Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Seven Days in the Art World - Ch2: The Crit

•"MFA stands for yet another Mother-Fucking Artist" [I just had to use it, so rare this kind of phrase is found in my assigned readings for school haha]

•"It is no halfhearted thing. You are materializing- taking something from the inside and putting it out into the world so you can be relieved of it." [in reference to what an artist is]

•“art comes out of failure”

•"I don't care about the artists intentions. I care if the work looks like it might have some consequences."

•“Artists don’t fully understand what they’ve made, so other people’s readings can help them ‘see at the conscious level’ what they’ve done”..“it’s about being open to the possibility of what you could know”

•"Never go to the wall text. Never ask the artist. Learn to read the work."

•“Criticality is a strategy for the production of knowledge. Our view is that art should interrogate the social and cultural ideas of its time. Other places might want a work to produce pleasure or feelings.”

•“Even if crits are performances, the students seem not to be acting but searching for authentic self expression.”

•“Often the people who are making sense are the ones for whom it hasn’t started working yet.”


•"I believe in education for its own sake, because it is deeply humanizing. It is being a fulfilled human being"

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