In a message dated 3/12/10 12:12:14 PM, [email protected] writes:
> By evoking painting practices that deskill my painting practice, I > symbolize the fragility of my imagery despite the assertiveness of my brush and > paint practice. I am saying that all artists, all art practice, is in the > same position today. No practice is free from a contradicting practice -- > from a deskilling alternative -- that has also been affirmed as art by the > same processes or institutions or authority that have always affirmed art. > > You are quite right in saying that marks made by non brushes are now acclaimed as art marks. You do seem to imply that it devalues brush marks, or skilled marks. Marks made by non brushes have always been present-Claude applied his paint with his hands.Chardin would not admit how he applied his paint,the other end of the brush has often been used. The contradicting painting practices of the present often evoke the more bravura effects of the past-the whir of the dry brush, the piles of paint dissolving into lace. They do it often enough so it seems deliberate. How do you explain this? KAte Sullivan
