based on philosophy such as that of Wittgenstein or Sartre.
THE REBEL YELL FALLS ON DEAF EARS BUT WE STILL WANT IT NOW
Plato, that man of words who dreamed of an ideal society had no use for poets or artists. Banning them from Utopia was high on his social agenda.