![]() ![]() Well, i'm a little biased on this one since i'm one of the 100 artists who were part of this project! But not really! Read on! the idea of serious and tortured solo "genius"). I like the approach to art, even among adults, as play, as collaboration (vs. I liked the "accordion" book construction, fun. I liked the concept and the idea of art-as-game more than how this actually worked out. I liked the q and a with some of the participating artists that opens the book. You get what you get, and the process is the point. I think I might have preferred more continuity in this particular occasion, because the effect is a little jarring, and the quality of the art varies widely, but if you are playing Telephone or Exquisite Corpse, part of the fun is the surprise, I guess. This particular 100 artist occasion seems more like the latter, where connections between pieces are not so obvious, where there are a variety of styles. ![]() Or you could just invite artists with a range of aesthetic approaches and it could get crazy. As one can imagine, if you ask artists to do this who are aesthetically in sync, everything could be very consistent overall. The idea is to build on what little you are given. A book based on The Exquisite Corpse game, wherein like "Telephone," an artist builds each new entry on only the last entry he or she can look at and respond to. ![]()
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