Critic Anne Midgette is the daughter of a first rate American painter, Willard Midgette, whose career was tragically cut short by his early death. I well remember seeing is work at the Frumkin Gallery in the late 1960s. He was at the lead in the new figurative-narrative painting at that time. His work has influenced many artists. Although I'm not a figurative realist painter, I am a keen admirer of his contribution to American art.
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, January 7, 2012 2:45:14 AM Subject: Re: "...[He} lamented at how art schools exclusively btry to teach the poetry and not the craft.'" 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... (Please forward this to critic Ms. Anne Midgette. Thank you.)<http://us.mc462.mail.yahoo.com/mc/showMessage?sMid=0&fid=%2540S%2540Sea rch&filterBy=&squery=gissing&vp=1&.rand=559198578&midIndex=0&mid=1_22_2_28711 0_0_AMUmvs4AAVBPSF%2BIIgDOEncCGdI&[email protected]> Mon, 6/23/08 Sent ... the following came to mind: - Principles always become a matter of vehement discussion when practice is at an ebb. (George *Gissing*) (Please forward this to critic Ms. Anne Midgette. Thank you.)<http://us.mc462.mail.yahoo.com/mc/showMessage?sMid=0&fid=%2540S%2540Sea rch&filterBy=&squery=gissing&vp=1&.rand=559198578&midIndex=0&mid=1_22_2_28711 0_0_AMUmvs4AAVBPSF%2BIIgDOEncCGdI&[email protected]> Mon, 6/23/08 Sent ... 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*
