Comments on: Weekend Miscellany

By: Donald Frazell

Donald Frazell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:00:56 +0000

See, thats why i like your site, you can take a joke, a rare ability these days, gotta be intelligent to see humor in life. And admit mistakes. Thanks, i have made a few in my time too.

By: Art Fag City

Art Fag City — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:16:57 +0000

You’re right - I forgot about that blurb on why art can not be taught.

By: Donald Frazell

Donald Frazell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:01:48 +0000

Of course it does, the title of the book you site is Art cannot be taught. TEACHING, thats school. You brought it up, and the naive one did too. THATS on topic. Just not what some want to hear. Truth ahs that effect.

Art collegia delenda est

By: Art Fag City

Art Fag City — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:39:36 +0000

Donald the post has nothing to do with art schools. Your other comments have not been approved because they have nothing to do with the topic discussed. Stay focused if you want to participate.

By: Donald Frazell

Donald Frazell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:34:03 +0000

Damn, whats wrong with calling art schools clinical and protected, they are. There is no creativity in such places, sheltered from the real world, just the illusion of such, so they can take your money. Its a business first.

Art collegia delenda est

By: Jesse Patrick Martin

Jesse Patrick Martin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:05:10 +0000

I find that a lot of people’s lives are clinical and protected, and that school can be (potentially) a place to broaden, inform, and challenge students’ creativity. The alternative so often translates into a blase, arrogant, anti-intellectual attitude where so-called “life experience” is really just solipsism run amok.

By: L.M.

L.M. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:26:27 +0000

Creativity can’t be taught by rote, but it can be introduced, the results can be shown to people and underlying structures, critical bumph, & polite assumptions can be observed, then stripped away to show that something marvelous and mysterious is still left behind. (if not, the work bores me anyway)

By: Donald Frazell

Donald Frazell — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:52:51 +0000

It can be learned, just not in schools. Life is our teacher, gotta have one first. Academia is clinical, protected, and asks silly questions that have noting to do with life. And so we have Contemporary Art.

Art collegia delenda est