And yet I am pretty sure if they put some enthusiasm and life into their work, and lost the cynical attitude, they would probably all be pretty good artists.
I have been to a few art shows in Toronto, not many...but I must say that beside Rebecca Belmore's at AGO and Edward Burtynky's I have seen nothing but milk-toast. It seems that artists here feel guilty if their painting actually has some quality of a good painting in terms of succulent paint, great colours something to communicate. They take special pains to show the viewer that he/she was not really trying to paint. It is a kind of jaded approach to art. The Gladstone show had a title for it, "Why the F*ck Do I Paint"...and honestly after seeing maybe a couple of reasonably painted works I honestly can answer that I don't know why they bother..
And yet I am pretty sure if they put some enthusiasm and life into their work, and lost the cynical attitude, they would probably all be pretty good artists.
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