--- Sol Nte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Don, the majority of art teachers that I have met are fairly poorly
> educated
> in the arts (or at least anything beyond the mainstream). It's very
> disappointing...
It seems that's the case for the educational system in general...
Certainly there have been occasions when I have been
> pleased
> to talk to an art lecturer to ask them how they present certain
> material to
> students only to find they've never heard of it and start asking me
> questions. I'm just a computer programmer without 1 art qualification
> to my
> name and they're asking me about things...it's plain daft!
Yes, I can relate to this on many levels. I recently mentioned a couple
of times to the head of the Dallas Video Festival (features many "art"
videos) that if he needed any videos relating to the Situationist Int'l
that I could provide them for viewing as long as viewers weren't charged
an admission price. He then said, "Situation what?" hmmmm...
A threatened friendship over Fluxus seems to be no friendship at all.
Also, there's a "personal" nature concerning many artists work that I
just don't understand - hit my art>>>>you hit ME - as if there's a
neuron jump.
Rod
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http://rostasi.8m.com
http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/hunt.jerry.html
Left to itself, art would have to be something very simple - it would be sufficient
for it to be beautiful. But when it's useful it should spill out of just being
beautiful and move over to other aspects of life so that when we're not with the art
it has nevertheless influenced our actions or our responses. -John Cage
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