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UncategorizedMay 23, 2019May 26, 2019

The Ugly Truth: It was Beauty all Along

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald [Here I present an argument that art must be beautiful. Note that beauty signifies being visually captivating, compelling, or interesting, and doesn’t mean it’s…

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art criticismJanuary 13, 2015November 14, 2017

The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art

[Why People Hate Conceptual Art, Part 2] Skill is generally a good word for visual art, and a bad word for conceptual art. For the conceptual artist, skill is largely irrelevant, or “busy work”, and would be dismissed as “unskilled labor” if that didn’t have the word “skill” tucked into it. Skill is seen as…

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