spinner opened this issue on Jun 03, 2002 ยท 21 posts
queri posted Mon, 03 June 2002 at 5:49 PM
The purist movement started when one caveman turned to his son drawing with a burnt stick and said-- that's not art, you didn't put the ocher into your mouth, chew it up and spit it on the wall! And whoever spit the ocher on the wall and outlined it with a burnt stick was doing postwork and was shunned forever more. When I'm talking to friends who know nothing about the medium and mention no post-work, their eyes glaze over. Nobody cares but us. Not even in Fractals-- well, most people still think Fractals are for Grateful Dead t-shirts, but never mind, the post-work controversy is everywhere. The only reason I care about mentioning postwork in the galleries, is, if that's a new outfit or hair object, I want to buy it! If you painted it, sigh, gone from my reach. Either the picture is a unity and works or it doesn't-- post-work is irrelevant. And I would prefer that people using Poser post in the Poser gallery, no matter how much Post work is involved. Because otherwise I might not get a chance to see their work. Emily