1. There are no right judgments in drawing. 2. You can’t assume symmetry in drawing; you have to make it. 3. You can make a drawing out of anything, though observation helps. 4. A drawing is a line taken out for a walk; don’t bring the line back home. 5. There are no mistakes … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2014
On the Throwingness of Good Art
A proposal for a new association between good art and good pizza: Throw your art up in the air and catch it—or don’t—and if you still like what you caught– or didn’t catch, and it’s shattered and cracked, jagged, dead in many pieces or just that first one, alive–then you’ve got a supple and … Continue reading
Art and Philosophy as Complements
Art is not philosophy embodied. Arthur Danto’s account was something along those lines, in an end-of-the-road kind of way. However, I can’t put any distance between myself and the view that art and philosophy are complementary accounts of the world that use labor, temper and function to model chunks of the world we thought … Continue reading
As I Lay Dying Both Ways
The problem with art is not only that it is in and of the commodified world. It’s also that no one knows what the fuck for. Continue reading
