"Visionary insight"

Response to Tf00t's video.

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[skinnyjohnsen]

Having an artistic nerve does not become destroyed by learning a craft or a technique. Education gives freedom to create because you have the tools. Knowledge gives freedom. The more the better!

[artemisfair]

No, I didn't mean that it does. I just think that oftentimes art programs in colleges teach art as a formula when art by definition should not be bogged down by such rules. Self-educated artists often produce their work organically which is imho usually purer.

I agree, education is good if you can afford it, but it's not necessary to be a good artist.

[jedimasterbooboo]

I LOVE YOUR HAIR omg.

[artemisfair]

aww, thanks so much. :)

[LiberateEXinfernus]

Good video!

[artemisfair]

thanks. :)

[Haitahx]

Are those eye really than blue O_O wow superb..

[73elephants]

Dada (including Duchamp) should be forgotten. It was a protest appropriate to its time, but it is meaningless now, and the theory that grew up around it is completely wrong.

[73elephants]

...he had been an artist, but became cynical about it and stopped making art some years *before* the famous urinal thing. The urinal was a protest and a satire. It was not art. People who exhibit crap and say "I can call this art because Duchamp did similar" are misunderstanding Duchamp (and Dada generally), but are reinforcing his point that the art world is collectively rather stupid.

[73elephants]

That's wrong. It was already common to say that a work of art is whatever an artist so proclaims to be art. Duchamp thought this was nonsense, and he called the art world on it by demonstrating its absurd implications (urinals, etc., declared as art). He was not promoting this idea, but mocking and attacking it, expressign his contempt for the woolly thinking that prevailed (and still does) in the art world. He didn't want people to make similar stuff, but to stop making "art" altogether...

[johncrwarner]

@73elephants - I make no comment about the value of their statements what I said is that since Duchamp an artist can declare art anywhere and that genie seems to have got out of the bottle and into the world and if not a ban on their works how do you ignore that idea? I might dislike various directions in art but I cannot espace that ideas power. I suspect that Duchamp has fallen out of favour and back in several times since his death in the mid sixties.