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August 17, 2005
This Art thang
Anything can be art, but everything isn’t art. If everything was art, then, in a puff of semantics, art would cease to exist. It’s a matter of choice, you choose to call what you do art. There are no guidelines anymore. Art has become existential: if it’s in an Art Gallery then it must be Art.
After the choice it’s all down to commitment, conviction and confidence. Oh, sure, there can be skill involved. But ever since Art left Artisan skill has been downsizing. Skill can be worked at. Skill can be practised and learnt and improved. You can’t create passion if there isn’t any there in the first place.
If you have a passion that’s the beginning. If you have an obsession that helps too, particularly these days. Strong emotions are a focus and will spur you on to acquiring the skills necessary to produce work that will exorcise or communicate your passion.
Posted by john at August 17, 2005 09:14 AM