Sculptor Jerry Harris

This is going to be an art think blog in today's do-do world of  post-post modern art. The Art of Something and Nothing.

The life and death of Isadore Duncan. 30" high. Painted and carved wood. Collection of Dr. Suzanne  Fredericq, Lafayette, La. (Jerry Harris, 2008) Scroll down for more.

What is Conceptual Art?

In the exiguous world of art, and the art departments of American universities, there is a thinking that today's art should be devoid of meaning, feeling, and craftsmanship. Newly minted MFA's are supposed to knock 'em dead, get that money and fame, or a professorship--to hell with art. These darlings are into "conceptual art," nothing wrong with that, but isn't all art conceptual? Once an artist has an idea--it is a concept. It is the same thing with abstract art: all art is abstract. Nature is nature. An artist only sees this as going hand-and-hand with an evolutionary process, but in a different perspective. They can  render it  figuratively, abstractly, or conceptually. Artists are weird, to say the least. I should know.(more entries, keep on scrolling).

NYC The Arch Enemy

New York City has always intrigued me. When I was a teenager, all my friends wanted to move there. My deceased brother moved there to be a poet and songwriter. He got stabbed with an ice pick, survived, and got out--defeated. Another brother and his singing group won first prize at the Apollo. It did not help much.

I never had a great desire to go there. Bright lights never appealed to me. I always looked at Miss. Liberty as a fraud, something that would take one's life. Look at the state of art and literature there. The absence of art and culture is enormous. 

If I had a son or dauther who wanted to be an artist, I would not send them to New York City; I'd send them to Russia, England, France, or Germany where they take art seriously.

The Art Of Literature