I still love art but. . .

This is one of those weekends where all I have done and will do will be art homework of some sort. I know everyone else is in the same boat. Anyway, while doing some review for my art history final on Monday, I was looking at a minimal/conceptual piece called Terms most useful in describing creative works of art, 1960, by John Baldessari. Basically, this work is a canvas with words printed in 3 columns across the plane. Words like "Direction, Force, Interest, Beautify, etc." are used. I comment on this because we will be critiquing our drawings on Monday and it will be interesting to see if any of use any of these terms. I was also thinking how this work might include new terms from the Culture Wars to current art practices now. They could include ephemeral, outrageous, humorous, in your face, and multi-faceted. The use of text is used quite a lot by current artits like Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer and our very own M. Davenport. It is interesting to see an earlier artist using text where the inspiration was the gird system the letters made and how the viewer had to take a second look to think about the work. Good luck to everyone with the homework this weekend. ann