But I can remember putting together my first apt and knowing that I could put scribbles on the wall that would be just as good when I couldn’t afford real art. I forget the artist who did sports figures from that same period. He was so careless in his materials and canvas that curators had to immediately remove his work and reset onto a properly primed canvas. Our fine arts class had us priming canvas with rabbitskin glue (yuck) and gessoing walls.
Nowadays you buy pre-primed canvas, and all modern technology type tools and the ‘art’ is crap....Perhaps Van Gogh(?) was right. You must suffer for your art...........