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I don't know about the rest of you but I often struggle to come up with an artist's statement when I am exhibiting work. I look at other people's statements, some of which either leave me cold or have me in stitches, so no help. I came across this site, which is hilarious, so I thought that I would share with you...
https://artybollocks.com
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When my daughter was doing a fine art degree she had a statement on her bedroom door which read " The artists statement about his work says more about the work than the work itself ever can " . I firmly believe that the choice of frame is of paramount importance and can either be just right or can completely detract from the work by upstaging it , therefore my version is " The choice of frame around the artists work says more about the work than the artists statement or his work ever can " .
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Well, I could hardly disagree more with the first statement from tracerman - I can only hope it's irony.
As to the frame point, though - well here's one of mine just framed: t'is my brother's birthday present from me: I didn't choose the frame, probably fortunately, but the framer who did has, I think, certainly enhanced the painting.
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A good frame and mount (if used) are critical in the presentation of a work and can only serve to enhance it - they can even make a poor work look acceptable. However a poor frame and mount can spoil if not kill a good piece of work.
But the problem is that we all have different views on what constitutes a good frame. I much prefer a modern frame with square profile and, for me, a mount must be at least 2.75 inches wide. So as you can guess (sorry Robert) but I wouldn't chose the example given above which looks to me a bit dated. So where does this leave us?
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by MichaelEdwards
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It's not a mount, it's an inner frame. I agree that mounts - which I'd only use with watercolours normally - should be much wider than that. Brother chose this frame - I like it, but whether I'd have chosen it myself I don't know; it does pick up the colours and tones of the painting rather well (in my, and obviously in his, opinion: the inner frame was the framer's idea).
On artists' statements - if I can possibly get away with it, I simply don't make them. Most of them are just typing - words, words, and more words, none of them meaning a damn' thing. If you have to explain your work, in my view it's failed - say it in paint, or say it in words, but don't use words to make sense of the painting. I suppose it might be a bit different for installations and 'conceptual' art - although I don't see why. I've never yet read an artists' statement that made the slightest degree of sense, and assume this sort of flaccid gobbledegook is what art students are taught to write in order to attract grants or galleries.
But then - I've never got on with the 'art world', as represented by this sort of cod-intellectual salesmanship.
(We're in a bit of a mood this evening, here at the Batcave; you get those days, when everything and everyone seems to be going out of their way to be annoying....)
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