Chapter 9 "For Your Consideration"

Personally if I was on the committee to decide to allow Fountain to be shown at the exhibition I would have voted to not have it shown at the exhibition. To me art is something intimate between the artist and the idea. Artists get inspired by an idea or concept and then interpret their idea through their art to communicate this idea with others. The other half of this intimacy comes when the artist is creating the work no matter what medium an artist used the physical action of making art gives it a personal meaning to the artist. For an artist creating their own work to display in their home is much more value than buying a generic artwork from the store. From my perspective this is almost insulting to artists that he can just go buy an object and not do anything to it to make it his own other than just writing a face signature on it.

My criteria for an exhibition would be artwork that is something handmade by the artist with a concept, intent, and purpose. I want to see that the artist put time and effort into their artwork and that there was thought in developing the concept that they want to communicate.