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Originally Posted by This Is Not Here
How often, in proportion to painters, do you hear conceptual, installation etc. artists being described as talented? No often enough, anyway.
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You're right that artists not working in paint tend to be fairly heavily stigmatised because of their rejection of a 'traditional' medium. More generally though, I think that the sad fact is that most artists, regardless of whether they're painters, sculptors, conceptualists, whatever, simply aren't all that good at it. I mean, in terms of living artists, there are a vast number that are enormously
successful but it's doubtful that many of them will go on to be recognised as being anything particularly special in years to come. Gerhard Richter and Bruce Nauman maybe, but not many others. My point is that anyone can be trained to become an artist, just as anyone can be trained to become a guitarist. And with dedication and the right training, they can probably be quite successful at it, at least on a commercial level. I just don't think you can equip someone with an
insight into what they're doing that will enable them to
transcend their training and dedication. You can give them stuff and they can absorb it, but what they ultimately end up
doing with it is something else altogether.