Much of the
art around, in galleries and art magazines, is only interested in
being noticed. In its lack of content, and in its desire to be
different, ironically it ends up looking much the same;
sensationalist, boring, and common.
"Photographing freaks and oddballs - or making ordinary people
look like freaks and oddballs - can be, after all, one of the
easiest photographic cheap shots: the grotesque is not far removed
from the picturesque, and has a similar appeal to the lowest level
of taste." (43)
Thomas Albright
"... we find among artists and art students many who, instead of
thinking and searching order, dash at their work in a wild splashing
frenzy, without reason, without an interest in finding the way, just
wanting the goal, screaming and stamping their feet to get it - not
interested in the process of getting it." (44)
Robert Henri
"The creative individual has no desire to get away from what is
normal and ordinary for the purpose of being different. The desire
to be different for the sake of difference is harmful...as in the
`escape mechanism' of neurotics..." (45)
Rudolf Arnheim
43. Thomas Albright, On Art and Artists, (U.S.A., The Chronicle
Publishing Co., 1989), p. 162
44. Robert Henri, The Art Spirit, (Toronto, Canada, Fitzhenry &
Whiteside Ltd., 1984), p. 134
45. Rudolf Arnheim, Toward A Psychology of Art, (Berkeley and L.A.,
Cal., University of California Press,1966), p.299
