Cindy Sherman filmed in 1986 from State of the Art

This is from an episode of State of the Art, a series of documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. To buy the DVD, please go to www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

Filmed in Europe, the United States and Australia in 1985-6, the six programmes feature many key artists including -- in addition to Cindy Sherman -- Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, Eric Fischl and Joseph Beuys. The films also explore the intellectual context of the time and the ideas of post-modernism.

The series was originally seen on Channel 4 in Britain, and then shown in more than 20 countries.

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[6tryphon6]

Cindy

You are a genius. I love your work. There are only one of your kind!

[KEPHALLE]

@blueingreentrain i got your point, and to some extent you're right. by experience anyway, as i work in an art gallery, due to the intellectual lazyness of many, craft often is chosen as an "easy" backdoor to cover-up the lack of self expression abilities. the point is what makes craft a "good" craft and what makes it the opposite? many good crafted arworks feel shallow (example: photorealist painting). your statement appeared as an absolute truth, so i reacted too strongly; my apologizes

[blueingreentrain]

@KEPHALLE all I said is that her work is well crafted and that good art (involves) craft (which it does) usually. Of course, there's more to it than that, but I think she is a good example of this. I fully appreciate the legality and importance of the expression of opinion and this is why I did not appreciate the whole "WRONG" thing in your earlier comment. You may be underestimating craft and I'd like to remind you that this high vs. low art debate has been going on for the last 2 millennia

[KEPHALLE]

@blueingreentrain probably the one with some relax to take here is yourself. expressing opinions is legal, eccept it.

[blueingreentrain]

@KEPHALLE do me a favor, mate; calm down, swallow the ego and have a nice read, maybe even a cup of tea.

Google the word 'techne' and read the wikipedia definition etc. x

[KEPHALLE]

@blueingreentrain "good art involves craft" = WRONG! good art is balanced on many more elements such as creativity, originality, historical attinence, emotional force, experimentation ecc. craftmanship is only a tool, and not the most relevant among others

[juXlopes]

for who doesnt see art here. art is in THE CHOICE of the artist of creating an aesthetic operation. Is not just strike a pose but also finding visual elements to create an idea, an image. She is pós-conceptual, even if is conceptual, but different from the "pure conceptualists", she is worried about the beauty, the quality of the image.

[blueingreentrain]

good art involves craft. her work is very well crafted. it is very good

[monaco193]

@JuliendAnce posing? before you were even born? so what are you up to these days?

[JuliendAnce]

But your few true artists are more artist than american, that is to say european : Poe, Faulkner, Hopper.... the other are just boring rednecks.