Jostein Øksne wrote: >From: <[email protected]> > >>A lot has to do with the photographer having a 'known' name. > >I've seen that one-liner so many times I've stopped believing in it. >If it was true, new artists would not emerge at the rate it actually does.
I think Ken's right. The new artists get their reputations and make their names by breaking the conventions and defying the definitions of the "known" artists. Then the "new" artists become "known" artists and the next generation comes along and starts the cycle again. Whenever I read these definitions of "fine art" or just "art" I think of Susan B. Anthony's comment on religion: "I distrust those people who know so well what god wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires". The definition always coincides with the definer's work and I don't believe for a moment that the artist decided on the definition first and then created art that met its criteria; the art comes first and the definition is added post hoc. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
