From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:56:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Sock puppets


I agree totally with Christopher Hudert about "communication" in art.

 If you have an audience of even ONE person who "gets" what you are trying to say, then the art communicated. If one "gets it", in the future others may also "get it"---which pretty much brings us back to Vincent van Gogh who sold one painting in his lifetime. 

It is not the starving that makes the artist. And the starving sure does not guarantee phyical survival of the artist.

Not all effort results in art or communication. That self-promoted "painter of light" who has retreaded French Impressionism endlessly, also had a subdivision of his houses which had to be filled with Kincaide paintings. Talk about overkill of bad art. Also, since the windows of his houses are all "full of light" they really should come with an electric bill. He has had franchised "art galleries" catering to ignorant buyers, with inflated prices. Even his gimmick of prints of his painting being priced higher if a few dabs of real paint are added to the paper---well, it smacks of exaggeration, exploitation, commercialism of the lowest order. 

Worst of all, a family member had one hanging on the wall. Ugh. Well, that can be outgrown with exposure to masterpieces or tasteful decorative pieces or just about anything including kitsch calendars. It is the ignorant who are vulnerable to art crap.

Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Hudert
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:00 AM
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Sock puppets


On Apr 27, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Alan Cook wrote:

> Once, when I was in Haines, Alaska in February, I did a few simple 
> puppet workshops at the elementary school. One kid in particular,  did 
> a great job, so I asked if he was going to show it the the people at 
> home? No, he said. Why not? Because I have to wear it home.
>
> Another example of the perils of insufficient supplies and financial 
> handicaps.
>
> Alan

Hmmm. I guess that's one way to look at it. But the way I see it, it is 
an example of knowing your boundaries and pushing them, using what you 
have at hand - or at foot as the case may be - with a measure of 
reality/practicality. To create much from little is an art in itself. 
After all, a paining is merely smears of pigment on some piece of 
cloth. Of course, these smears from the hand of a master become 
something, yet even that master began with smears that were more of the 
imagination of a reality, what the future master saw in it, rather than 
what others did. Communicating that vision in a way that others (not 
necessarily all) can understand and share in it is what art is about. 
As we grow as artists, that communication gets better.

Christopher

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