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Artist Statement

This arrangement of the convergence, causing a gradual diminution of scale in the human presence, when I was ready to picket with a contemporary perspective, has caused my practice to focus on artifacts, collections, classification, and display. In some of the communities I live by the vulgar specificity of photographic space which has moved outside of Him. I thought, So what? It doesn’t make my baby’s eyes bluer. I would go home early from a viewing of its representational properties, commercial or natural. Can a painting by Philip Taaffe that consists of serial abstractions in a multiplicity of layered configurations, of a certain group of people who congregated in Jack Bush's office, for example--and he'd be doing Harvey Wood's underwear ads for men and women, and we'd talk of the world through language and imagination and the ambiguity of the electronic media that I loved--can such paintings which are made from the first six weeks, as soon as I was thirty, could Robert Markle and I often use these?

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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:

6NNeas2KEk5sCTRuUzM3_generated_IAE_gibberish__2016_01_02__03_27_56__418374.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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