Art thoughts

It is not the sort of idea that takes a considered view of standard commercial practice yet my poaition lies thus. The idea of making Art and listening to the way art is talked about, the highly pretentious explanations of most artists work is not only expected but the orthodoxy. An art work has failed where words are necessary. This orthodoxy is counter creative allowing little hope for original work that doesn't follow these rules. Art has consequently become one of the least experimental areas of human endeavour. Even the least cerebral fine art requires the artist to submit some theory. Conceptual Art collapsed because, if the idea is the work, and an idea by it's nature is a linguistic construct, then a book is the correct vehicle. What resulted was outdated, basic philosophy with a handfull of uninteresting milestones. Since it's occurance, however, it has become necessary, to be taken seriously, to tag an idea on to the work, a sort of conceptual 'lite' with objects. In pure creative state, when drawing or making the subconscious overrides any self conscious appropriation of concept. Furniture can be a great vehicle for self expression, it quietly sits in the room, no shouting of 'me, me, me' The artworld is rife with myth and lie that always overrides truth.. Artists who are clearly very poor succeed. Once enough money is invested in thier work the collectors cannot afford for the emporer to be wearing no clothes. The artists have trapped themselves in a web of words yet few have much to offer. The saddest thing I saw was a fantastically skilled draughtsman, spent the first 18 years of his life perfecting his skills at looking at form and reproducing it. When he reached college he was told that all this work counted for nothing. Not that he was equiped to learn to use these skills to articulate idea but that idea was all and skill worth nought. His teachers, failed artists, were all wrong. The idea is of utmost importance but it is the ability to articulate the idea to others is what is important, lay the sheet work for Beethoven in front of me, a non musician and I'll make an unholy racket. Sadly he rejected art. Dada, Duchamp have a lot to answer for and it is only very recently that artists are daring to reject thier dogma. Not that they were wrong, just that they had only grasped part of the story. The resultant orthodoxy has led to a situation where the experimental is now conventional and the conventional now experimental. The most shocking and daring work is now decorative, even figurative. This years Turner Prize was won by a wonderful work of craftsmanship in goldleaf and bore little relation to Duchamps readymade urinal or a century that saw Tracy Emin repeating the idea with her bed.. To dare to step away from the mundane reapproapriation of a chunk of reality and its submission as art in the gallery setting is the action of a brave individual. In many ways, 20th century art became like the horse in the age of the motorcar, pure self indulgence. Art once was at the cutting edge of human endeavour. Da Vinci, Michelangelo produced work at the pinnacle of what man could achieve Today the true avant guarde lays in other areas, computer technolgy, science, it is difficult for artists to compete. I believe an art will develope to re take the lead. Steps in to the true nature of humanity can only be a short distance off.