Art that is happy to be Art
Should art students abandon the life room entirely? Artworks should have legs to run away the material world and a magical spirit that dared to pursue the improbable.
To measure a thing is to tame it, to make it susceptible to your rules. Striving for excellence motivates you.
Tania Kovats, Singular art
From an evolutionary standpoint it would not be a good design principle to have an Achilles' heel. Raw emotion from our reptilian brain is the magic of art.
You do better by finding by yourself what looks right or not. Art makers are looking back to look forward.
Life of a model.
Albin Crocotil’s tenacious attention to detail and abundance of patience invites the viewer in for closer inspection of its mastery of this technique. Albin Crocotil’s role is to examine and then speak about the confusing and beautiful world that fills me with awe. For the energy and optimism in his graffiti, we owe him gratitude.
It is precisely because art is meaningless that it is so hard to talk about: if a dark form in the night is really a big cat, you could be in danger while if it's just the wind, no harm done.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
It's unfortunately too late to put the horse back in the barn, but useful art ducks the carefully aimed darts of "aboutness".
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