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Re: ART vs. DRAMA
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
Thom Kevin Gillespie wrote:
I have no problem with randomness in art but bottom line is the artist
accepts of rejects the random event.
If you accept this, then it is not difficult for you to understand how
frottage, Standard Stoppages, Jackson Pollack flinging paint (not randomly
done, but harnessing somewhat randomized paint splatters), and a happy
accident in a watercolor are all 'real ART'.
If the artist is there it is ART
So it shouldn't be difficult
for you to understand how http://www.random-art.org/ is also 'real ART'. The
artists, in this case, are those who vote on the works and thereby advance or
diminish their merit. The randomness is most explictly being accepted or
rejected, that's half the point of the site. A site that presented only
random images with no selection would probably bore us.
This doesn't sound random. Sounds like lots of picking and rejecting is
going on.
Brandon ART or art, DRAMA or drama?
--Thom