To create bona fide genuine Art (not fads or fashion)... you have to put in real efforts... There aren't any shortcuts!
To be a bona fide artist in the real sense you must have a gift for drawing and a sense of colour. Unfortunately no art schools/colleges/universities or 'degrees' can install this in you... There's no transfer technology. No cut paste.
Art collages churn out thousands of BFA, MFA "Artists" every year... And we very well know how most of them end up or what they create...
As a result there are so many fake, pretentious artists and Art doing the rounds of the art world today... In the name of abstract, modern, conceptual etc and going beyond simple old school 'Representational Art', that is ...what's in front of us: 'Mother Nature' in all it's glory!
Especially in the contemporary Indian art scene. Most are first-rate frauds... Without any talent or skill... Only with their high profile connections, social networking skills, ability to hold wine glasses with fake pride in their fake English accent! They dress up in "designer clothes" and show up every week on social gatherings and make it to the Page 3 of mainstream media. They never really paint or draw... They can't afford to dirty their hands...
Many have conveniently gone into digital or video art... Basically computer aided Photoshop!! With advanced digital, off-set printers...you can take out prints on canvas or artists quality paper. You may camouflage by applying few strokes over it with freehand or apply varnish etc.. & low & behold..
Then they say it's their work of art.
I am writing all this to make genuine art lovers & collectors aware when they buy or view Art today.
Animesh Roy
15 January 2019
Poznan Poland.
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