There is a reality to being an artist today that seems to be at odds with public perception.
THE PRECIOUS HAND
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digital art
GOOGLE AND IKEA HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR. STEVE JOBS, NOT SO MUCH.
I have no doubt that visual artists are going to have to adapt and train themselves to use digital tools. After all, if an ageing David Hockney can show the way with an iPad as his main creative tool, then who are we lesser mortals to argue the toss.
I STARTED A JOKE – HAVEN’T I HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE?
I also read this week of a Ghanaian artist who went from selling his paintings for $100 a pop on the streets of Accra to selling for sums in excess of $600,000 on the streets of New York. Lucky him. Let’s hope his sense of humour is in place when he passes his use-by date in a year’s time and Larry Gagosian moves on to his next big discovery. After all, you’re worth a lot more dead than alive. Ask Basquiat, who died at just the right time. Now that is a joke.
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 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.
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...