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Teaching art: an aesthetic dog's breakfast : Comments
By Jane Gooding-Brown, published 14/7/2010'All you need is a pencil …' and courage to be an art teacher in the 21st century.
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I'm not sure; I don't know much about him and have never seen any of his work as far as I recall. It's very difficult isn't it when considering conceptual and performance art. I often wonder though if their point couldn't be made in some other way. Like I wonder how what he did to the shark (2 really wasn't it coz the first one didn't last) - is different from the rat killing (not that I am fond of sharks or rats).
I wonder how subsequent generations will consider it. Maybe like we all think about pop art (remember - big cans of Campbell soup and the like). I wonder how Titian would regard it.
You recall when Yoko Ono had an art exhibition and everyone turned up (media and such) to see canvasses that were blank or just had a dot or two on them. From the sounds of it she was demonstrating that power and media can sell the ridiculous or even nothing to undiscerning masses. Very interesting.
I notice that a lot of artists - even since Barry Humphries' university days (remember Shoe Scape and his custard on the pile of books etc) have been sniggering at public gullibility. I think it's time we got the message. Like this one -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2007/jun/13/art
The artist bet someone that people would pay as much for faeces if it was from an 'artist', as they would for gold. So help me Pete some idiots did just that.
It's high time for critical evaluation and standards that connect art to the past; the future and to the now as in - to other bodies of knowledge. I think maybe some of the curators and people on boards of galleries are very suspect too. I wonder how many artists; especially those who are commissioned, have links to the people who make decisions about what to promote.
(and Hi too floatinglili and Poirot - yes! I recognize exactly what you're saying. A lovely way to learn.).
pynch