I don’t know if the physical arts are going to disappear; I belong to the bookbinding subreddit, and in the 3-4 months since I joined, it’s gone from 81k members to 86k world wide. The big thing seems to be reprinting and binding or rebinding fanfiction and fantasy fiction. They want a personalised physical book rather than a digitised version.
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do you do hand bookbinding, yourself? it is a very satisfying endeavor. there are many ways to bind a bunch of pages together between cover materials, so that it becomes a medium of expression almost as much as the contents.
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I think, hope and desire that there is an increasing appetite for the physical arts. It was particularly collage that I was considering at risk but not yet endangered.
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Yes, I’ve been a member of the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild for about 20 years now, I guess. I’ve taken a number of workshops with them including some basic structures, printmaking, fabric dying, making your own book cloth, and protective enclosures.
The bookbinding subreddit is full of newbies saying “Is this correct?” about various structures and my thinking is; if works, then it’s correct!
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There a lot, and I mean A LOT of youtube videos on collage, and people are making these “junk journals” which are a lot of random materials collaged into books, with printing and painting on them as well.
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Since my last post I have been looking a bit further
An example, there were many others.
Apparently concerns unfounded (although increase of digital).
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Here’s an idea; print out some of those digital images and use them in physical collages.
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I tried a digital one instead.
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Nice!
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Well, it definitely tells us that good quality canvas can be reused without issue.
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There was a Rubens exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario a few years ago. I have minimal talents, but I have found that I have a knack for spotting the “hand” of a really, really talented artist, and there was one painting in the exhibit (can’t remember which one), which looked really “off” to me, to the point that I said to my friend; “I … don’t think that’s Rubens; it’s not at all his style. The brush work isn’t the same, the texture and flow of everything is just not right”. It lacked genius.
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I am not sure I have that instinct. I look at the product of an artist, for example van Gogh, and can see huge differences in the application and choices, and some of his paintings are very un-van-Gogh-like, perhaps I am more like what I see than know what I like.
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This painting was really obvious when seen in context with other works by Rubens; I thought it looked really obviously by someone else.
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