Viewed in the context of the episode, Sylvester is talking, specifically, about the “professionalization” and “commercialization” of art, and basically the hype machine of the art world: This clip went viral on Instagram, obviously speaking to the pressures that many artists feel with the rise of social media. The pressures are of a kind which are anti-creative. The kind of attention that they get now, the kind of atmosphere of excitement which attends today the creation of works of art, the way that everything is done too much in the public eye, it’s really too much. Here is a clip of the art critic David Sylvester in 1969 on the BBC show The Visual Scene (the “ Playing it Cool” episode) talking about the dangers of artists working too much in the public eye:īritish art critic David Sylvester (he could also be talking about kids) /9a376a2Pb2Īrtists must be allowed to go through bad periods! They must be allowed to do bad work! They must be allowed to get in a mess! They must be allowed to have dud experiments! They must also be allowed to have periods where they repeat themselves in a rather aimless, fruitless way before they can pick up and go on.
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