Comments on: Virtual world, real art http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/25/virtual-world-real-art/ Your news of a virtual world Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:20:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Latin American Artists http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/25/virtual-world-real-art/#comment-1599 Latin American Artists Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:59:17 +0000 http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/?p=221#comment-1599 What a great news article - art is most certainly in the eye of the beholder and often the "critic" tries to separate fine art from the artisan: where would Damien Hirst be without his "artisans? He would do well to try and paint some of his own works. He is not an artist but an artiteqt! Although I had never heard of this type of art before, I would compare it to the fine wood works created in the south of Colombia and Ecuador where art and fine utility items depict different local scenes using different types of woods blended together to form high quality art as well as bowls and plates. I do know one thing - Hirsts shark won´t last 12,000 years! And just like the mountains and the pyramids, perhaps the only art that will survie in the long term will be Lapidary art - so what which tale will be told about us living today at that distant point in the future!? What a great news article – art is most certainly in the eye of the beholder and often the "critic" tries to separate fine art from the artisan: where would Damien Hirst be without his "artisans? He would do well to try and paint some of his own works. He is not an artist but an artiteqt!

Although I had never heard of this type of art before, I would compare it to the fine wood works created in the south of Colombia and Ecuador where art and fine utility items depict different local scenes using different types of woods blended together to form high quality art as well as bowls and plates.

I do know one thing – Hirsts shark won´t last 12,000 years! And just like the mountains and the pyramids, perhaps the only art that will survie in the long term will be Lapidary art – so what which tale will be told about us living today at that distant point in the future!?

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