Berry Silverman on fri 12 jun 98
You say you're an artist? Fine. Just fill that in on the tax form, if
you've been lucky enough to earn a dollar doing that. Is what you make
Art? If you say so, fine. Is it good art? Well, that's where I have a
problem, because I don't think that's the artist's call to make.
Unfortunately for the impatient, the judgment gets left to history to
decide. And 12-paragraph statements tacked on the wall next to a
piece (be it painting or pot) telling you it's art don't make it so.
We may think it's fabulous, but there again, every ugly baby has a
mother who thinks he's beautiful. So in the meantime, while we wait
for those sitting in judgment to judge, we should be so lucky to be
called an excellent craftsman in our chosen field. If you want more
than that, well, talk to your husband, your mother, your best friend
-- they think your stuff is wonderful.
Berry in Tucson, just a little worn out with all the discourse. If a
picture is worth a thousand words, why can't we just paint the picture
(or pot) and leave all those words to the poets?
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Lorca Beebe on sun 14 jun 98
Berry et al.
Depends whos writting the history, since your living on conquered territory
maybe your used to half-truths, and stories beffiting the conqueror...there
were many great artist excluded from history, oh like WOMEN!
Lorca
William Moody on tue 16 jun 98
Lorca Beebe wrote:
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> Berry et al.
>
> Depends whos writting the history, since your living on conquered territory
> maybe your used to half-truths, and stories beffiting the conqueror...there
> were many great artist excluded from history, oh like WOMEN!
>
> Lorca
> We here at Southern Illinois University experienced a lecture by an art
> critic of some fame, whose name escapes me now, who said that just because an
> "artist" made it doesn't mean it is art. Although he did put a great store in
> the fact that he could influence the price and demand for an artist by
> endorsing him/her. I believe that we as artist who work in clay as our medium
> actually harm ourselves when we let others define our art, and also harm is
> caused by the endless in-fighting given over to the whole art vs. craft
> debate. In other words, art? craft? who cares get on with the making! If we
> as a community are divided over something as trivial as this then how can we
> ever hope to gain recognition from the all ready elitist "fine artist?"
An Aside to Beebe,
Everyone is/was living on conquered territory, and yes it is unfortunate that
history is written by the conqueror.
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