Seeking submissions for juried exhibition
Amanda Robin
Arkansas Pastel Society, "Catching the Light."
National Show for Soft or Oil Pastels.
Best of Show $1000, and more cash prizes.
Show dates: Oct.20-Nov. 20.
Maggie Price, Juror. Slides due by Aug 15.
Download prospectus at http://www.arkpastel.com, or email
A...@arkpastel.com, or SASE to Box 250783, Little Rock, AR 72225.
Mani Deli
certainly was talented, possessed intellect and produced more gas then
painting.
His early painted works are interesting and among the few abstract
works which express three dimensions. He is historically admired for
doing all the show-biz nonsense which is presently required for
fashionable success today long before the artworld got cluttered with
phonies repeating the same old crap.
His urinal, most later works and lots of his statements are really
just plain stupid. He was a Dadaist who outlived his time and he
admitted it. He did the right thing by taking rich old ladies for a
ride long before Warhol got the idea. I have nothing against
charlatans especially when they treat it with humor and make lots of
money
Unlike so many other Dadaist losers Duchamp stayed fashionable .
He remains a major role model for today's Modern Academics who attempt
little more then a repeat of his antiquated ideas while suffering a
nostalgia for a Dadaistic world that never was. They evoke the old
nonsense Dada aesthetics in Post Modernist babble which their
ignorance of art history leads them to imagine is utterly new.
Unlike Duchamp the Modern Academic Art never earned his right to
laziness and in most cases earns purely abstract non-objective money.
His ideas of how to fashionably shock people without the medium of
artistic skill are but a boring repetition of a stale joke.