[ladylib]

I also read somewhere that a lot of artists don't even know how to draw.

[Sabatier]

Drawing is one of those skills you can work at for a lifetime and always keep improving!

[ijcr]

"Thus the successful Artist .... He or she is able to see and depict social ills, injustices and other assorted important things which the rest of the population cannot see or feel without the help of the Artist. The art critic, of course, translates to the baffled public just what it is the Artist is trying to say with a passionate stroke of the brush or sensitive line of the pencil."


" Shock is always a great source of publicity, and "they" sometimes believe that John Q. Public must be shocked in order to be educated. Never mind that John Q. Public is footing the bill, but Mr. Public will be required to see Mapplethorpe photographs of men urinating in each other's mouths and ordered in school to admire random paint drippings on huge canvasses. If anyone dares to question the artistic value or point of the shock, then the word "philistine" and "barbarian" or "Republican" is brought out. Again, John Q. Public is usually not part of the outcry against this perceived outrage, although John Q. Public's news media is not only invited to the lynching but expected to join in and amplify the outrage."

F. Lennox Campello