Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Manifesto: Freedom of Joy

  • There is an old and a new consciousness of art
  • The new art states that everything non-contemporary is taboo, b/c it is Bourgeois.
  • Where is the Bourgeoisie today?
  • A large portion of the Bourgeoisie are art-students at Columbia University's Art School. 
  • Ironically, they want to shock the Bourgeoisie, please the art critics, and keep the image of being the most daring
  • To keep the prices of the art market up --which only the Bourgeoisie can afford.
  • Modern art has done away with the hand of the artist, virtuosity, illusion of figure ground, brushes, oil paint, etc., to send a message under the pretence to please the blue-collar workers and the uneducated.
  • Art as we knew it is finally dead!!!
  • Good, it served its time, but did the avant-guard have the right to determine for all future generations?
  • The child who knows how to draw will draw; because it is a JOY to do what the brains know how to master.
  • Virtuosity is called for in all disciplines, except for in art.
  • Why? Because everybody should have the right to become an artist, except for those who can draw.
  • I do not call for an end of the contemporary, critical and inventive art, but for freedom to be allowed to experiment with everything in art, both past and new.
  • To widen the concept and audience of art.
  • To include "Joy of Freedom" as a manifesto in the process of art.
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