https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/new-ways-of-seeing/ Gardenvisit.com Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/new-ways-of-seeing/#comment-1011 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:49:12 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2347#comment-1011 True. It is really difficult to make the distinction between ‘art’ and ‘good art’. And to know what is merely interesting or curious, and what is truly worth preserving.

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/new-ways-of-seeing/#comment-1010 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:19:38 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2347#comment-1010 I like seeing, and making, environmental art and particularly admire Andy Goldsworthy’s approach because it is environmental in three senses (1) it is located in the environment (2) the materials are drawn from the environment (3)it is sustainable and ephemeral. Your example has these virtues (though it uses paint)
I am not at all so keen on local councils, and others, commissioning permanent ‘dollops’ which clutter up the environment. One has to remember the great phrase about the typical work of public art being a ‘turd in a plaza’.

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