"...and this is true of art as well: the grand utopia of art, the great illusion, the great transcendence of art materialized everywhere. Art has thoroughly entered reality.Some say that art is dematerialized. The exact opposite is true: art today has thoroughly entered reality. It is in museums and galleries, but also in trash, on walls,in the street, in the banality of everything that has been made sacred today without any further debate. The aesthetization of the world is complete. Just as we now have a bureaucratic materialization of the social,a technological materialization of sexuality, a media and advertizing materialization of politics, we have semiotic materialization of art. " Jean Baudrillard - The Conspiracy of Art
Some people are touting the death of the artist. This is where everyone is creative. No more need for exceptional individuals. Only organizers, only curators. We can all work together. No one is special. That’s because we’re all special because we're all the same.
Yeah right.
I bumped into a friend of mine, he's a painter but he does high end cabinets to make a living. He lives in a tiny apartment in the Lower East Side. He gave up painting because he couldn't afford the rent on a studio. Now he makes his images on computer. They’re the same but not in paint. I guess he didn't hear about the death of the artist yet.
Some people are touting the death of the artist. This is where everyone is creative. No more need for exceptional individuals. Only organizers, only curators. We can all work together. No one is special. That’s because we’re all special because we're all the same.
Yeah right.
I bumped into a friend of mine, he's a painter but he does high end cabinets to make a living. He lives in a tiny apartment in the Lower East Side. He gave up painting because he couldn't afford the rent on a studio. Now he makes his images on computer. They’re the same but not in paint. I guess he didn't hear about the death of the artist yet.