From: shannon stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 10/17/01-02:46:52 PM Z
Carl wrote:
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>Academic art has always indulged in fads. Irony seems to be the fad-de-jour,
>and college graduate art programs are the Academy of today. A couple
>centuries ago only large paintings of heavily populated historical scenes
>were acceptable to the Academy, while landscapes were not. Later, landscapes
>became acceptable and history painting became old-fashioned and silly.
>
>Saying a video is insufficiently ironic doesn't make much more sense than
>saying a sculpture is insufficiently yellow, or that a painting lacks the
>proper number of toga-clad ancient Romans. However, as Chris has pointed
>out, the fad _will_ be taken seriously within the academy. Until it's
>replaced by the next fad.
I would like to nominate for the next fad: overblown, operatic,
Romantic pictures with lots of glorious clouds and maybe some angels,
done in alt process techniques, on little bitty pieces of paper.
Only sort of kidding.
--shannon
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