In a message dated 3/11/10 11:35:39 PM, [email protected] writes:
> No one can paint > > without being aware that the use of a brush to apply paint is > > deskilled. In fact, today, all art processes and skills, and > > practices are deskilled (having been rejected without ending art) > > and thus one can question whether or not they can embody any > > meaning except through irony. > At the risk of asking too many questions without enough thought,Do you mean that using skill or craft in art is necessarily ironic? If irony is a statement whose meaning is conveyed by stating its opposite (skipping out on hy[pocrisy and neglecting deception because you couldn't possibly have meant anything so simplistically literal) how is this done with a brush? And what happens if the brush user's skill is not so good? Kate Sullivan
