Any and every artist is in the end self-taught and open-ended learning is a cornerstone of creativity.
YOU CAN’T BE ANY GOOD IF YOU ARE SELF-TAUGHT. GET YOURSELF TO AN ART SCHOOL!
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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]
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.
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.
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.
ART IS FINISHED. OR IS IT?
A recent controversy over the work of Damien Hirst has brought the idea of conceptual and finished dates into question.