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Well I'm none of those things, nor do I call myself an artist, I just tossing out a reason why the term maybe ought to be pretty broad. I entered a print in something billed as an art show (or actually "art ashram" see my post in the southeast region US forum here about it) along with other photos, paintings, sculptures, a performance piece etc.
If you are a photographer you enter photographs, if you're a painter you enter a painting, if you're a screen printer you enter a screen print.
Look, I'm not going to agree with you, and you're not going to agree with me. It's time to agree to disagree and move on, otherwise I'm just going to have to have the last word.
The difference between you and Roger is that you are right and Roger is wrong.
Hum, ok then. One guy did a performance too (wonderfully - and he's a friend of mine) so he, well, performed a performance.
Congratulations, Roger. You are now a Artist Practitioner-Licentiate.
Yes, I do judge, and I'm not ashamed of it either. (People judge all the time, but just don't like to admit it).
And in my judgmental ways I think calling yourself an artist is pretentious. Why? To be an artist assumes a high degree of skill, that you are very good at what you do. To be the judge of your own skill and deem it very high and to therefore call yourself an artist is - pretentious (to present yourself to be more impressive than you maybe really are).
'Photographer', 'Painter', 'Sculptor', etc is simply more honest and to the point, and doesn't sound like anything other than exactly what one does to express.
So my wife should refer to herself as a printmaker, photographer, painter, sketcher who occassionaly does clay work? Or instead of saying a printmaker should she say woodblock, lino, serigraph, etching (and that too can be broken down) printmaker?
When I hear a person when asked what they do and they answer they are a photographer I think commercial or wedding photographer whereas artist more likely means they are shooting for themselves same as a painter does rather than on commissions or as paid jobs.
In the end words are for communicating and when we need to replace a word or two with a couple of sentences that may almost convey the same idea then communications is weakened not strenghtened.
Not exclusively a photo term these days but one I hate is "vintage."
Not exclusively a photo term these days but one I hate is "vintage."
Not exclusively a photo term these days but one I hate is "vintage."The word that does it for me is "contemporary", every thing has to have contemporary added to it to make it sound desirable.
"contemporary vintage photographs" [prepare to hurl!]
I saw him being pulled by a speed boat and they called him Skip!Art, strictly defined, is a man with no arms and no legs attached to a wall.
If you are a photographer you enter photographs, if you're a painter you enter a painting, if you're a screen printer you enter a screen print.
Look, I'm not going to agree with you, and you're not going to agree with me. It's time to agree to disagree and move on, otherwise I'm just going to have to have the last word.
Yes,the art is how he rings doorbellsArt, strictly defined, is a man with no arms and no legs attached to a wall.
What if you do all of them or mix them together?
Yes,the art is how he rings doorbells
He is who???
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