/lit/ - Literature

>>10136912
>posting huffington post
Do you want me to link academic papers on deskilling? Is jornalism too lowly for you?

>Kandinsky was, without a doubt, conceptual. Mondrian was conceptual. The futurists were conceptual. As in, they developed a rigorous conceptual framework which they then sought to demonstrate and activate through an application of visual technique. All of the art movements of the modernists began as pure concept.
Conceptualism began with Duchamp. Conceptualism and "art that has any thought behind the purely material, aesthetic" behind it aren't the same thing at all (I think you know that already but somehow is trying to distort it to make a point).

The modernists weren't "purely conceptual" at all. Purely conceptual art is post-object art, art for the mind; anything that disregards the visual, material dimension of art altogether in favor of ideas. Most modernist movements brought both aesthetic and philosophical innovations to the game: Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism. The unifying factor within all these movements is a reaction to previous academic, traditional values such as the supremacy of mimesis over abstraction, the value of beauty, realism, representation and so on; they reacted to said values for they deemed them coercitive, bourgeois notions that were detrimental to the development of art and the full realization of artistic skill.

Let's make it clear: I'm not criticizing these developments in any way and I'm not also criticizing the schools of thought predicated on them; the problem lies in the art world itself, the way it absorbed these developments and the canonization of conceptual, deskilled art in detriment of all other modes of artistic production. I went to one of the most prestiged art school in Europe and the hatred for anything figurative, traditional or focusing on the graphic dimension of expression was severely put down by our instructors: "that's illustration, not art" was one of the catchphrases of my painting professor, who also happened to be connected to several curators of art galleries in Europe and the United States.

Talent (as in traditional craftmanship) is absent from their vocabulary and skill left the collective toolset of fine artists. What I want is a institutional landscape that doesn't impose deskilling on artists.

>>10136920
It's not about how hard it is to create something. It's about not throwing all craftmanship to the fucking garbage bin