ART AS A CAREER During my many years as an artist, a commentator, an activist, and even as an administrator I have listened to so many arguments and words and read so many articles and letters on the subject, but the visual arts as a career...
When you have worked in a studio and been involved with the visual arts and have written about it for many years you will find that there are certain questions that never go away. They are perennial. They keep coming up. Among those are things like...
PROSTITUTES AND PIMPS? Most artists I know (this includes myself I guess) tend to be a little manic-depressive. This term tends to describe us a lot better than the current description now favoured that of being bi-polar. We are not that at all, just plain good...
Some Confusion For as long as I can remember the debate about ‘What is fine art, and what is not’ has been ongoing. Some people are quite passionate about the subject to the extent that more often than not when it is broached passions flare. There...
Men and the Visual Arts Right from the outset I must stress that this is not a scientific document and all the issues dealt with are hearsay and opinion. I’d also like it to be known that I am not a chauvinist who is ‘picking on...
Recently I was in London and realised three dreams I have held dear: One was that I made a dash across Abbey Road in London. The very place diagonally opposite the EMI studios where the Beatles had crossed, and which was shown on the record cover...
When the artists were creating the wonderful paintings in the dark caves of Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain, that being 15,000 to 30,000 years ago, they were already technically pretty far advanced. The pigments they used and the permanence of the pigment and...
Things appear to have changed so much since I was young. Maybe you too can remember that the local GP was treated with utmost respect and even awe. If the doctor had to be called out you would be dragged to the bathroom regardless of your...
What are art groups and societies and what is their purpose? Are they fulfilling their mandate and adhering to their constitutions? Where to? What is the purpose of Art Groups and Art Societies? An interesting question. Did the founding fathers and mothers create them merely to provide a bit...
As I write this article there is a questionnaire being circulated throughout South Africa which we hope will ultimately give us the information and statistics we so sorely lack. Once this data-bank is in place, hopefully many unanswered questions regarding the state of the visual...