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What Did You Think Of The Apprentice Artist Dragon's Den Make Me Some Art Programme Last Night
Posted by Tony Donaghey on 24 November 2009 - 8:40am.
New series about choosing some artists to work in a studio for 10 weeks - as an intro to modern art I found it quite fasinating - and gained some respect for Tracey Emmin. But Saatchi being referred to as King Maker and the last bit of stirring music was a bit OTT.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p4gq5/School_of_Saatchi_Episode_...
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I quite enjoyed it...
... despite the fact that I only had it on because I was limited to terrestrial channels.
It was a bit surprising that the experts had an attitude of "you can't put up any old crap and call it art". Some of the early applicants were similarly surprised - I'd like to have seen more of that section. They looked like characters more deserving of humuliation that the usual X-factor auditionionees.
"you can't put up any old crap and call it art"
Er, but wasn't that exactly what every last one of them DID?
I know
That's what was funny about it. What impresses the 'experts' is even more unpredictable than I'd imagined.
I enjoyed it
- and I thought the young Pakistani artist's video of himslef on a swing was the best piece.
However, the fact that none of them could actually draw was telling.
Like much of pop today - it's based on an idea, an image and a desire for celebrity - rather than being motivated by a desire to make great music - or art.
Technique underpins everything. And hard work. Hours and hours working away at your craft. Day after day. Loving what you do. Not caring you haven't eaten. You haven't even noticed. And finding about other artists. Absorbing influences. Noting and observing things about the world around you. Putting that into your own work. And more hard work. And then some more of the same.
Great art does not come from hanging about drinking cappucino in Hoxton