Re: "...[He} lamented at how art schools exclusively ‘try to teach the poetry and not the craft.'"

[joseph berg]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:36 AM, William Conger <w-con...@sbcglobal.net>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...


- It's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the
root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Norman Mailer