Summary
Lying as they do outside the self-referential definition of art as done by artists, these working sketches can be judged purely on their own terms. On those terms, they stand up remarkably well. Though few of us could name the subject of a [Francis Wells] ink drawing as 'the repair of the perimembranous-ventricular septal defect', its sheer graphic assurance convinces us that it's 'of' something, leaving Antony Gormley's inky abstractions looking aimless by comparison.
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Moments of Experience
At its annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in May, the Royal Society of British Artists held a debate on the motion 'This house believes that a found object cannot be a work of art'. The motion's obvious subtext was that since Duchamp's snow shovel the 'found object' has been digging away at the foundations of traditional hand-made art, with potentially ...
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