Friday, 30 September 2011

Life Moves Ever Onward

I have to say that I get so angry, well unhappy that only those who have art degrees or art qualifications seem to be the artists of worth. I visited an art gallery  recently where I paid a considerable amount to enter and I cannot say I was a t all impressed by what I saw. Yet this artist was rated because she had an art degree. Not one single work of hers made me interested. Now that just might be me.

I have been fortunate to have sold a number of works but will I ever be considered an artist? I suspect not. This is my latest work of not art. I like it and hope you do also.
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  1. Unknown1 October 2011 at 03:14

    I don't think a fancy expensive degree qualifies somebody as a true artist, it just gives them something to write on their business cards. The true artist is the one whose paintings sell before they are hardly even dry, because people want to have them so much. They are the paintings that speak to people and hold special meaning for them. You can't learn how to do that by sitting in any class or workshop, but you put that special something into every one of your paintings. That's a real artist!

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  2. Anonymous1 October 2011 at 13:18

    Ralph, I like it! I don't think I am considered an artist either, except by artist blogger friends. I must say that I am dying to turn this piece sideways! LOL I see a modern building with someone on the walk in front of it. By the way, I've felt it necessary to start a new blog and will soon dismantle the old completely. If you are still interested, please email me if you have the email address, or Jerry, and I'll give you the new blog address. So sorry for the inconvenience. By the way...would you consider adding a "subscribe" button to your sidebar so I will know when you have new posts? I can't tell on my new blog blogroll, alas. Thanks!

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  3. Kay2 October 2011 at 00:41

    Ralph..you are a real artist, because you love what you do and have a passion for it

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  4. Sandra Busby5 October 2011 at 13:20

    I disagree with it all Ralph. An Artist is he/she who practices art! I did a foundation course in art and was totally repelled by the fact that I seemed to be being moulded in to something I wasn't meant to be. I was never going to 'lunge' at my canvas. I could never just comfortably throw paint around either. I was learning to follow a trend, a fashion and I decided that it just wasn't for me. How on earth was I to find out how Sandra Busby paints when all the time I am being told to paint like someone else, or in a way which feels un-natural to me. The only work I have done which I like are the ones that had nothing to do with my course, such as the Teddy Bear and the baubles in a glass etc. They are how I realised my own style because they truly came from me. And in contrast to what you have said, I had a similar discussion with a gallery owner yesterday and he said that it's the self-taught 'un-spoilt' artists that are the ones to watch now. All a Degree can teach us is technical facts about mediums etc and basic fundamentals, all of which I can get from a book, but neither a book or a Degree can teach us how to be Artists. It is only us that can search for it within ourselves. :0)

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