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Art expert= art student, art historian, artist, professional, gallery owner etc…
Naïve = the Schmis, the novices
Experts prefer:
- abstract works (vs naïves prefer representational work)
- high art from museums (sentimental portraits)
- art is not there to please the crowds
- experts focus on background & rekationships of the objects, structure & composition (naïves focus on details eg hands, faces)
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Art is not solely the result of an artist’s behaviour. It depends on the viewer’s behaviour too. Art feels like a handshake between the creator & the audience. The artist puts forth something as art, and the viewer has to choose whether he/she can relate to it. If a work confuses you, or makes you feel uncomfortable, then one can call it art. Whether it is good art, that is a different matter.

One can make an analogy with language: learning to speak is a universal, innate predisposition for all children even though individual children learn the particular language of the people among whom they are nurtured. Similarly, art can be regarded as a natural, general proclivity that manifests itself in culturally learned specifics such as dances, songs, performances, visual display, and poetic speech.

DISSANAYAKE > 1995's Homo Aestheticus:

At first glance, the fact that the arts and related aesthetic attitudes vary so widely from one society to another would seem to suggest that they are wholly learned or 'cultural' in origin rather than, as I will show, also biological or 'natural.'

I wish I owned this book (library copy - yea for our libraries!) because there are so many things I’d like to underline.

“… I’d noticed that art devotes spoke like they were trapped in dictionaries and being forced to chew their way out…” - ha!

This is the best creative non-fiction I have ever read

The intro teases a very interesting book.

Website Got it for cheap GIFC

Online art platform DRAWER

The Art Industry actively suppresses reliable information about its products, a behaviour that the governing legal regime reīnforces.

Don’t colunteer extra information.
Brief emails > that looks busy & busy looks successful

VOCABULARY
* this piece has been “placed” instead of using “sold”
* website > online viewing room
* video > time-based media
* hanging paintings > installing a show

==> English Art language

!!! You have to place the object of art in the timeline of art history. You cannot trust your instinct as it is influenced by mass culture that surrounds you. Your gut falls back on the safegy of what’s accepted by society.

Memes:
smiling Gremlin (artist’s opinions at the opening)
Fanged Gremlin cheqing a glass bottle ( artist’s opinions once they leave

* The Square: satyrical movie about contemporary art
* Object-oriented ontology: the idea that any animal, vegetable, mineral, any object can have its own private existence, independent of & unknown to humans.
* Art Critic Clement Greenberg: Avant Garde & Kitsch
* Nicolas Bourriaud: Art since 1960
* Janson’s History of art (art history is just the history of the creative white male)

Artist: Danh Vo, Vietnamese artist
> masterpiece We the people (copy of Statue of liberty disassembled & all pieces distributed over different museums like e.g. A thunb in Guggenheim

> Oma Totem: tower of washing m/c, dryer & TV ( with the Vietnamese war Vietnamese became fugitives & fled to other countries. In Denmark, upon arrival, each family received these 3 objects to start a new life! = cultural assimilation

There are so many art worlds, and the art world is so small.
==> Lisa Frank, Children of the corn
Figurative painter, taking you into deep intra-psychotic conflicts going on in people’s minds.

i'm dragging my feet on this one, could be me...or it could be the book.

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

WILD journey behind-the-scenes in the modern art world. Bianca is asking the question we're all wondering: What does weird, modern art mean? What would it take to have "the eye" for art? She has no idea what she's asking for, but she goes "undercover" for all of us who are curious.

Audio actually. But goodreads doesn’t have it

This is brilliant!

Ok, now that Jack’s part is done for now, things are more interesting.

I would never have chosen to read this book, but it was suggested to me and it is always good to try different things… That being said, I am annoyed beyond the imaginable, at the ridiculousness of the “art world”. I should not be surprised by any of this. The writing is GREAT and it is very engaging even if I roll my eyes at “Jack” who is a shallow jerk. BUT, we shall see what happens lol

Honestly so far this just feels like the author getting verbally berated by an asshole gallery owner

Artists have always been abused. Art has always been misused. Some things never change. So infuriating.

"Julie is approximately five-foot-three, would lose a wrestling match with al dente spaghetti, and struck fear into my heart."

the author may not be having fun, but I definitely am

bianca bosker the WOMAN that you ARE

bianca bosker PLEASE let me buy u a drink and talk shit abt the art world for several hours

The book is alright - I mostly just purchased it to support the author, but it isn't really holding my interest. Dnf for now

It's a riveting book, but I've got 3 digital books checked out of the library & I'm going to have to push to finish this in time, then start another book, and another. I should've deferred the hold when it came through! I'm enjoying it, but I'd enjoy it more if I could read it over a longer period of time...