This blog is here to help jump start the conversation for our seminar. I will ask that discussion questions and comments be posted on line by 5pm the night before class. We will also use this site to plan the newsletter that will be produced as part of the course.
Also, if you can get a gig on an art-related reality TV show, you can get a solo show at Brooklyn Museum...gallery not necessary...talent not necessary.
So maybe I'm the only one, but I've watched the show and there have been some pieces made that I wouldn't have felt bad about making. The format isn't much different than our first year drawing class, and if you take out all the commercial stuff(which most of the artists don't address in their work anyway)it's just a bunch of artists trying to come up with ideas. Does the winner deserve a show at the Brooklyn Museum? Who's to say? If the Brooklyn Museum offered me a show, would I turn it down because I don't think I'm good enough? Would you deny me my show? I don't think so. The sort of reflexive "Work Of Art is evil" position strikes me as a form of thoughtless heckling (your's might not be thoughtless, it might be well reasoned, I'm just speaking generally here).
I only saw one episode and I completely agreed with the judges. The pieces that were awesome were selected as such. The pieces that were not so awesome were heckled by the judges. "Your art does not speak to me." That should be the title of our newsletter.
There are so many things wrong with the show that it would be difficult to know where to begin. The very small fraction of artists that were chosen were most likely not chosen for their ability as much as they were chosen for their personalities and incompatibility with each other. It's exploitative fodder for the masses playing on artistic stereotypes. Is Miles a talented artist? Is he intelligent? Probably. What does the viewer see? They see a depressed neurotic mess that wins all the time. Where is the show that reveals the artist as articulate, intelligent, and well-read? The challenges are great exercises for generating ideas. However, if an artist were to gather all of his work into two different piles, one of failures and one of successes, the failure pile would be much larger. Not every work of art is a masterpiece, nor should it be. I get it. It's a show. It's entertainment. I just don't have to like it, and I don't.
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So maybe I'm the only one, but I've watched the show and there have been some pieces made that I wouldn't have felt bad about making. The format isn't much different than our first year drawing class, and if you take out all the commercial stuff(which most of the artists don't address in their work anyway)it's just a bunch of artists trying to come up with ideas. Does the winner deserve a show at the Brooklyn Museum? Who's to say? If the Brooklyn Museum offered me a show, would I turn it down because I don't think I'm good enough? Would you deny me my show? I don't think so. The sort of reflexive "Work Of Art is evil" position strikes me as a form of thoughtless heckling (your's might not be thoughtless, it might be well reasoned, I'm just speaking generally here).
ReplyDeleteI only saw one episode and I completely agreed with the judges. The pieces that were awesome were selected as such. The pieces that were not so awesome were heckled by the judges. "Your art does not speak to me." That should be the title of our newsletter.
ReplyDeleteOkay, of the pieces that were selected, which would you select to go into a museum?
ReplyDeleteI only saw episode 5. Both winning pieces could have shown anywhere.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many things wrong with the show that it would be difficult to know where to begin. The very small fraction of artists that were chosen were most likely not chosen for their ability as much as they were chosen for their personalities and incompatibility with each other. It's exploitative fodder for the masses playing on artistic stereotypes. Is Miles a talented artist? Is he intelligent? Probably. What does the viewer see? They see a depressed neurotic mess that wins all the time. Where is the show that reveals the artist as articulate, intelligent, and well-read? The challenges are great exercises for generating ideas. However, if an artist were to gather all of his work into two different piles, one of failures and one of successes, the failure pile would be much larger. Not every work of art is a masterpiece, nor should it be. I get it. It's a show. It's entertainment. I just don't have to like it, and I don't.
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