Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]abridge@mac.com (Adam Bridge)11/12/013:45 PM > on 11/12/01 10:19 AM, John R. Fulton Jr. at JRFjr@compuserve.com > thoughtfully wrote: > > > Talking the talk and walking the walk is very important in the "art" > > world. This photographer talked about his work and even did a > > demonstration for you. You may not have been impressed but he > > probably impressed anybody else standing around. Speaking about your > > work is very important in the art world. I hate talking about my > > pictures. My wife, an artist (she has the Master of Fine Arts degree > > to prove it), says I MUST talk about my pictures. > > I just HATE this philosophy - although it's all over - painting, > sculpture, > writing, what-have-you. > > I've always believed, rather stupidly it turns out, that a work stands by > itself. There's the image: take what you wish from it. Now I'd be happy to It would help in this type of discussion to split the topic into the relevant parts. When discussing a work of art (any media) the art can and should stand on its own. We can discuss the aesthetics purely. When discussing the business of art (earning a living by selling the art or rights of reproduction), gallery exhibitions, et al, we need to add the marketing stuff which gets into the "buyer's" need to "know" more about what s/he's buying, who made it, how, when, why, etc. And in this area celebrity becomes as important an issue as the work itself. George - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html