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What do people think of Banks Violette?
just about everything has gotten better as time goes on, except fine art. i can count on one hand artists who have made lasting contributions in the last 25 years.
I don't think art is becoming worse so much as it is becoming commercially decentralized in clustered schools of influence. Inevitably, like in furniture design, there is only so much more room for genuine innovation and influence. The days of dominant figures looming over the industry and public's awareness with trademark "isms" may have subsided, but there is as much good work being made now as there has ever been. I think the post-Duchamp conceptual school that predominated the 70's and 90's (which bookended the 80's interest in the urban genius savants and commercial commentators) was the bottom of the barrel. Now that the phase of ***** stained crucifixes has crusted over with public indifference to shock, it seems there is a much more traditional emphasis on investment in technical skill and subtle figurative development which hasn't been seen since possibly proto-Cubism or Surrealism. :artforum:
this is kind of a funny statement coming from someone with a Gerhard Richter avatar. i think you nailed it with decentralization though. it isn't so much that good work isn't being made, but that a greater amount of art is being given a venue in which to be shown. within these works there are currents and trends, but as with fashion, these are more likely to be articulated by scholarly discourse than by the artists themselves.