How can someone have possibly made this? How in the world could it not have been made?Ĭheryl Haines, Haines Gallery, San Francisco: Clear intention, unwavering dedication, patience, perseverance, self awareness and the drive to make for yourself and no one else. Good visual art looks stunningly right and, in retrospect, obvious, or inevitable- yet it's also continually surprising. So I asked them, "What makes good art?"īrian Gross, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco: Art that is unique in conception and well executed.ĭeWitt Cheng, freelance art writer and critic, Bay Area, CA: Jorge Luis Borges wrote, "Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces molded by time, certain twilights and certain paces- all these are trying to tell us something, or have told us something we should not have missed, or are about to tell us something that imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the aesthetic reality." While art has become, in the experimental 20th and 21st centuries, impossible to define- critics learned long ago to stop being prescriptive, perhaps a little too well- Borges's tentative manifesto makes a good starting point- as long as we don't succumb to mystical mush. Ever wonder how experienced art world professionals separate out the best art from the rest? Me too.
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