Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This quote or this part of this quote: "But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. " Is as offensive as anything I've seen on the subject. Probably more so. It's nothing new for photo enthusiasts to be more into f stops and gadgets then feeling comfortable with the artistic nature of their work of anyone else's . So they sell their prints for a few bucks done by somebody else on the internet and get a check at the end of the month. Everyone is happy and no one has to call themselves or anyone else an artist. On ones going to be accused of being pretentious. The fact is that art sold in the context of brick and mortar art galleries headed by art gallery owners who are much better at art, business and the business of art than this. And they may have during the way or have gone to school to learn something about the subject and then put it into practice. The art world is constantly under attack by people who have made no effect to understand it. But who just feel more comfortable feeling threatened by it. Its often the same people who feel under the gun by poets and literary types and the serious theater. Its really just one of the main forms of anti intellectualism which runs rampant in this country and may also have something to do with ideas of "class" a thing not supposed to be going on in at least this country but always is . Anyone with a favorite poet or an informed opinion not simply based on dumb bias or with an open admiration for intelligence is suspect. In Europe as I understand it you can read a book in a caf? an no one thinks you are trying to prove a point. On 11/5/15 8:27 AM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote: > My "Artist's Statement" is a statement against artists' > statements! http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/index#!/p/artists-statement M > y favorite quote about this is from Calvin and Hobbes: "People always make > the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private > language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to > the rest of the world. As my artist?s statement explains, my work is utterly > incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance." Tina -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/