Preach, Brother Robert. In the 45 years that I have been writing about art theres been a tragic depreciation of the traditional skills of painting and drawing. The nuts and bolts of the profession. In part its been caused by the assumption that photography and its cognate media, film and television, tell the most truth about the visual. This is not true. The camera, if its lucky, may tell a different truth to drawing, but not necessarily a truer one. Painting and drawing bring us into a different, a deeper and more fully experienced relation to the object. We have had a gut full of fast art and fast food. What we need more of is slow art. Art that holds time as a vase holds water. Art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel. Art that isnt merely sensational, that doesnt get its message across in ten seconds, that isnt falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media. - Robert Hughes
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:32:43 +0000
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