Collective or collaborative art is simply a camel with attitude.
COLLABORATION, SYNCHRONICITY AND THE CAMEL
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THE SELF-CENTERED, THE COLLECTIVE AND THE ATEMPORAL
While the cult of the heroic individual artist will seemingly continue forever, collaboration around shared philosophies, shared knowledge and that a work of art is not necessarily anchored to a specific individual, time or place may well be the most effective response to the time in which we find ourselves – past, present and future as one.
NAKED, NUDE and THE REVERENTIAL SELFIE
Perhaps as a society we’ve actually grown up. Having seen episode one of Bridgeton and social and emotional suppression taken to extremes, lived through the sexual revolution of the late 60s when for some all ‘rules’ went out of the window, to whatever we have today...
CENSURE, PROPRIETY AND THE JAILED ARTIST
There is nothing new about artists poking the bear for a variety of causes from government inaction to government action
MORAL RIGHTS, MORAL INDIGNATION AND A LIFETIME OF SOOT.
Michaelangelo, though, was somewhat different. Half a millennium after he painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling the then pope decided to have the accumulated candle soot cleaned off. What the cleaning revealed was intense colour. Michaelangelo, being long dead, might well have insisted on having it cleaned sooner if he’d known how little care the Catholic church was going to take of it.
APOCALYPTIC WALLPAPER AND THE EXCUSE OF ABSTRACTION
Pollock himself believed that there was a section of the art world that regarded his as a decorator.