Duchamp is a fraud

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12:39 PM 10/18/2007

Duchamp is a fraud

Art. We gotta have boundaries. Art isn’t art because mr. x says the elements he/she puts together is art. In order for elements to become art they must meet some commonly agreed to definitions and defined criteria of what makes, painting say, a painting and not just a wiping of a brush. Hmmmmmmmm???? My argument just died!

Uh oooooh????? Art does come out of redefining elements. This is how the new is born. So — education is required for some of us to understand the hermetics of the new. Those of us who are engaged in the old which once was new and are trying to create a new out of this old need to be educated about the new elements and their combinations to make what could be defined as the true new now going on.

So — by familiarizing one self with the elements of this new, we begin to understand what the new artist is establishing in this new art.

In the end, the more education one can garner, the better informed one is (this is a truth for all levels of life and life’s little daily encounters). It all boils down to I like or I don’t like and we either move on or get fascinated to the level of deep engagement. That’s life!

The good new (good = personal value judgment and is very much an arguable element) requires the new artist to have a vision and the art thus forms a path revealing the struggle to achieve the vision. I say struggle because struggle reveals a commitment (personal value judgment here). Again we (I) can agree with the vision, misunderstand the vision, hate the vision, like the vision, be indifferent to the vision, yada yada the vision.

Is it all about vision? Is it about seeing? Is it about revealing a position that is personal? Yada yada?

Then there is the moral issues and honesty. For me, whatever form the new requires and an artist commits to this form and the new, there must be honesty involvement. Otherwise there exists something in this activity that becomes false and suspect. We as people feel dishonesty and/or honesty from deep within our gut. We know it to be honest or dishonest at the basic non-verbalness of our being. This is a truth in art.

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