while still whining a bit about the paperwork and waiting for the boxes to arrive and all?
Why one reads up on what a proper ahrteest would do in this situation:
Keep it (fairly) short.
Write enough so that you can get your ideas across, but keep it to one page or less. Nobody wants to read a multi-paged artist’s statement. That’s what manifestos are for. Conversely, you might think your one-sentence artist’s statement (“I paint landscapes that are pretty”) is funny and ironic, but you might also come across as a gi-normous smart-ass.
Ok that and the mention of the previously-found Crap Generator was worth the rummaging for info about artist’s statements, so I thank Deanna of Texas, blogger of Artist, Emerging.
