AN OVERREACTION

Le buste/Survit à la cité

Or so my good friend thought. Like Gautier, pauvre David Schoffman believes in art. After all these years he still desperately clings to the Romantic idea of Transcendence. 

But really David, if art actually held the path toward redemption, don't you think we'd all be redeemed by now?  Are there not somewhere between 50 and 100 thousand Bachelors of Fine Arts degrees awarded each year in North America alone?

Yes, perhaps the hard stone monuments may endure but probably not much else. Here in Paris the current exhibition season has been replete with video installations and performance art. I think our cities can outrun these flinty fads of post-modernism.

But you David, il ne faut pas exagérer, your reactions are way too extreme.  

Are you seriously devoting all your time and effort making small sketches of zoo animals!?

Untitled watercolor on paper, David Schoffman, 2013