After looking at the ARC, Art Renewal Centre website over the past few years, a rapidly growing number of people have been publishing their essays on there, largely refuting ‘modern art’. Here are some interesting quotes from some of the top people at the ARC.
“All the stunts have been tried. Blank canvases, silent piano solos, random smearings of paint, random drippings of paint, random swirlings of paint, random selection of materials, selection of fecal matter as the medium… you name it, it has been tried, so now what? Curiously enough, the only novelty left is to create genuinely good art using good techniques… a practice mostly abandoned for the last 100 years.”
Brian K. Yoder (2003, http://www.artrenewal.org)
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