From: Bob Kiss (bobkiss@caribsurf.com)
Date: 10/17/01-02:51:56 PM Z
CHERUBS! AND SERAPHIM! Don't forget the Seraphim!
CHEERS!
BOB KISS
----- Original Message -----
From: shannon stoney <sstoney@pdq.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 5:46 PM
Subject: the next fad
>
> Carl wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >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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