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Sunday, August 16, 2009

good article

Todd Forsgren; Columbina passerina - Common Ground-dove, 2009

"There is a saying, attributed to the painter Barnett Newman, that “aesthetics is for art what ornithology is for the birds.” This quip sums up the divide between those who make art and those who think about art. Neither birds nor artists need their academic counterparts to do what they do..."

1 comments:

drollgirl said...

just saw this and thought of you:
http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/works/record.html?record=2850&large=1