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Amen Bill
Professionals like yourself are our esteemed mentors and inspiration and we so often soften the gratitude you so very well deserve for your presence in this forum and other sites on the web where you so freely share your wealth of knowledge to us all. One day I hope we can share the burden in educating the public and educational institutions to see through our eyes.
I am constantly awe struck by the amount of unknown masters that has come before us on sites like ARC. The wealth of knowledge and real artistic history that has been refused its place in historical accounts because our esteemed art critiques/art houses/sellers like Salons and places such as Christies etc continue to be allowed to manipulate the public with their unqualified consultations and courses in modern and leading edge investment art. I believe our earnest is certainly due more credence towards educating the public into real artistic skills and the push must come from the professionals with the students supporting in the shadows but increasingly growing in numbers. The lifetime of skills developed by our forefathers to produce their majestic artworks cannot be understood by a mere voice in one or two editorials or by winning a few prizes, the awareness must come from continual publicity and advertising with the tables turning only when the majority of art competitions actually cater for a traditional/classical section and our institutions actually teaching skillful art. Publicity can be manipulated to our advantage, if we speak frequently and loud enough.
I certainly will be doing my bit at every opportunity and am open to new ideas to help popularise skillful artworks. We certainly have more avenues, technologies and events than in anytime in our history to increase the reputation of skillful art. What's stopping us taking this advantage? Numbers? Voices?
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