The Inner Man
Click on cartoon to view enlarged.I recently heard of a workshop here in Los Angeles where one can learn the new art of using living cells from animals or plants to create works of art. As Dave Barry says, I'm not making this up. Evidently there's a way to get the cells to divide and grow so that the "artist" can shape them into a new form. One can envision the day when a graduate of these classes can say, "see that sculpture on the table? That's grandma." Sure, there may be a few ethical problems to work out, but we live in a time when an art student in a university can hand it a blank piece of paper as a thesis and claim it to be the quintessence of minimalism.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:40 AM
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Why am I not surprised at Mr. T. Love this, it is so like him.
A friend of mine showed me a prospectus for a European school: It reads in part: ”The focus would be on the development of the artist rather than on the work that the artist produces ... the program uses art as we know it now only as a tool to define what our students, the artists of the future, may make out of it; ideas executed are not considered valuable unless the consequences of those ideas are understood as being of first priority... At (our school) they are not bothered about the acquisition of technical skills; the student should already have those when he arrives, or else they can be learnt elsewhere. The emphasislies entirely on the individual student’s personal artistic development.”
Reading further in the prospectus, I found that the woman who runs the school is a member of a group whose stated aims a.To establish secret factories for art weapons. b. To train and finance undercover armies of artists for intervention/rescue operations in villanious states.
I am not clear as how one does a. and b. Can any of our artists out there illuminate this for me please.
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