David Woof on sun 6 nov 11
Hi Marcie=3D2C Carol=3D2C=3D20
Dangerous ground=3D3B this attempting to assume that you/I/we have a handle=
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n what real art is as opposed to those other folk's "kitchy crap".
Sorrrry but there are a lot of schmaltzy sentimentalists drooling over and =
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spending money on the
drivel (my opinion) of kitchy pincushion kitties.
Even these could be elevated to a fine art status if someone cared enough t=
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o express
Kitchie Kitties as a timeless and universally acknowledged metaphor for a f=
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acet
of the human condition.
Actually this (crap=3D3B in some folks opinion) does speak volumes of truth=
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s to our
historical and present human condition.=3DA0 How thin our veneer that separ=
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es "us"
Art itself has defied a comprehensive and universal agreement as to what ar=
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t is and isn't so what is one doing in a show like that anyway if your bent=
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is elsewhere.=3D20
Let them have their juror. Let them have their fun. Usually the juror is a =
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local Sunday Painter of "picture in the local paper" notoriety who's bias a=
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nd decisions won't shake the art world beyond the doors of the show. These =
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folks are just as convinced as to the rightness of what they are doing beca=
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use it feels good=3D2C the colors are nice and the work represents affordab=
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acquisition of stuff to fill empty spaces on walls and unconscious holes i=
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n self=3D2C as is any juried show by art literate artists and jurors who wo=
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d believe that their same human needs are more sophisticated.
One has only to see the truth that there are pigs wallowing about in palace=
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s and princes toiling in fields.=3D20
All humans share the same physiology as to pleasure receptors in the brain =
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and being=3D3B one is not a higher or more refined physical response than a=
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ther.
One must simply research the show and juror(s) so as not to wind up in the =
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"wrong Show" and then
bet the fee on your work as to whether it will hold its own.
David Woof
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> 9a. Re: I'm sorry and hey=3D2C there's foam in that cone box!
> Posted by: "marci Boskie's Mama =3D3D^..^=3D3D" marci@PPIO.COM
> Date: Fri Nov 4=3D2C 2011 11:28 am ((PDT))
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> At 11:00 PM 11/3/2011=3D2C you wrote:
> >From: Carole Fox
> >Subject: I'm sorry and hey=3D2C there's foam in that cone box!
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> > I guess what I wanted to say was I don't think kitchy=3D2C crudely
> >made holiday art should be in juried art shows.
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> isnt that why art shows ARE juried?
> Marci the chinapainter
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