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Re:[teacherartexchange] teachers as artists: Bravo Carol!
From: Diane C. Gregory (dianegregory_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Good for you Carol. I agree with you completely. Very well said.
-- Diane Quoting Carokarn@aol.com: > I am an art teacher. I am not an artist, but I think I am a far better > teacher than a couple of "real" artists that I took classes from in my > undergraduate days and from some that I have observed teaching. I paint in > watercolor > and oils, did pretty well in a portrait class with Daniel Green (a great > artist/teacher), and I feel that I could be a fairly competent artist if I > wanted > to be, but obviously I don't. > Some of us are more interested in collecting and learning about different > cultures and mastering new techniques. I think we make a valid contribution > to art education. Do art historians need to be practicing artists? There > are > many art historians who are good or even great art teachers. Does it make > sense to say that sculptors need to master oil painting, or metal sculptors > need > to master stonecutting? It makes no more sense to me to say that we should > all be practicing artists because art education encompasses far too much. > Most of the art we recognize in history was not created as "art" but as > a means to record information, tell a story, record an image for posterity, > worship a deity, act as a computer or calendar, or provide some utilitarian > function. Art can be mathematics, architecture, engineering, philosophy, > history, journalism, medicine entertainment, the list is endless. Art has > been all > of those things and I doubt that all of the artists thought of themselves as > such. > For those of you who are practicing artists, you have much to share but > be careful that you do not exclude those who do not share your vision. Art > like a well cut diamond has many facets, and you may be just seeing one. > Carol > Clio, SC > > --- > To unsubscribe go to > http://www.getty.edu/education/teacherartexchange/unsubscribe.html > > --- To unsubscribe go to http://www.getty.edu/education/teacherartexchange/unsubscribe.html
  
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