[Jewelry making - Article 01215] - Re: [Orchid] Art & Jewelry

[stevens]

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>         I have seen so much beautiful work in the recent galleries at
>     orchid. I have a question to those of you out there who consider
>     yourselves artists. I have found it extremely difficult to get
>     recognition as an artist. many galleries don't show or will not
>     take jewelry.  Many consider it simply "jewelry" rather that
>     wearable art or so not have the display capacity for such work.  

    The distinction between art and non-art started eroding quickly
    after Duchamp displayed an urinal and other "ready mades" in art
    shows around 1917. 

    Nelson Goodman suggests '...we may need to turn our attention from
    the question "What is art?" to the question "When is art?" ', and
    that we also have to make a careful distinction between whether a
    thing is good art and whether it is art.  (Ways of Worldmaking,
    1978, ch. IV) 

    And here's David Hume, way back in the 18th century: "Beauty is no
    quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which
    contimplates them; and each mind percieves a different beauty. One
    person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of
    beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own
    sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others. To seek
    the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an enquiry, as
    to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or real bitter... But though
    there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between
    one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and
    improve this talent, than practice in a particular art, and the
    frequent survey or contemplation of a particular species of beauty."
     (from "Of the Standard of Taste") 

>     .............  opinions anyone? 

    Go back to that last sentence in the above Hume quote, and keep on
    hammering that metal. 

mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com/

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