tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932104.post9111877974146544158..comments2013-10-28T12:35:43.399-06:00Comments on A New Art Movement: Workmanshipdanielnorth.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115356477035369540noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932104.post-17433206841970577072007-07-11T23:35:00.000-06:002007-07-11T23:35:00.000-06:00If the vision is there from the beginning, techniq...If the vision is there from the beginning, technique will inevitably develop. It is the presence of vision which spurs it!<BR/>Whenever the vision goes spent or thwarted and the technique remains alone, all ends-up in the oeuvre's fossilization, in a perpetual, uninspired, repetition of some stylistic formula and some limited collection of themes. Our artscape in Greece presents several such a case.<BR/>The parallelism with conceptualism is rather unfortunate, as this last appears not to be even concerned with technique, since it effectually cancels the entire creative process. The mere assemblage of ready-made objects hardly requires the development of any skill worth talking about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18932104.post-22218970903778288742007-01-18T18:14:00.000-07:002007-01-18T18:14:00.000-07:00Technique is there to communicate vision. It is no...Technique is there to communicate vision. It is not an end in itself, and when it is made to be so, the result is deadly dull. That is by no means a denial of technique - quite the opposite - but it does determine exactly what technique is required, which is not necessarily "traditional skill", a term which is usually applied in a knee-jerk way to mean the methods of the High Renaissance. Those methods were developed to portray a particular vision of reality which we no longer inhabit. The Stuckist artists I exhibit work to achieve the right technique for what they want to say. There is certainly skill, but it may in some cases not be apparent to all, just as many people think that Picasso's work could be done by a 6 year old, which is nonsense to anyone with more than a superficial appraisal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com