The aesthetic design's wrongness is where the individual's art can
excel.
Abstract,cartoon or academic,and never wrong or boring when it does.
mando
On Sep 21, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
"An abstract painting or cartoonish stick-figure may be boring --
but only an
academic figure drawing can be wrong."
By "academic", I'm not referring to a specific academy or canon,
but to any
discipline of life drawing. So a drawing is not "wrong" because
it violates
any specific academic criteria, and I wasn't limiting such judgment
to those
who are even familiar with much artwork or the concept of "art" at
all.
"There's something wrong about the nose" is a comment that might
come from
anybody able to see and speak.
While "something right" might be found in the wide variety of
representational
styles spanning four thousand years.
So Saul's comments about the degree of canonization or
standardization would
not apply.
Over the first decade of this listserv, I can't recall that right/
wrong has
ever been an issue regarding specific visual art unless some
discipline of
representation has evidently been applied.
So, my assertion is resting upon very little evidence.
But it could be tested, couldn't it? By presenting a variety of
images to a
variety of viewers and asking those viewers to rate the images as
interesting/boring, funny/not funny, right/wrong etc.
Actually - the reason they can speak of right and wrong is because
this form
of figuration is so cannonized is that it can only be judged in
terms of its
academic criteria - in other word the degree of right and wrongness
increases
with a thing's standardization - there is nothing to like - in
that one
either likes this type of drawing or not
As for this statement - lot's of things whose criteria are
standardized -
rather than creative can be wrong - look at how much you get wrong,
on a
regular basis because you can neither grasp abstract thought or the
propositional nature of art
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