Thierry de Duve - "When Form Has Become Attitude - And Beyond"

Thierry de Duve “When Form Has Become Attitude – And Beyond” (1994), Theory in contemporary art since 1945, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005, pp.19-31

This article deals with the question of what art actually is and how it is viewed differently from various aspects, comparing the important issues that are similar to each other but may seem to be oppositional matters in art education.

The curiosity has been raised thinking about what the answers are to what the good education of art is. Art has become a generous subject nowadays which it allows a variety of groups of people to produce and engage with art without any talent. But what is talent indeed? When the article has mentioned about talent and creativity, talent is something that is limited and inherent abilities given to only a certain number of people who are capable of doing something perfectly and able to play within the boundaries of perfection.  But whereas creativity is something that makes art lose its value from historical aspects and allows to generate a new field of art which is developing and taking over the education in academy to get people educated in what it is called, “contemporary art”; anything can be turned into art. Looking back at my history in art, during college, we learned to produce perfect paintings or drawings of objects and learned to imitate an artist model in order to establish a new style of painting of my own. However, since education in university began, that progress of developing art skills has been put aside. We began to learn more on the side of "creativity". We have gone through both types of education and have experienced both. It is up to individuals to evaluate which of the two is suitable for generating artists. From the text, it made me curious about different categorized aspects of art. What are the things that make art? What should be included and what should not be to make a good art? These are the things I have never realised before looking at art from these perspectives. To me, I do not think one could insist art is a matter of one or another.   

Dan Fox “Contemporary Art and Culture?”, Frieze Issue 136, January – February 2011, pp.104 – 105

The similar way of comparing related matters. This text also looks at problems and it talks about critical issues about art and the relations to politics as well as the general issues of the world.