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by agoraartgall on Mar 10, 2011

It is a frequently heard and repeated comment, and sometimes complaint, that contemporary art is created by artists who don’t actually know how to paint. This need not be a negative thing, however; for example at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts there is no separate department of painting and drawing, not because the artists cannot paint or draw, but because the philosophy of the Academy is that everything is included in design, and therefore that it is appropriate to teach it altogether in a school. The idea behind teaching skills in this way is that contemporary artists should first of all be able to think, not create blindly and thoughtlessly. There is no doubt that technique is important but without thought, an artwork will have no idea and soul, which means in turn that it would not touch modern viewers in a meaningful or lasting way.

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