- There weren't so many particular pieces that stood out to me but it was that point in the day when you think you're having intelligent discussions (maybe so) but really they're just loose points. Regardless, being in the gallery environment always seems to spark conversations like that and these were a few topics that came up for us:
- Can art ever be a non-selfish pursuit? It's hard to analyse when you're not coming from a non-art/design stand point. I'm always surprised that anyone can look through my work and tell me that they enjoyed it (and I have received messages like that). Do artists ever really create with the intention of others? Or rather, is there always a certain element of selfishness, of the pursuit of creating.
- Placement and context of images online: I've seen drawings that looked not dissimilar to what I had seen in this gallery posted by people on twitter, drawn with Photoshop. In honesty it's hard to not attribute more to a physical piece. There are also questions in regards to the equalising of images on the net: a tumblr feed of a gif of a cat, an inspirational person, some TV show fan art and a Henry Matisse throws all of these images together and gives them the same weights. Is it always bad?
- When did we start thinking realism was a good idea??? And when did we stop
- I need to paint on canvas / something solid
@ The Serpentine (quick visit)
- Alex Katz's style is illustrative (if that can really be a quality) but was not that interesting as an exhibition
- simply, Etel Adnal had a beautiful use of colour and shape that would be good to refer back to.
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