[Jewelry making - Article 00188] - Re: [Orchid] Smithsonian jury results

[John Donivan]

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>     Sounds to me like - If it's easy and takes "no" skill - like moving
>     a rock from one place to another... and it's cheap, 'cause the
>     rocks are free... it ain't art? 

    Brian has some good points, mostly that the debate of how many angels
    can dance on a pin is no more useful than it ever was. What I'm
    trying to get at - some would probably say "Pound away at", is
    standards. It's just also not useful to say "Everything is art.", 
even
    though on some level it's completely true. When your child comes to
    you and says, "Look at the pretty rock I found", do we need to put
    that in the Smithsonian? Do we gather every scrawl that everybody 
ever
    did and put them in museums? Art school idealism sounds good in the
    classroom, but like all idealism, it doesn't hold up to examination.
    Imagine if you paid $50 for a concert and when you got there there 
was
    some kid with an out-of tune guitar struggling with Stairway to
    Heaven. Everything is Art!! Of course everything is art. And of
    course NOT everything is art, really. There is a thing that's called
    "An Artist", just as there are bankers and shopkeepers. I'm not
    afraid to stand up and have people take potshots at me (The Devil's
    Advocate), but I'm also not presuming to say, "That is good, that's
    not". I'm just talking about standards, and I'll say it again - a
    rock is just a rock. A sculpture of a rock is the artist's VISION of
    what a rock is about. THAT is the difference. 

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