Add to this list as you see fit.
http://www.lolamagazine.com/lola/topten9.html
1. Naming a painting "untitled" 2. Words like "vision" "depth" "inner meaning" "iconoclasic" "interactive"
3. F-ing wine and cheese at artist's receptions. God somebody please hire a real caterer.
4. Artist who sleep with their models
5. Explicit Homo-erotic art...any "sex" art for that matter
6. "found object art"
7. Abstaracts that look like a drunk monkey ran amuck with a paintbrush
8. Angst
9. Anything by the "Old Masters"
10. The Ungroomed Artist - dude, trimming your beard and picking up a comb do not make you any less "artistic"...I promise.
how can the old masters be cliche? they aren't exactly making art anymore. and saying that sleeping with your models is cliche is like saying that eating your food is cliche ;-)
Hey C., To your last comment: "Yeah baby!!!"...LOL. That's what the futon is for in the studio. Oh my God...I hope my ex doesn't see this posting.
And as far as cliches are concerned (not that my statement above doesn't qualify), I find it riding on the border of cliche and annoying to see painters walking about in paint-stained pants. There is the idea of being frugal...but c'mon...going to MOCA to look at Freud's beautiful paintings of ugly people(at times v/v). Now, that can qualify as pretentious cliche.
One doesn't have to announce to the world his/her vocation by suffering their appearance. In a museum, that's a distraction! (said in a nose upturned snobbery...LOL) Put on a clean pair of jeans and show a little respect for the art! Heck, I even sport a little bling-bling on my pinky, to show the level of my success...not necessarily their business what I do for a living; although, some of the docents recognize me by my feodora and waist-long braid. Now, there's a good acceptable cliche! (grin/wink/grin)
JAZ
gotta say i'm one of those walking around in paint/charcoal/pencil/clay-stained jeans. i get a lot of weird looks and jesus christ do they flush out the snobs. i think if people want to worry about your clothes, that's their problem. i wear what's comfortable and what's most logical...i know that at some point during the day i'm going to get paint or charcoal or clay or pencil all over me. why let the immediacy of an idea slip away cause you have to worry about ruining yet another article of clothing? save the new jeans for hitting the clubs or going to church...i don't think it's a pretension to "let" people know you are a painter. i yams what i yams, to quote popeye. it seems more of a pretension to worry about what people are thinking about you so much that they even influence the clothes you put on.
I have to admit, I used to do that when I was younger. I guess, I just grew out of it and began preferring neatness in appearance. Besides, I'm so over people asking me if I'm an artist because of the paint stains on my clothes. Nowadays, I don't even want them to know...LOL. Now, if I'm working in the studio and I have to go make a quick run to the store, I don't worry about changing out of studio jeans...the one that is so stained badly that it stands in the corner of the studio and threatens to work at my easel on its own...LOL
