Via ideas, images and memories of living for four months in a certain relation of two contrasting colours, the contrast of Light Red and one that yields its secrets only in our present age of the picture, the discursive logos of modern thought as represented in the design and perceptual system led me to this introspective yet extraspective distillation of my feelings. But although this generally produces calm, it remains that sometimes we glimpse proof of the canvas support as pictorial ground, conveyed specifically by the demonic in the exhibition space, the simulation of that which is Not.
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.
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.
A good artist statement may be:
A bad artist statement probably:
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.
To get another statement, reload the page.
This "statement" is from this source file:
V43UqBTt9R3uZP7Epq2z_generated_IAE_gibberish__2016_03_19__20_47_42.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
To contribute to these entertainments, clone the git repository, do your stuff and submit a pull request.
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