Posted on 07/04/2012 1:01:17 PM PDT by OddLane
Art begins in the mind of a creative individual. The artist takes his significant experiences and thoughts as raw material and creates a perceptual embodiment for them. Each artist makes independent judgments about which of his experiences and thoughts are significant. And to the best of his ability and with his unique style, each artist employs the techniques of his perceptual medium of choice. The result is an object that, at its best, has an awesome power to exalt the senses, the intellects, and the passions of those who experience it.
Those individuals who over the centuries accepted art's calling developed it into a vehicle that called upon the highest insights of the human creative vision and demanded exacting skill. The names that evoke in us a sense of greatness - Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Vermeer - stand for those individuals who expanded the range of themes and subjects and developed the repertoire of techniques available to the next generation of artists. Their achievements created the status of the artist as not merely a visionary or a craftsman, but as a special individual in whom both vision and craft are integrated and heightened.
But by about the middle of the nineteenth century, the art world began to lose its confidence. The art world's symptoms of decline were part of the broader intellectual world's slipping into a sense that progress, beauty, optimism, and genuine originality were no longer possible.
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the stupidest thing I've read today, and stated with such unflappable authority. just couldn't go on with the rest of it after that.
I enter a lot of snow sculpture competitions. I take a box and jam it full of snow. I then turn it upside down and remove the box. I then urinate on the snow. I call it THE YELLOW HOLE OF DESPAIR. I usually get an Honorable Mention. I started taking pictures of it and entering the photos in photo competitions. I took first in San Francisco.
Sounds like a rip off of my “Where the huskies go” series.
Similar to my “Black Cat in a Coal Mine at Midnight” and my “Polar Bear in a Snowstorm” series, which was part of my “Studies in Black and White” retrospective.
Similar to my “Black Cat in a Coal Mine at Midnight” and my “Polar Bear in a Snowstorm” series, which was part of my “Studies in Black and White” retrospective.
You posted that the other day. You serious? $4.3 million?
Thanks for this. Unfortunately, it’s a pearl cast into the sty.
You gotta be sh!tt!n me.
Ad Reinhart is obviously a fan of my work!!
Way before that.....guess I am not Ad Reinhart reincarnated....
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