tom moody Facebook and Artists
Nice jpeg (I assume) of a painting by Mark Dagley from 1986, viewable on Bill Schwarz's page.
I clicked on the painting to find out more but it went to a Facebook login.
It sort of belatedly amazes me that "gallery artists" embraced Facebook, since from I'm told it has one of the worst image handling policies (no GIFs, everything converted to jpeg, images transferred to a server the artist doesn't control, no outside linking, etc.--please let me know if I'm wrong about any of this).
You would think artists would resist such an odious scheme of corporate coercion, but ironically it was Zuckerbook that "brought artists online" after so many resisted blogs in the early to mid-'00s.
Compared to say, a Word Press blog, it seems like about the worst place in the world to show work.
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Nice jpeg (I assume) of a painting by Mark Dagley from 1986, viewable on Bill Schwarz's page.
I clicked on the painting to find out more but it went to a Facebook login. It sort of belatedly amazes me that "gallery artists" embraced Facebook, since from I'm told it has one of the worst image handling policies (no GIFs, everything converted to jpeg, images transferred to a server the artist doesn't control, no outside linking, etc.--please let me know if I'm wrong about any of this). You would think artists would resist such an odious scheme of corporate coercion, but ironically it was Zuckerbook that "brought artists online" after so many resisted blogs in the early to mid-'00s. Compared to say, a Word Press blog, it seems like about the worst place in the world to show work.
- bill 9-30-2010 5:26 am