docweathers Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 The curator for a major juried exhibit in our area was interviewed by our local paper.Here are a couple of quotes from the interview: First, please translate these 1. " A striking example of an artist allowing her process to embrace the mismatched flaws of a digital program seeking perfection. " 2. " Yet, I feel the subject is something else entirely, maybe a reminder of the complexities of vision we take for granted as our mind seamlessly stitches the visual world back together." Second, can anyone direct me to a treatise, tutorial or the like that would help one become competent in this dialect? Though this stuff sounds like an artsy spin on psychobabble, I suspect that it is very important to describe your works to curators in this dialect if you want them to favor your work. Seriously... any suggestions would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyne Schoenmann Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Seriously Gismo: do we need unintelligible sentences like these in the (art) world? When I read art critique like this, I get tooth ache..... Evelyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bciskepottery Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 http://www.pixmaven.com/phrase_generator.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Oz Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyne Schoenmann Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 33333 = It should be added that the optical suggestions of the spatial relationships endangers the devious simplicity of the remarkable handling of ljght. Hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerdry Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 I got this: I find this work menacing/playful because of the way the optical suggestions of the figurative-narrative line-space matrix notates the substructure of critical thinking. I may actually have a piece of pottery that fits this description! PS. You have to click on http://www.pixmaven...._generator.html for this to make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Wish I spoke art babble, skipped that class in college thought it sounded boring it's actually quite amusing. Denice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyne Schoenmann Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 The carp (oooops, wrong spelling) critiques formed by the generator are actually addicting..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docweathers Posted September 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 As much nonsense as this stuff is, I seriously believe that at some level it is a dialect that when addressed to curators, it will make them like your work better. ... and thus include your work in their exhibits. As Evelyne points out, these phrases are addicting and curators are serious addicts. You may do well to feed these gatekeeper's habit... if you want to become a famous artist. I would really like to find a systematic way to test this hypothesis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiselleNo5 Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 So, write an actual description if your work, then deconstruct it word by word with a Thesaurus in hand. Choose the word that is most high-falutin' (the opposite of what I just did there). It doesn't even have to make sense, really .... most artists'statements with this kind of language don't really make sense either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karenk Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 ......" embrace the mismatched flaws of a digital program..." This quote conjures up images of a sledged hammer mangled computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRankin Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 I just spent the last 20 minutes punching in 5 digit numbers and reading all the responses and I think I'm beginning to understand it. I'll be ready for my next juried exhibit. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docweathers Posted September 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 I think it is sledged hammered language.This thing has caught my interest. Attached is a pdf of the seminalresearch on International Art English, IAE. I think it is something thatartists, not just art critics, need to speak... If you want to talk to winthe favor of the gatekeepers of the art world. International Art English - Triple Canopy.pdf International Art English - Triple Canopy.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavy Fire Studios Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 I had a freaking awesome art instructor named Tom Askman who has the word for this speech: Bloviation. Bloviating. Bloviate. It's essentially using big, smart-people words to describe the vast impact of the cornucopia of nothing. That's Art with a capital "A" for you!! Example: Normal word: "Rabbit." Bloviated rabbit: *clears throat and puts on a beret with matching infinity scarf and sipping Starbucks* "The creature we perceive as that of lagomorphic physicality in actuality goes beyond of mere human psychoanalytic ken; rather its presence stands as a keenly metaphoric balance between that which is to be preyed upon to sacrifice for the needs of the many, or the epic and eternal struggle for survival and procreation." ... ...LMFAO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Coyle Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Sad to say, we have a local art magazine here in Santa Fe that publishes critiques that are even less coherent than those created by the five digit generator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavy Fire Studios Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 WAO. What the heck are they speaking, Sanskrit?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 When I was an IT trainer/courseware writer I had a sticker on my monitor: "Why use a big word when a diminutive expression will do?" Perhaps it should have said "Why use one ordinary word when 35 mismatched words will do?" Now I know why I'm not an artist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Oz Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 I must concretize this and give you an answer on an indeterminate date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 Oh Ze Frank, how I love you!!! Thank you Matt, that made my day! My first thought was also to post the crit generator, but many others were faster. 1. " A striking example of an artist allowing her process to embrace the mismatched flaws of a digital program seeking perfection. " read, "The artist does not appear to be capable of looking past their method of working. The artist appears to be using a formula of some kind to get to an end result that a formula can't achieve." (Also read, "I think this artist is barking up the wrong tree, and it's kind of funny to watch. In a non-hierarchical sense, of course.") 2. " Yet, I feel the subject is something else entirely, maybe a reminder of the complexities of vision we take for granted as our mind seamlessly stitches the visual world back together." Read, "This reminds me of something. Gimme a minute....nope. Lost it." (Also read, "That blotch reminds me I need to pick up milk and the drycleaning.") Not all "critical writing" is critical in a useful way. I too lack an MFA for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 Aaaand this is what the generator gave me for my (modified) birthday digits of 14176 "With regard to the issue of content, the reductive quality of the sexual signifier notates the essentially transitional quality." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyne Schoenmann Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 I just spent the last 20 minutes punching in 5 digit numbers and reading all the responses and I think I'm beginning to understand it. I'll be ready for my next juried exhibit. Paul See?!! I told you it's addicting Thanks to Gismo and bciske we all will be expert art babbling jurors in no time.... Evelyne PS: I just read Diesel's translation of Gismo's first question. Now, Diesel, be a real friend and post that link to the "Art Babble Generator Translator" please!! ( ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docweathers Posted September 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 IAE sounds very similar of the "word salad" that bright schizophrenicssometimes make. If you listen to them casually, it sounds like it makessense, but if you listen closely, you cannot make any sense of it.Also, I was thinking about why some people look at these jabberings as aform of wisdom and insight... think of the babbling of the Delphi Oracle orthe I Ching. Both provide a kind of wisdom/seeing like a Rorschach, byloosening your cognitive structures so that you can more easily projectyour own wisdom/insight/aesthetic appreciation on the subject. So, maybecritics do not describe the art but jumble our normal view of an object tohelp us see it in a new way, in a way that we already knew but was not conscious... a la the I Ching.Thus, instead of some IAE, a few lines from the I Ching might work as well.I am working on a research project to test some of these ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pres Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 Even though it has been many years since I last read it, Fountainhead had several discussions of the tastes of the times including these bloated expressions of what is good and proper for society as opposed to the artistic expression of the individual. Even then, there is very little to say about a piece of work, interpreting the artists intent in so many words that say so little, that are so politically correct, innocuous, non threatening and un-contributing other than to raise the critique to an intellectual level that the critic creates a new piece of work in the critique itself. Exhausting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 Sorry Evelyne, it's not a translator program. I'm fluent in rambling, semantics, blovification and I have a working knowledge of bull$hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Min Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 IAE sounds very similar of the "word salad" that bright schizophrenics sometimes make. If you listen to them casually, it sounds like it makes sense, but if you listen closely, you cannot make any sense of it. Perhaps curators share a personality trait with schizophrenics. I wonder how receptive a curator fluent in jabbering would be to someone trying to have a discourse with them in the same dialect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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