Once again, I found this reading to be extremely beneficial. I will certainly be referencing it again in the future. It looks like this will be a textbook that I will not be selling after this class is over. It just has too much information that I need to get rid of it.
For the most part I simply found it helpful. I definitely see why we need an artist statement and all of her pointers to a good statement seemed great. However, I know for a fact from other writing classes, that I am not a big planner for papers. I do not know if I like all the steps in her process and how long her process takes. Not that it is not a good process, but it just might not be the process for me, at least not all of it.
I also found it funny that she had a contradiction in this section. She brought up the point that your statement should not include phrases that could describe any other artist out there. But later she applauds an artist who shrunk his statement down to five words, “Revolutionary art propelling history forward.” I do happen to believe that this statement could represent other artists, so in turn this should not be a good statement.
I also really like it when viewers see the art and make their own interpretations first, and then if they want to know more they can. Maybe the statement should be reserved at showings until after the first trip around the gallery. What if every piece has a different significance that you want the audience to know? If you write a short artist statement, that is a broad description of the collection as a whole, but not individual pieces. How is the artist to express the little significances in each work?
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