Chris is also suffering a start-up glitch on our new forum. At Chris's
request, I relay to the forum a posting that Databack rejected. And, like
Mando,
Chris has difficulty getting all his posts into the archive. Databack will
chase
all this down.
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It's too bad about the Prix de Rome --- it actually continued into the 1950's
-- but then got abandoned -- just like the national juried shows that big art
museums like the Art Institute and Met used to have. (and even the Olympics
used to have medals for sculpture, painting etc)
I suppose it just got too hard to keep up with trends -- while still having
any kind of criteria for judgment -- so at the end , for example, the curators
of the A.I.C. just went to NYC and pulled in whatever was setting trends in
the top galleries to put into their National Show. And if they're going to do
that -- why not just go to those galleries yourself?
I think there's still a need for such activity -- like music contests for
performers of piano, guitar etc -- as a way to jump-start the careers of those
with phenomenal talent.
That's how the last great/famous American sculptor (IMHO), Paul Manship, got
started so fast.
But as we now know -- excellence in any specific art is irrelevant to what's
recognized as achievement in "Art"
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