Okay, I confess, I went to business school before I went to art school.
However, there are ways, to go to "art school" and there are ways.
Going to a.s. bought me 8 years of time to use the facilities; the
kilns, the huge printing presses, the acid baths, the darkrooms, the
computers, the materials at cost, etc. and some great workshops with
people I have grown to love. Photography under one of Ansel Adams'
assistants - Henry Gilpin, a dear friend. Not my type of work, and he
thought what I did insane, but I would never trade his friendship and
his knowledge and his shared experiences and superb teaching ability. I
worked as a technician twice which gave me the use of the best of
facilities, oh, and I could sleep over and work all night. All of this
was an invaluable experience - beat business school for sure. Painters,
per Eryk? With all due respect paintings have been a part of Russian
Constructivism, Russian and Italian Futurism, Cubism, and the Armory
Show, if I recall correctly was just that - painting. Is Picasso's
"Guernica" fucked? I think not. I'm not a painter, but I have a
rapport with painting (although most of it is in that genre) ; as well
as sculpture, assemblage (especially), performance - it all coalesces,
in my mind.
I'm not a "professional" artist. I will always be a student - that's
part of Fluxlist for me, it's not the content of the list, it's the
outside/inside experience of the contributors - the friendship and the
sharing - especially the humor and participating. It's the "art &
exchange" to quote Reed, it's an international network.
"Art School." You get what you want out of it, or you leave it, or you
don't participate. We are all individuals, and we choose.
Best,
PK
David Baptiste Chirot wrote:
> The great Jazz musician Ornette Coleman said: artists don't
> need to go to art school, they need to go to business school
>
> dbc
>
> (sadly, i did not follow his advice)
