George Kublar and David Byrne

    I thought that this reading from George Kublar was actually one of the more interesting readings we have had this year. I think that it is just complicated enough to make it interesting but it is also simple enough where you can just read it once or twice and get what Kublar is saying. This was by far one of the best readings we have had this year.
   One of my favorite parts of this reading is when Kublar says, "it is meaningless to debate whether Leonardo was more talented than Raphael." I think that this is a great point because you are never going to be able to prove if an artist is more talented than another. Each artist has their own ways of painting, own styles and own methods that you just cannot compare to each other. He makes a great point and says that they are both equally talented and just use their talent in different ways and methods. Also he says you can not compare artists talent wise because they are brought up in different time periods, around different environments that are not usually the same. He says that talent is not the difference between artists but how they got to their brilliant talent and the events it took to get there.
   Kublar begins to talk about how ideas can spread and compares how artists to scientists. He says that if there are two artists that go to two different schools they have nothing to learn from each other, and seems to compare this to biologists or chemists some how. This part of the reading was pretty confusing to me I really didn't understand what Kublar was trying to say and had to re read it a couple times to try to wrap my head around it. He then starts to talk about how every artists seems to be obsessed with something. For example he says Cezanne was obsessed with painting landscapes.
   Lastly, he begins to talk about the artists and their place in society. He says that the artists used to be categorized as an entertainer and their art was just meant to entertain people. He says that today the artists is a not a rebel nor an entertainer. He says that to be a rebel requires too much work for the artist. He says that the artists are "like Dedalus, the strange artificer of wonderful and frightening surprises for his immediate circle."
   This was a really well written reading and probably one of my favorite ones this year. I really like some of the points that Kublar made and thought they were very insightful.

    The David Bryne book was very interesting. It was a truly nice visual experience but a little odd at the same time. It was cool to see a book like that made entirely from powerpoint. I think that it was a cool idea to create this piece of art and I would really like to see the DVD he made of it. I thought it was pretty insightful and was a very different take on conceptual art and was refreshing and interesting.