Ah, now I see. It was the thoughtless verbing-where-nouning-would-do. I agree.
(btw, I almost used the word “thesaurusing” in my reply just to bug you, but didn’t)
Yeah, I was thinking of that old Why Cats Paint book.
I look after 2 yr olds, and they love to paint and draw. I don’t think there are any concepts behind what they do, but I’m also not sure it’s art. There is ‘non-conceptual thinking’, which is mainly processing sensory input; I think that is what my toddlers are doing.
I think it’s just them trying to follow what’s going on in their heads but in the loosest possible manner.
I suggest you replace it with Galambosianism and metaphysical solipsism, aka your money is meaningless, that will be $50,000.
I suppose some people do that a lot.
In* taking photos without conceptualizing things,
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The doing of so, is in itself a ‘concept’. I once experimented by setting up a camera focused on a TV with a long time delayed shutter release and left the room, so I had no control of what image it would record and then used that image in some way to make an artwork (I called them ‘risky-pictures’). There’s an element of Dada in there.
I was as far removed from the subject matter as I could be, - though in control of its construction - but, as I say, that was a concept, and there’s no way to avoid that
If you have studied Buddhism you will know, ‘mind first’; everything begins with mind.
This is the article that has to do with it.
I’m an artist. I wish someone would conceptualize and buy my shit.
But really, art for arts sake.
I learned that in Art college. And for Arts sake I have 2 storage sheds full of art.
And then of course there is art that is just stuff that wasn’t intended to be art, but which one guy called art because he wanted to fuck with the definition of “art”.