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February 09, 2005
Painters who can’t paint.
What does an artist do? Today it’s hard to define. Time was he was [for in the past he was mostly a he was] he was a craftsman with a set of tools and skills who could capture a likeness of something in paint.
Today, as we are constantly reminded, an artist can do anything from exhibiting no paintings in a gallery just painted white, to exhibiting their bed. Today the set of tools and skills have been replaced by THE IDEA.
Call it conceptualism, call it post-modern, call it Brenda, it is now not about the basic task of capturing a likeness but about the more complex task of commenting on our condition.
It is no longer necessary to be able to paint to be a painter.
Posted by john at February 9, 2005 09:19 AM
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