Jack
I’m introducing myself today.
It seems like all my life I’ve wanted to be an artist and that Famous Artists School was always there just down the road. Now I am an artist and I work for FAS as a graphic designer on their various projects including the website and the project we are working on right now (mentioned below by Magdalen) which will be the re-publishing of of our Creative Art Course.
I am interested in discussing the whole nine yards about Art and especially “What is a Famous Artist today?” Back in the heyday of illustration, the people who put together the FAS courses had been made famous by their work in magazines and there was what I’ll call “The Big Boys,” like Picasso, Dali, and Andy Warhol. They were all known by the public in general for their work and for their lifestyles. But what I’m interested in finding out, what I’m looking for is—where is that energy in today’s Art World? Who and what is a famous Artist today? I know about Julian Schnabel and he is close—especially after “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”—but really only arty people know about him. (I’m afraid I don’t really “get” his art anyhow) So where is it? Will it come back? Famous Artists, where are you?
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