(si vous préférez la française) We are talking about art here, so let's class it up, shall we?
I have had ups and downs with my relationship to art, artists, and the world of art in general. For the last several years, I have been in a perpetual down, because I can't help but fail to see the relevance of art as having any higher performance than that of eye candy. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that! Jasper Goodall is fun as shit! Also, artists help me understand science. However, an article has just been brought to my attention which inspired in me a new idea, a sense that I may have a relevant voice in today's equally relevant visual arts agenda.
I am going to be an invisible art critic. That's not to insinuate that I myself will become invisible as an act of visual phenomena. Although, I must point out that if you're reading this right now, you're likely not looking at me also, though I may claim to exist, can you yourself actually prove that you're not making up the contents of this essay inside your own head? Perhaps I am invisible, as is my artwork. Not in the self-help-book sense. In the actual sense.
No! The critique will be invisible, it is up to the reader to utilize their imagination and determine how grand a scope the topics I digest. Am I being vulgar, or am I being passive? To what ultimate end does my opinion lend its incomprehensible weight? One must wonder whilst shivering into the long cold blank of my art criticism blog, which this blog will occasionally become, when the culture yearns desperately for clarification, nothing will be there. Yet nothing is bloated with possibility. And nothing is a constant that I can guarantee. Alas, I have said too much already, I am allowing the muddled fever of thought to infect the perfection of invisibility, and the imagination it would otherwise allow.
I shall now select the first piece for discussion today:
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| Chris Bradley's "Clyde" (2011), painted cast bronze and hot glue |
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By Beth, le critique d'art invisible
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