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I MISTAKENLY THOUGHT THAT I WAS AN ORIGINAL. TURNS OUT I AM JUST A MISPLACED DERIVATIVE.
Sales, recognition and respect are just jam in the end but having said that, either Greenberg or Rosenberg, amongst pre-eminent art writers, considered that there was no such thing as progress in art. All art exists at once, in the same time, in the same space – and we’ve now got the internet to prove it.
BY CHANCE, I PRODUCED A PAINTING. AREN’T I CLEVER?
So, what in the end is chance for an artist? There are any number of amateur abstract painters and resin pourers with a firm belief in the physical ability of malleable paint to create something pleasant with little human intervention. It is good that they find simple satisfaction in doing so but, as with Bacon, an understanding of the nature of art as opposed to accident is key.
THE RISING FLOODWATERS, THE IVORY TOWER, THE UNLIMITED BUDGET.
Even Noah, much vaunted survivor of existential flooding, was instructed to preserve only human and animal kind. No mention was made of Art or antiquities.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE ? THE FUTURE IS WITH US WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT
One of the peculiarities of artists is their stubbornness. I
THE ART OF CRAFT OR THE CRAFT OF ART. DOES ANYBODY REALLY CARE?
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.
THE RELEVANCE OF ‘ABSTRACT’ IN THE 21st CENTURY – JUST SEMANTICS?
Not that long ago I could define Abstract art as work without a formal, recognisable subject and essentially, centripetal.
FINDERS-KEEPERS AND THE MORAL INDIGNATION OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATON
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?
WHEN DEATH BECOMES ‘PASSING’ AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSES ARE LEARNED FROM TV DRAMA, WHAT CHANCE DOES EXPRESSIONIST FIGURATIVE PAINTING HAVE?
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LIVING ARTISTS FESTIVAL. AUGUST 2021
STATE SPONSORED ARTS PATRONAGE IS ONE THING BUT MAKING A LIVING AS AN ARTIST, QUITE ANOTHER.
Just how do you create a culture of more than just free entertainment from feel-good events? Essentially this requires a cultural shift of major proportions
OF LINEAR LOGIC, CREATIVITY AND THE RIGHT ANSWER
Something that I have never understood, or even least, appreciated, is the insistence in education that everyone should take mathematics, five days week for the majority of their school lives.
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FOR AGEING FOREIGN MONARCHS AND HORSE RACES – HOW ABOUT ONE FOR THE ARTS?
I think the message here is don’t wait for self-serving governments or tech billionaires to pass on a few cents.