Comments on: Street & Sign Language Shows at Woodward Gallery http://hragvartanian.com/2008/05/30/sign-street-language-woodward/ art, culture, photography, writing, ideas Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:34:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: hv http://hragvartanian.com/2008/05/30/sign-street-language-woodward/comment-page-1/#comment-3204 hv Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:28:04 +0000 http://hragvartanian.com/?p=1078#comment-3204 I feel I've been critical of "street artists" in the past...check out my article titled <a href="http://hragvartanian.com/2008/05/08/very-public-life-of-street-art/" rel="nofollow">THE VERY PUBLIC LIFE OF STREET ART</a> but remember that when the cubists practiced collage in the early 20th C. or the dadaists during WWI exhibited found objects people thought they were just pulling a fast one. Nowadays we don't think so. The conclusion I've come to is that we can't lump them all together...some street artists are con artists while others are quite talented and eager to explore new terrain. I feel I’ve been critical of “street artists” in the past…check out my article titled THE VERY PUBLIC LIFE OF STREET ART but remember that when the cubists practiced collage in the early 20th C. or the dadaists during WWI exhibited found objects people thought they were just pulling a fast one. Nowadays we don’t think so.

The conclusion I’ve come to is that we can’t lump them all together…some street artists are con artists while others are quite talented and eager to explore new terrain.

]]> By: a concerned citizen http://hragvartanian.com/2008/05/30/sign-street-language-woodward/comment-page-1/#comment-3202 a concerned citizen Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:40:15 +0000 http://hragvartanian.com/?p=1078#comment-3202 You show a inexplicable bias toward street artists in this review. Why only implicate the gallery as the commercial whore in this scenario? Aren't these artists as guilty of cashing in on their rising fame as the galleries that represent them? I've never seen a group of artists - and I use that term loosely in this situation - gain so much notoriety for such shallow ideologies, which they in turn roll over on as quickly as they would their grandmother, to make a few bucks, but more importantly to legitimize themselves with the institutions they are supposedly indifferent to. You show a inexplicable bias toward street artists in this review. Why only implicate the gallery as the commercial whore in this scenario? Aren’t these artists as guilty of cashing in on their rising fame as the galleries that represent them? I’ve never seen a group of artists – and I use that term loosely in this situation – gain so much notoriety for such shallow ideologies, which they in turn roll over on as quickly as they would their grandmother, to make a few bucks, but more importantly to legitimize themselves with the institutions they are supposedly indifferent to.

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