I think it comes down to the society we have created where the expectation of something for nothing pervades every aspect of the retail market
AVARICE, STUPIDITY AND FAME.
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WHO STILL DRAWS AND WHAT DO THEY MEAN BY DRAW?
This all begs the question though of the value of drawing in this day and age. When McLuhan wrote that the medium was the message back in the 60s he also noted that we were still using the ideas of the mechanical age to evaluate the present. Linear perspective obviously falls into that category as does tonal rendering in a throwback to the Renaissance. Given how many artists and the general public still use these measures to evaluate the worth of art you have to wonder if anything has changed in the half century since McLuhan. Is drawing as a concept a universal norm, a learned technique or something else?
VOIDING THE Â 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 EXPLOITATION OF EXPECTATION
The internet has democratised access to the visual arts but is the result an advance in culture or has it reduced culture to its lowest common denominator