Art tip: Art chatter!
Artists and especially people who are in the art industry but are not actually artists talk a lot about art. It’s not really their fault, galleries want it for sales blurb, critics have to write something, web sites need text to be picked up by google, collages feel the need to test students in something... so some words get generated. That’s all well and good until you try to learn art, and find you are up to your *** in opinions, and mysteries. I’ve seen a potter write that they had a “symbiotic relationship with clay” and perhaps they do, I can clearly see what clay is doing for them, but I’m struggling a bit with what they do for clay, there was more, pages of it, and then one tiny picture of one pot! The test of a porter is can they make lids that fit and jugs that pour, even when they have shrunk in the oven (kiln) and still keep the object so beautiful that when you have owned it twenty years, you still sigh with pleasure every time you pick it up. Both my parents can do this, fifty times a day, so I know what I’m talking about. If they can do this then that person’s art chatter may be of some value. If they hang about the pottery using big words and leaving their students with a bad taste in their mouth, feel free to ignore them. Observation and practice will teach you much more. Go look at pottery, or guitar, or photography, or read fiction, find stuff you like, watch that person work! Those people are your personal experts to find out there. Those who can really do what you are trying to do. And will ultimately do in your own way anyway, so true professionals are seldom worried about copying.
Don’t take advice from art experts who can’t art. If you don’t enjoy my art, don’t listen to me! Don’t take advice from pilots who can’t fly either!
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