UngilUndy

UngilUndy t1_jedibqs wrote

What about the example I gave communicates the artist's intent though? It's not a verbatim take but I've seen a good chunk of art labelled with such weasel words. The term "spacialities" in particular really annoys me as it is as good as saying "the work takes place in a place". To quote another response I got, it's pseudo-academic blabber.

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UngilUndy t1_je9jn0b wrote

Depends on how the information is written. It is often composed more out of a sense of pretension than of any desire to communicate.

I much prefer historical context to some "the artist explores spacialities in composition and intertwines content with emptiness in a pattern-centric manner" gargle.

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