didn't you just post a thread recently bemoaning a lack of cultural literacy in the present age?In an age of greater visual literacy
Let me explain. There's visual literacy that corporate media uses to manipulate the masses and cultural literacy. Do you ever notice when young kids pose for photos, they have the same stilted poses? They know what looks "good" but have less knowledge of art, literature and music and performing arts. It's not their fault. Arts education has been cut back severely here in California. The only access to art is TV, movies and the internet. What do you think?didn't you just post a thread recently bemoaning a lack of cultural literacy in the present age?
which is it?
or is it something else again, presumably people moaning that today is different and therefore worse than yesterday?
In general, I guess, but not everywhere. On one particular forum for one particular geographic location I'm constantly having debates with too many people who have imagination and abstract thinking set to zero. All what they are able to see is visual effects.In an age of greater visual literacy...
In general, I guess, but not everywhere. On one particular forum for one particular geographic location I'm constantly having debates with too many people who have imagination and abstract thinking set to zero. All what they are able to see is visual effects.
I'm just a tech in a university art department. There are 2 disciplines taught here. The theoretical and the practice side. On the theoretical side, there's art history and the practice side is the studio art classes in painting, sculpture, print making, photography and the digital realm. The art studio professors are pretty tough in their critiques also called "crits". A good art department pushes art students and make an artist justify their art. Most that move on and spend a couple more years and tens of thousands of dollars to attain an MFA degree want to give their art "validity". Some do their art and teach to earn a living. There is an elitist side here of course, but overall, students leave as well trained artist.Normally if a work of art has something to say, it will "say" it itself.
If the work of art has nothing to say, than the "artist" will have to speak on its behalf, and the result will be a ridiculous attempt, by the listener/viewer, to retrace the concept in the work. How interesting!
We saw this already in music, sculpture, painting etc. After centuries of good, or less good, or awful music, but music that needed no elaborated explanation, we arrived at Cage, Stockhausen, Nono, etc. who had to "explain" to us what their "music" meant, how it was obtained, how original it was etc.
Cannot write decent music? Don't worry, just talk about it! People who don't like music will appreciate your work, because they don't "get" music anyway, but they might get reasoning and that might make them feel cultivated, culturally sophisticated etc.
Plenty of academic teachers, with no artistic inspiration themselves, will teach their students to produce "concepts", so that they can legitimize both teachers and students as artists.
"Academism" is probably the right term to describe this kind of artistic production.
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