The Ecole des Beaux-Arts, that Paris bastion of art academy, had an open house this weekend. Art school shows like these are far and away the best place to see how recent art's been digested. Strolling through the studios and looking over a lot of student work, there's a lot of regurgitation. One work nods to Gerhard Richter, a second smells of Marlene Dumas, a third stinks of Chuck Close, and so on through Neo Rauch and Peter Doig and Tatiana Trouvé and Damien Hirst.
Some of these similarities derive from a lack of creativity and some from a sheer youthful searching through the styles of established artists. All of us can learn as much from mediocre or bad art as we can from the best. The works of people who've been studying the field and taking it seriously for a couple of years offer a great opportunity for reckoning. So here it is: Sloppiness and abstraction are out. So is installation. Live art (like plants and ant farms) are in, especially when combined with man-made materials.
And beer is still in. Lots of it. We found empties all over the place. Some aspects of an art apprenticeship don't change.
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