of course you have to weigh in on this one, gabey! all that philosophy has you primed for questions like this one. i have to disagree, though, on your concept of "art." there has to be some element of craftsmanship involved. andy warhol, who irritated many with his deification of household objects, still had the incredible skill to depict it. there must, in my mind, be some synthesis of intention and craftsmanship. art is not just whatever you feel. blue ducks in bow ties are not art. they are paper towels. (sorry, grandma.)and no, maybe the title "art" is not a prize, but it is something that you earn.
i do not think that the market actually dictates what is art. i think that it often misses art entirely. my point was merely that the market does get to dictate what the larger audience gets to see, therefore informing its idea of "art."
but now, as much as i would really really love to stay up and think about this some more, i have to go to bed. i have an opening at the Front Gallery tomorrow evening!
About Me
- Heather Tinnaro
- Asheville, North Carolina, United States
- It will be a few years until I can step back on board with an eye to staying a while. At the moment, I still live in the mountains of North Carolina, in a small house with a piano in the parlor and a teenager in the good bedroom. But it is time to start dreaming. The nest is preparing to empty, and when it does, I should be ready to fly. Or float.
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But those dear little duckies... not art... I fear their little pink hearts will be crushed when they hear it! But what of the person who drew them, or rendered them in Illustrator, before they were printed on paper towels? Ain't that art? Sure, it's cheesy... but it's surely art! If it's not, what it it?
And what of conceptual pieces - Duchamps' ready-mades took no craftmanship whatsoever, so... were they not art? Just trying to get a sense of the boundaries.
And if this is annoying, we don't have to have this conversation. But I think it's a fun territory to explore.
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