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Artist Statement

As a self-legitimizing ‘hero’, as my theme for a cafe, and in my research on tectonic plates, mountains and creatures which once covered much of its multiple meanings and effects enter the Virtual Library; Contents: Automobiles & Methods of Logic Banking and Erotica Bookkeeping and the interiors of ongoing change. The new paintings are a godless world. Humanity has become remarkably altered, yet the presentation of the composition which is not only of the advantage of seeing and perception of space, between conventional representation and the far, in the real and the movement of the street. In this work on the other, come to the second series, El Taller, taken in the historical reality of our greatest assets: our natural environment. They portray the subtle dramatics which lighting could produce. More and more of a geometrical progression. The movement is in words researched for African Kuba cloth. They are disbelieving and incredulous, at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. I often spit out my dirty secrets on to the ‘cool’, more inert quality of the aesthetic image or whatness of things.

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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.

To get another statement, reload the page.

This "statement" is from this source file:

uuAzwXfCMVE77zhfbHeP_generated_IAE_gibberish__2016_01_02__03_27_56__293367.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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