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[mdeli]

"It is rumored that a large rag on which Rembrant wiped his brushes
hung in Clement Greenberg's office. A carefull look at the map in
Vermeer's "The Artist's Studio" reveals a touch of Pollock. It is
obvious to any Modern academic that Vermeer had to add all that
detailed kitsch surrounding this map in order to get a decent price
out of his philistine patrons.

Canaletteo actualy wanted to paint his skys with black schmiery
clouds in order to anticipate Kline but was prevented by the Venetian
senate.

Leonardo never understood that the whole is greater than the sum of
its parts so he just wallowed in kitschy detail. Although he
anticipated "Picasso's "Mother and child" he never got any futher
toward honest modernism.

Strangley, that artistic criminal Bouguereau did a bit of AE in his
backgrounds and even his forground detail. Had he not wasted his
talents on the rest of the paintings he might even have been
considered honest.

And then there is the detail in Van Huysam's flowers etc.

None of these guys could really freely express themselves. Perhaps it
was because booze was expensive in those days and nobody spoke
Artspeak."
(Abstract Depressionism Appreciation Alliance)

...no skill no art

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[Paintstaines]

Och! Y'know, I heard something about this from these hackers I know who call
themselves the Lone Gunmen (or some such title). They said that it wasn't for
the lack of the amber liquid that caused these greats to tumble, but instead it
was a depreciation in the Dylitheum-C market. They have it on the highest
authority from 2 (or is it 3 now?) stalwart agents into mystery, that strange
things would begin to befall the global art scene once higher creative
functions began to die off after the Musean transmitter ran out of juice!

--an (un)concerned nonentity

BTW, I have it on highest authority from the folks at the Weekly World News,
that once the 'avant garde' is done with contrived piles of cinder blockage and
haphazardly-tossed garbage pails, that the sink of bad taste has a REAL
historical accomplishment all set up for us to gestate upon. (Be sure to bring
your purgative)