I agree with Chris that competent and beautiful are not always go together.
The word "beauty" belongs only to the elite of artworks.
Boris Shoshensky

-- "Chris Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
These pious hand-wringings are no substitute for a complete reformation of
art
education.

Because the example given (the art student whose senior project was the
termination of her own pregnancy) was just a little more controversial than
the rest of the banality cultivated by the current system.

(I just suffered through 100,000 square feet of it at an exhibit of "emerging
artists" at Chicago's Merchandise Mart last weekend)

Going back to the "rigorous training" of life drawing is not enough - because
rigor needs to have a purpose -- a vision --an ethos.

The goal has to be beauty -- not rigor or technical competence -- and those
who teach drawing have to be those whose drawings are beautiful and thrilling
-- not just competent.










"One cannot be liberated from fetters one has never worn..."

aesthete aesthete
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:14:11 -0700

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