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Re: need a few artists opinions.
Posted:
Sep 9, 2005 10:08 AM
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So will you agree to be ina show of the "regulars" here with the coyote?
I am looking to May 06 and jut those of us who have stuck it out with each other?
Coyote Real
> Hey Coyote, I was more interested in the picture
> itself as an example of what is "dense" "subtle"
> multi-layered work. The kind of work that gets hung
> on walls much to the delight of panels that pick it,
> but to the confusion of its audience.
>
> I keep my view fixed on everything. From art to
> international politics to what an ass in Germany says
> about the advent of hurricane Katrina. It's a big
> job, but one 99 percent of artists are incapable of.
>
>
> I can only believe what MAEP says about itself, that
> to the best of its ability it picks that which it
> believes to be the best, according to its view, art
> for its shows. Maybe the artists in Minnesota, or
> those elected to serve on the MAEP panel, have a
> jaundiced eye.
>
> I too spent time among the Soth photographs. And, as
> I said before, I wasn't sure they didn't display a
> negative view of their subjects. Maybe the choice of
> the Soth photographs came before his rapid success?
> Can an artist know what a panel wishes to see? Is
> art really the success of a formula?
>
> If successful art can be analyzed for its content, if
> it can be broken down, then more successful art can
> be constructed in its wake. Add a dollop of
> aesthetics, which can be garnered at art school, and
> careers are launched.
>
> Remember the "Monkeys" pop group? (And possibly
> every group since) A fabrication, if I remember, of
> a television producer to sell to a waiting audience.
> Maybe art has achieved this level. Dope the
> audience and then provide the product. I think
> that's why such long explanations are needed on the
> wall and in handouts. To painfully explain what the
> artist is intending and the extreme importance of
> the work. It's funny, really.
>
> Everything I post has to do with art because politics
> is art and all art is political. What is amazing is
> that my view stands by itself within this site.
>
> Did anyone read the new Nidra Poller article in
> Commentary this month? The one exposing the
> purported shooting of a Palestinian yoot that was
> used to help initiate the second Intifada resulting
> in thousands of deaths in the Middle East, as a
> construction, a fraud, so as to escalate the use of
> children as suicide bombers? I thought not.
>
> And seemingly unrelated current events and the view
> they raise in the minds of artists affect what
> eventually is produced; be it a play in Scotland, a
> picture hung on a wall in the city hall of San
> Francisco or a camera shoved up some asshole in a
> video at a "major metropolitan art museum". Or, for
> whatever reason, yet another trip around the world
> with the incumbent photographic detritus for
> instructing slantheads back home as to their
> instransigent provincial stupidity in not being able
> to recognize their own ugliness. That's why I watch
> everything, and listen to everything. (Within my
> limitations)
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