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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Visual Art The Ten Art Commandments

Posted by on Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:42 PM

Provided, awesomely, by a commenter on this post:

1. Thou shall not steal, only transform.
2. Thou shall not covet thy colleague's gallery.
3. Nor shall thou covet thy colleague's reviews.
4. Thou shall not say "I could have done that."
5. Thou shall not call video games art in vain.
6. Thou shall not criticize that which you have not seen in person.
7. Thou shall honor the studio and keep it free of those annoying red fibers from the carpet in your TV room that seem to get everywhere.
8. Thou shall not crush the hopes and dreams of younger artists.
9. Thou shall work faster and smaller.
10. Thou shall not watch the Super Bowl.

 

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1
god, i hate art.
Posted by i really do on January 27, 2009 at 3:16 PM
2
Whatever. The Super Bowl is fucking performance art.
Posted by jonahsl on January 27, 2009 at 3:18 PM
3
I love art, I just hate pretentious artists. Yes, I'm glad that your pretentious art is clearly more valuable than video games and the Super Bowl. Of course, when I watch the Super Bowl, I say "there's no way in hell I can do that". Malevich's "White on White" not so much.
Posted by F on January 27, 2009 at 3:22 PM
4
And #8 is just ridiculous. Yes, heaven forbid you provide honest feedback with which someone could actually improve themselves. Just tell them it's great and everything will be fine.
Posted by F on January 27, 2009 at 3:26 PM
5
This list needs to include:

Thou shalt not prepare or apply rabbit-skin glue indoors.
Posted by Greg on January 27, 2009 at 3:50 PM
6
Thou shall not be a pretentious art-critic or think you have original insight into life due to art.
Posted by lots left off on January 27, 2009 at 3:54 PM
7
Isn't it supposed to be "thou shalt not" instead of "thou shall not?" Can we get the grammar police in here please??? Old English sector preferably... Thank you.
Posted by kristinbellkitty on January 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM
8
Thou shalt reference 6 before throwing out 10.
Posted by Nay on January 27, 2009 at 4:44 PM
9
Do I dare admit that I appreciated this post?
Posted by Sad Comment on January 27, 2009 at 8:53 PM
10
Claiming that an emerging medium (videogames) is not art is fucking stupid and shortsighted. And pretentious.
Posted by Bah on January 28, 2009 at 10:35 AM

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