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Artist Statement

This texture, drawn toward patterned surfaces, and particularly to Representation in Full Relief, will no longer have that slam effect that the extent of tone-contrast causes. By increasing the extent of exposure to the divine Child/Nature/Mysticism/Science, and interested by current images from nature, I have described a prohibition of such ideas in public spaces: People smoke neither to celebrate nor demonize, but, to a point of the physical transmission and representation of the photograph, ‘Un Coup de Dés’ by Stephane Mallarmé, compose by their collective actions a spatiality, as a book, which, over the years has been an important economic roles disseminator, and is still so today with NAFTA and global markets. This spatiality becomes as a global textile which reflects cultural exchanges, colonial relationships, and which causes trade wars and labour intensive periods of social warfare, in the manner of Syd Hallam or my father's influences. During the latest such transitional periods, there was a subject as is a case of beer, a block of ice, a bag of groceries and a structured entity that has become a topic of foreboding, as is often explored in the Carmen Lamanna Gallery. In this series of acrylic paintings entitled The Language of Visual Symbols, this work was very much slowed I feel, down-to-the-left rather than to the Rockies, where Fred Varley and Arthur Lismer and their paintings changed considerably, where they are shot down again, creating layerings of despair.

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Wait what? What did you just read?

I ask myself the same thing after I read a lot of real-life artist statements too similar to the above.

You Can Draw These From a Hat Because It's All Farce

It's okay. It's supposed to be farce. Exactly like too much similar writing about art is not--not intentionally anyway.

Folks have studied and named the fugly beast which is such writing. It is International Art English, or IAE.

Good and Bad Artist Statements

A good artist statement may be:

• Optional: if it is better that there is no statement, please make none
• Clear and accessible
• Usefully informative or descriptive of the art in away that may not be obvious to the observer, but which improves their experience or appreciation of the work upon learning.

A bad artist statement probably:

• Lacks any of those qualities
• Is conceived for any of countless bad reasons which all artists should say no to
• Perhaps at worst profanely anoints and separates The Opaqueonaut: in reality the artist turned fool, but too few people see the emperor's clothes

How This Works

This page randomly selects and serves pre-generated farcical artist statements, many of which were created with computer assistance; for example by statistical sentence recombobulation: training an AI on actual IAE, then having it gurgitate similar stuff.

The statements, being AI-generated, are by nature (and if human-created, by dedication) in the Public Domain.

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This "statement" is from this source file:

KyMzJkdDrhrMJs5kQv6X_generated_IAE_gibberish__2016_01_02__03_27_56__269365.txt

This page doubles as an API. To get a plain-text statement without this explanation, call the page with any GET variable declared, like this:

http://earthbound.io/data/gibberish-artist-statements/index.php?gib=florf

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