On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:48 AM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:00 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 24, 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. All other arts still rely on rigorous >>> skills, >>> historical forms, consensual interpretation, and audience appeal. >>> >>> No one knows why visual art has abandoned its standards but anyone >>> looking at >>> today's visual art knows that no standards is the name of the game. it >>> has a >>> huge number of advocates. Skills are out. Some art schools say they >>> teach only >>> to "to the wrist" and focus instead on ideas and theory... >> >> >> >> - The mind resorts to reason for want of training. >> >> Henry Adams >> > > To paraphrase Whitehead: > > - An artform** is in its finest flower* before it begins to analyze > itself. > > --------------------------------------- > > *A *culture is in its finest flower* before it begins to analyze itself. > - *Analysis kills spontaneity*. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. Henri Frederic Amiel
