On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:36 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> Yeah, this is one of the ongoing debates re art schools and education for
> the
> artist. It's rather odd that Hockney is now complaining about schools'
> ignoring
> skills when he's the guy who made a big deal of the camera lucida
> and how it
> enables past artists to trace projected images instead of
> rendering by eyeball
> and hand. But it's true that art schools have pretty
> much abandoned
> skill-oriented teaching in favor of talking the students to
> death with theory...
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... the following came to mind: - Principles always become a matter of
vehement discussion when practice is at an ebb. (George *Gissing*)
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... the following came to mind: - Principles always become a matter of
vehement discussion when practice is at an ebb. (George *Gissing*)
- Principles always become a matter of vehement discussion when practice is
at an ebb.
George *Gissing*
