We need something in drawing theory to believe in, because theory is used to conceal what should be seen.
A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier
In conceptual art you don't understand idiosyncratic things. You idiosyncratically get used to them. Not theory of composition by itself leads to the production of music, or of art.
Kitschy idiosyncratic art meeting conceptual theory
Contemporary interest in conceptual art does not require an understanding of form, which consequently is not taught.
Over large areas and over long periods of time, the birth and growth of pictures can be considered to balance their death and decay.
Can abstract art recover any of the utopian and spiritually trancendent ambitions it was associated with the early modernist era, the heroic age of Kandinsky, Malevich and the historical avant-garde ?
W.J.T. Mitchell
Conceptualism is not about everyday pictures but contemporary allegories painted over ancient moralizing allegories. Sure, a pure algorithm paper is nice from an aesthetics perspective.
Joseh Kosuth
What makes art memorable ? Eccentric drawings cool-eyed in their thinking are memorable. The parts of the composition seem to be fundamentally at odds with each other, here we give up and use the terms interchangeably.
Roman Opalka began with the numeral (one one one) in 1965. Roman Opalka methodically painted consecutive (two two two) numbers on a brobdingnagian amount of canvases in a march toward infinity. The numerically leading conceptual artist died August 7, 2011.
How can some whimsical artist solve my problem? a value system that measures everything according to principles of functional application.
Theorists on contemporary drawing need real paradigms, not pictures that represent old metaphors.
Bruce Nauman, This would be the case even if the pictures were perfect and free of noise.
Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art ?, unintentional artwork is non-art."
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