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Re: Cemetery Clip Art! (Why not? 1 more time)

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MaloneyMK
Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:04:34 EDT

In a message dated 8/3/99 7:53:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
talk-admin writes:

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You're right. So now I'm posting it where I meant to. Thanks.

MaloneyMK wrote:
>
> I think I'll add a little to this, which also may already have been heard
but
> I skipped the old thread so here goes:
>
> Scene designers, and sign painters use clip art. There's run of the mill
> clip art and then and then there's really good clip art... a lot of the
Dover
> Pictorial Archives for instance are amazing and well worth having as two-D
> reference material for anatomy, perspective, caricature, vintage
advertising
> styles of different eras....
>
> Andy Warhol and his ilk must not have convinced some of us that
> commercial/media/fineart can all be on equal ground. To be honest I feel
> exhilarated when I see the graphic design that goes on these days,
> cannibalizing every imaginable source. It's a kind of high tech commercial
> folk art. So maybe it doesn't have the same standards that we promote in
> teaching children how to look and how to draw what they see, and to have
> certain expressive qualities of homemade iconography. Art seems to be the
> back door where the spiritual gets into public schools. Learning to draw
is
> held sacred by almost anyone who wants to know for sure if he or she can
> produce art "the hard way" ... or if one is confined to abstraction and
> assemblage of the work of others.
>
> These thoughts are pretty random ... but I thought I'd share them.
>
> Kathy

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