On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:04 AM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:59 AM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:06 AM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:55 AM, William Conger <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> On the other hand...(no pun intended).... >>>> >>>> The contemporary art now being shown at the big and glossy art fairs >>>> is, taken >>>> as a whole, is well crafted, sometimes exquisitely so. Such art often >>>> results >>>> from specialized assistants, machines, and engineering expertise and is >>>> most >>>> evident in conceptual sculpture and painting. In fact, the world of >>>> contemporary painting is now going through a phase of very tricky >>>> craftsmanship >>>> with almost magical technical results. There's a very high degree of >>>> theatricality and self-consciousness in this work. Paint splatters and >>>> drips, >>>> for instance, (now very popular in bright colors), seem to be >>>> pre-planned for >>>> best effect, probably practiced like a ballet step over and over before >>>> being >>>> 'performed' on the canvas. In the old days of abstract expressionism, >>>> splatters >>>> and drips were popular, of course, but then it was because they were >>>> the natural >>>> result of furious 'action ' painting, not pre-planned. It's hard to >>>> decide >>>> what's worse, the loss of basic skills in art-making or the exaggerated >>>> display >>>> of superhuman (read machined) polish and refinement. If we look to art >>>> history >>>> for help, it's plenty clear that the low points occurred when technical >>>> polish >>>> reached an acme whereas the times of low skill always signaled a >>>> forthcoming big >>>> change in worldview. >>>> >>>> As far as I am concerned, once the technical problems have been >>> "solved," then art becomes all about style over substance, i.e., the >>> gilding of inspiration. >>> >> >> According to the following: >> >> - Technical perfection isnt perfection per se, because that slight bit >> of imperfection humanizes an image and gives it personality. >> >> >> http://blog.mingthein.com/2012/05/15/balancing-content-and-technical-perfecti on/ >> > > > According to the following: > > - Chinese ceramic technology developed to a climactic level in the late > seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. New and more sophisticated > colours appeared, including pink... In general there was increasing > perfection and formality. These trends did not appeal to Japanese > taste...[which] was for more rustic and technically imperfect tea wares. > Traditionally the Japanese have shown very limited interest in Chinese > porcelain produced after 1644. > > > http://books.google.com/books?id=wc4gpvL6-wAC&pg=PA181&dq=perfection+chinese+ art&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zpnNUI73LOK6igKqz4GgCA&ved=0CDwQ6AEwATg8#v=onepage&q=perfec tion%20&f=false > According to the film director Jean Renoir: - In the early days, directors had to make their imagination work in order to balance what they were missing with inferior technique. Now that technique is perfect... https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22In+the+early+days%2C+directo rs+had+to+make+their+imagination+work+inorder+to+balance+what+they+were+missi ng+with+inferior+technique.++Now+that+technique+is+perfect%22&btnG =
