Monday, September 23, 2019

Being an Artist: Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse

https://art21.org/read/katharina-grosse-contending-with-the-history-of-painting/


I don’t know anything about art but I know what I like.

From Barrett: When people talk about art, they tend, unthinkingly, that everyone’s opinion is as good as everyone else’s.  To dismiss a carefully thought out, backed by evidence statement with “That’s just your opinion” is intellectually irresponsible. (not that it should be accepted, but that it deserves a reasoned response.)

It doesn’t matter what you say because it is all subjective anyway. When discussing art. An extreme relativism that does not allow for truth or falsity, or plausibility and reasonability, or for knowledge and experience either

Critics are knowledgeable, passionate, political, opinionated, enlightened, connoisseurs, art does not speak for itself. A good critic makes arguments, not pronouncements. Critics can also be about resistance, freedom, social justice, rebellion, interpretation and promotion.

There are many models of art criticism.  Every time we, as critics (connoisseurs, lovers of art), confront a work of art, I am looking for something way beyond a simple pronouncement “I like it”, I am looking for a vivid description, merging into an interpretation (including how it moved you), an informed judgment, and some theory….how is it art? This means you are going to be building a chair of your theory of art.


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