Back in ’94 I won an electronic arts prize, and spent a weekend in Austria with artists. They had declared me a “concept artist” and we discussed what that meant. I felt deja vu Thursday when I presented at the
For one thing, he took up too much time. He kept repeating that that it's an illusion (an idea I've heard serious defenses of but not from him) and that it causes a great amount of harm, which in most contexts would be considered controversial but he didn't support. Some natural alternatives to consider would be unity of cells in a multicellular organism or a colony of eusocial insects, but there wasn't any discussion of them or the sociobiological reasons why we do not resemble them. He also said that we don't perceive our own elderly parents in retirement homes to be separate from us, which is simply laughable. Children often disagree with such relatives over questions of whether they should be placed there in the first place, how often visits should be and so on. It's not unheard of for there to be serious intergenerational enmity, and even the occasional child who seeks to off their parent for the inheritance. He could have simply stated that we have a greater amount of empathy for our own parents, but he ridiculously crammed it into his non-perception-of-self schtick.
While they [artists] have no explicit standards, they can roughly articulate many features that all-else-equal make paintings better, and communities of artists usually have enough consensus on what they like to together rate paintings as good or bad.
The cases of critically acclaimed painters Pavel Jerdanowitch and Pierre Brassau throw some doubt on this. (If you haven't heard of them, google the names for some hilarious stories.)
Concept art is like anything else, there can be exceptional examples and there can be examples which are bull.
All art doesn't HAVE to be challenging and surely there is a place for challenging conceptual work as much as there is a need for a print of "Water Lillies" in a dentist's waiting room?
For one thing, he took up too much time. He kept repeating that that it's an illusion (an idea I've heard serious defenses of but not from him) and that it causes a great amount of harm, which in most contexts would be considered controversial but he didn't support. Some natural alternatives to consider would be unity of cells in a multicellular organism or a colony of eusocial insects, but there wasn't any discussion of them or the sociobiological reasons why we do not resemble them. He also said that we don't perceive our own elderly parents in retirement homes to be separate from us, which is simply laughable. Children often disagree with such relatives over questions of whether they should be placed there in the first place, how often visits should be and so on. It's not unheard of for there to be serious intergenerational enmity, and even the occasional child who seeks to off their parent for the inheritance. He could have simply stated that we have a greater amount of empathy for our own parents, but he ridiculously crammed it into his non-perception-of-self schtick.
I agree with TGGP. Perhaps it's my background as a scientist but I find the conceptions of the conceptiual artist/design people to be fairly messy.
That far-mode illusion-of-the-self guy was really annoying.
Why?
That far-mode illusion-of-the-self guy was really annoying.
While they [artists] have no explicit standards, they can roughly articulate many features that all-else-equal make paintings better, and communities of artists usually have enough consensus on what they like to together rate paintings as good or bad.
The cases of critically acclaimed painters Pavel Jerdanowitch and Pierre Brassau throw some doubt on this. (If you haven't heard of them, google the names for some hilarious stories.)
Concept art is like anything else, there can be exceptional examples and there can be examples which are bull.
All art doesn't HAVE to be challenging and surely there is a place for challenging conceptual work as much as there is a need for a print of "Water Lillies" in a dentist's waiting room?
All mathematicians seem to be concept artists.
beauty, elegance, provocation, intrigueCan provocation include the number of thoughts provoked?It sounds like mathematical elegance.