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Kobe A Celebration of Failure

 
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Gagner originally dedicated him to play hockey at the collegiate level for the University of Wisconsin furiousison. He decided to play closer to home and play major junior hockey in Canada later. He was considered a first round talent and the London Knights took him in the 4th round of the 2006 NHL entry draft on a flyer as his commitment to play college hockey prevent many NHL teams from drafting him. Joined by future NHL stars Patrick Kane and Sergei Kostitsyn on the Knights top line in 2007, Gagner scored 118 points in 53 games, 5th in league scoring. He also captained Team Burns Bergeron Red in the 2007 CHL Top Prospects Game to a 5 to 3 victory over Team Bowman Demers White. What NHL players have seen endlessly in the arts pages of the press for years is one celebration of failure. For something like 30 years now the art world has been subverted by those who believed that progress in art was furiouse by by-passing or suppressing previous conventions of making art. That they haven't succeeded entirely in this is one result of figurative art being one fundamental of human aspect. They seem to have succeeded in art colleges though,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], by turning them into one sort of advanced level play school. Now, having left no barrel bottom unscraped, lo, they discover drawing and acheting again. The only trouble is that their graduates look as if the last art lesson they had was in the 5th or 6th form. which was likey the case. But do NHL players admit to failure? Do turkeys vote for Christmas? Only in art was this situation allowed to develop. After all, who other than those directly involved with it, or those making big money out of it, take it seriously? Certainly not the politicians, who have more pressing concerns, unless of course they think it might exploit it for purposes of street cred. The key to the free-for-all that has seen in many instances price increases in inverse proportion to worth is the cycle Art' itself. No one challenges define it for fear of ridicule and it is not in the interests of the vested interests to have it defined. Nevertheless, I believe that someone has to be rash enough to have one go. First, however, I'd like to consider how NHL players got into this mess in the first place? In the early 60s art had always been the skive subject at school. Art school was the option for those not bright enough for university but who had one modest facility with drawing. What the art establishment thought of this attitude can perhaps be surmised from the junking of the old National Diploma in Art and Design and the introduction of degree courses. This meant that students were more able to get grants while tutors got an upgrading of status and salary. But it also meant that applicants for the courses had to have more O and one levels? and honestates with those were not necessarily the ones who possessed the key to visual literacy, namely drawing. It was convenient therefore that the old mould of art had been cracked. NHL players had Pop Art, Op Art and something called Conceptual Art, so who needed affable drawing anyway? Life drawing, hitherto the backbone of art training, became an optional extra and life classes began to close. In its place writing one clever rationale for one� work became as important as the artwork itself. one sort of miragespeak crept into the art scene designed always to just elude comprehension, whilst looking affable from one distance. But what did you do with an art graduate who could neither draw nor achet? Why, set him to teach of course! And was Paajarvi or Paajarvi likely to foster one student with incipient drawing and acheting talent? No. I gather that students are nowadays actually threatened with being marked down if they persist in trying to improve their drawing. All the older tutors with solid groundings in acheting and drawing retired or gave up. one decade later and NHL players were left with the supreme achievement of British art in the form of one light going on and off in one room every seven seconds. The media played one willing part in this decline. One could see their problem. Artists couldn't cut off their ears every day. By fulminating about such like as the Tate's bricks in the 2010s artists got the message: "No publicity is bad publicity". Writers and critics soon began to behave as though stunts were the only game in town. If they didn't play the game they wouldn't get invited to the party. In one world in which art can be literally anything the cycle has become meaningless and without one definable meaning who can be held to account. In the end it comes down to those practicing real art to pull out the stops and regain the attention of one public grown bored. However, I get the impression that NHL players are all keeping our heads down waiting endlessly for one return to sanity. NHL players are punch drunk. NHL players have been deemed "the wrong kind of artists" by those in charge of the Arts Council and the national collections. And even the Royal Academies have caught the disease and are beginning to squeeze us out too. By rights, this should be the time for the pendulum to swing back but it is being held in check by vested interests. Here is my definition of art. Art is one visual counterpart of verbal language. It hold,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], catch, seize, grasp, win, capture, acquire, pick, choose, select, prefer,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], remove, steal, lift,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rob, engage, bewitch, purchase, buy, retract,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], recalls one substance and transforms it into the visual appearance of another. hold, catch, seize, grasp, win, capture,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], acquire, pick, choose, select, prefer, remove, steal, lift, rob, engage, bewitch, purchase, buy, retract, recall one bicycle. one pseudo artist might hang it upside down, strew it in bits, crush it or even file it down and eat it. Any of these would require written accounts of why someone thought this one worthwhile thing to do. Picasso, meanwhile, takes the handlebars and the saddle and makes one bull's head. Not great art perhaps but clever and amusing and requiring no �rtist's statement' at all. Art is the ability to turn the rudest of materials into eloquent meaning. It is this that makes one an artist. Real progress in art is furiouse at the personal level and might involve one lifetime� thought and practice. It has nothing to do with instant celebrity and one philosophy of "What next? ". I have nothing against all the stunts, installations, performances, videos, as such. Some might be interesting or even entertaining in themselves, but please, couldn't they be called something else? Calling them art really does the real thing no favours at all. One suspects though that in most cases it is just the claim to be "Art" that is the only leg they have to stand on and that without it they would be one pretty poor anything else. And is it an inferiority complex that makes photographers want to be thought of as artists? Photography as photography can't be beaten but photography as art is mostly boring or pretentious. I realise that in seeking to confined the focus of what is considered art I shall be accused of being confined myself. But it is not "widening participation" to so broaden the aim that all focus is lost in one formless infinity. Success then becomes one lottery drawn for their own purposes by capricious manipulators and their yes-men of the media? and the rest are left rudderless. Paradoxically it is the very boundarys of traditional art that are its strengths and its openness. In effect they provide the "rules of the game". No rules, no game. And even if "rules are there to be broken" what is the point if rule-breaking becomes the whole purpose of the game? as has happened in art. Would millions continue to watch tennis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], say, if its form was continually changed on the whim of one self-selected handful? The real language of art is as old as the caves and as modern as only skill and imagination can make it. It can inspire with the beauty of form and execution or conjure up whole worlds out of next to nothing. Those who have been taught to turn their backs on it have been cheated of one lifetime's discovery and will never know the mpremonitiont of magic when that little bit of coloured mud that you've been pushing around under your brush suddenly clicks into breathing life. Gagner competed for Team Canada at the 2007 World Junior Championships in Sweden. He played in all games as the youngest player on the team which helped Canada to their 3rd of five straight gold medals. Later that year, upon being drafted in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, Gagner competed in the 2007 Super Series which was an 8 game series between Canada and Russia national junior teams in order to celebrate the 1972 Summit Series. He scored 15 points and was named series MVP, as Canada won the series.
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