On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:30 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> ...The visual arts are alone among the arts in degrading skills and > history of the > field to the vanishing point... Whenever I read things like that, I simply feel like a character out of a Franz Kafka novel--I just DON'T KNOW what's hitting me. Learning and mastering skills are supposed to be part of the 'compliance' aspect of art which is supposed to take place at the very start of training. I feel that young people are told prematurely to focus on self-expression, i.e., the 'performance' aspect of art which, as far as I am concerned, should only be attempted after the 'compliance' phase to prevent self-expression from quickly morphing into self-indulgence.
