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The Art Of Cheating
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Boggart Blog's Cleo Hart and artist who actually makes pictures people enjoy looking at by slapping paint on paper, canvas or board has a little rant about the moderist approach to art of putting any old shite in the middle of a room and talking bollocks about it.

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The Art Of Cheating

First posted at Boggart Blog2009-06-07
by Cleo Hart

Art in this day and age can refer to pretty much anything. I heard recently that a gallery in New York awarded a top cash prize to an “artist” who produced what was basically a ‘pin-the-tail–on-the-donkey’ (and yes, its interactive, you can move the tail!) from a child’s birthday party, but he attached some deep and meaningful bollocks to it to give it substance, and now he’s probably laughing his tits off.

But somewhere in between the great masters and the talentless piss takers, there lies a grey area: blind photographer.

Oh yes, in California they are having a whole exhibition of work from many blind photographers. Now, I don’t have anything against the blind, and if taking photos really floats their boat then snap away.

What I do take issue with is the blind person taking all the credit as the artist. They can’t see fully, if at all, their composition; they don’t really know if it turns out how they wanted. Oh, yeah, they have the concept, the image of what they want in their mind. But this will have to be described to another person and set up with all the props or whatever is required, which may or may not be exactly what the photographer had in mind, but we’ll never know, and neither will the photographer.

I have a similar issue with the Paralympics. Again, nothing to do with the athlete’s disability, more the fact that the blind, short distance runners (up to 800m) are assigned a guide runner and 2 lanes; one for the athlete, one for the guide runner. But the medal goes to the athlete. What about the guide runner? Surely they will have had to train as hard, run as fast, break a Paralympics world record if the athlete breaks one?

It’s a bit like the school bully getting the school swot to do his homework for him.

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