Art is ‘difficult’ while Craft is ‘easy’, and Art is based on ‘ideas, feelings and visual qualities’ while Craft is the ‘right use of tools and materials’. Do any of these labels actually help? Probably not.
Not that long ago I could define Abstract art as work without a formal, recognisable subject and essentially, centripetal.
Appropriation of the artefacts of the past has been rationalised by museums las the necessary preservation of human achievement.
WHEN DEATH BECOMES ‘PASSING’ AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSES ARE LEARNED FROM TV DRAMA, WHAT CHANCE DOES EXPRESSIONIST FIGURATIVE PAINTING HAVE?
I think the message here is don’t wait for self-serving governments or tech billionaires to pass on a few cents.