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... > - Principles always become a matter of vehement discussion when practice is at an ebb. (George Gissing) [Sorry for the previous messed up email reply.]
