2/2/07 readings

The difficulties of being an artist: this essay is tiered and dreary, although within the scope of reality. It is a dreary drink of realism without hope. It equities illuminates the struggles of students without any hope for change. Is it artist vocation to struggle and then tot graduate school to teach? Boy, on the eve of my final semester with no desire to teach what does that mean for me? Shall, I just starve then… that must be my lot.
Art & Fear: “Artists, it turns out, area crafty lot and surprisingly adept at getting the system to foot the bill for letting them do exactly what they wanted to do anyways. This is a far cry from the difficulties of being an artist. To do what you want to do you must be able to convince the patron that you alone know the right way to make the piece.” Art is a self-imposed discipline. “The arts network is there to handle all those details not central to the art making process.” In the discussion of teaching…”one way or another you have to preserve time both for making art and for sharing that art making process with your students”… Go back to apprenticeship where one could learn all they needed by living it and seeing the artist in action. This is an ideal but not without it’s own problems, propaganda, dictation…”Art and Money are very much alike, in both embodiment and conception. To put it simply: Art and $ are cultural fictions with no intrinsic value.” Really this is funny it is so true. It’s a commodity autographed by an individual that has indefinable value.