"photographed three dimensionally..." How is it possible? Boris Shoshensky
---------- Original Message ---------- From: armando baeza <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Facture Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:49:44 -0700 I some, so called "art', the hands are not even used. The so called artists, take a "person" of his choice ( his choice, being his only contribution) to a machine to be photographed three dimensionally, then from that,exact reproductions in any material in monumental sizes are made. The question or facture or Human creativity is lost along the way some how to me. But it has become the next popular art. mando On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:25 AM, William Conger wrote: > I think it's wrong to say that facture in art depends on some > overtly visible and agitated surface treatment. There is as much > facture in the most glass-smooth Ingres portrait as in the > clumpiest Lucien Freud portrait. And the argument that declares > handiwork over machine work is spurious on the face if it since > what mode of making is lacking some "machine" or tool? Tools are > extensions of the hands and machines are extensions of such tools. > Where does gradual change in degree become radical change in kind? > Where one's weak eyes loose the ability to discern marks? Or when > a prosthetic device enables -- a better lens or even a microscope > -- takes one to the absolute limit of observable evidence? Absurd? > No. Such devices are standard equipment, together with even more > exacting tools such as x-ray, in any serious art conservation > laboratory and they are all crucial to the examination of facture. > > The interesting and salient question is, How does facture in a > particular artwork affect response to that work? By extension, we > can intelligently ask, How does an art era or culturally defined > group of artwork symbolize values through facture? Most certainly, > the question is not the presence or absence of facture in art > objects, but facture of what sort. > > > > ________________________________ > From: armando baeza <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 10:58:44 PM > Subject: Re: Facture > > The same applies to to photorealist sculpture, now so prevalent, > Also not hand made. From photo to computer manufacturing, > and into the galleries. > mando > > On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:40 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> The more I think about it the more I reach the conclusion that >> facture >> is more a cultural sign than a sign of artistic impulse. One of >> the main >> reasons photorealists were reviled was that their facture resembled a >> photograph-was not handmade, unlike the Abstract Expressionists. >> Kate Sullivan ____________________________________________________________ Put your loved ones in good hands with quality senior assisted living. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/BLSrjpYWs6x4WUy13XcoeKorq9dEQ5 hvzdrx6Yrpjm9txHEMKQOWCc2JMXm/
