Monday, March 2, 2009

INSULTING ARTICLE FROM CHRISTOPHER ALLEN

If you read The Australian on Saturday specifically Review (Feb 28-March1 2009 pgs 18-19) I am sure you will have "noticed" the article by Christopher Allen where he slams Artexpress, art teaching in NSW and the BOS curriculum.

If you haven't seen it, here is the link.
The real question that Artexpress raises is how art should be taught in schools, why it should be taught, and what should be taught.

....a lot of the work in the show, as always, reveals the lack of any general vision of the place of art in a school education. The system seems to be trapped between a fetishisation of creativity and self-expression -- in the sense that they are encouraged in kindergarten or in asylums -- and an aping of the look of contemporary art. What is missing is the teaching of what can be taught.
Think maybe it is time we "spoke out" against this kind of media bias and obviously uninformed opinion!

Letters to the editor anyone???
KP

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