Abstract Expressionism and Kosher holy water
mdeli
common?
Most faithful believe what they are told and avoid anything that might
challenge their faith. Kosher foods and holy water in order to be seen
as genuine require that some holy wearing a funny hat mumbles a verbal
blessing over the stuff. If you ask the consumer what change he
believes took place, you will usually hear that the blessed stuff
gained some sort of spiritual superiority.
AE is the culmination of a half century march toward nothingness
blessed by critical Artspeak incantations of the high priests of
Modern Academic Art who don't usually wear funny hats. Most modern
Academic Abstraction doesn't evoke or suggest anything more than a
designer bed sheet. If you think opposite just take a Rothko and tell
us what it evokes or suggests anything more than very average floor
covering.
Only work able to attain a steady stream of holy critical blessings is
considered fit to remain in the holiest sections of museums. Should
these priests stop muttering their blessings the stuff becomes passé
and goes to the basement to join the rest of the avant-gone.
Here reside the stacks of paintings that have lost their holiness done
by artists whose names are practically forgotten, names which can
still be found in old art magazines if you take the trouble to look.
...no skill no art
Modern Academic Art is incompetence in search of an idea.
Tired of Modern Art? Check out my web page!
john cheall
tell it like it is
more more!
Frank
Forgive me if I am repeating anything here, I checked out your website
and read some although not all of it. Honestly I think you give
"modern art" much to much credit for the state of affairs of the
current art market. The artists and the art are not to blame, I like
looking at all the art you so eloquently and bitterly crap on. These
were serious artists working very hard at what they did. You may not
like it, which is fine, but don't demonize the artists because you
paint differently. The problem with the state of ART today is the
same problem as always..Artists have such fragile egos and desperatly
want to be taken seriously, so they latch onto what is considered
"serious". The reasons that "Modern Art" became "serious" are far
more complicated tan you present. I think it is a market driven
phenomonea....I believe a wealthy segment of the western world has
always needed a way to seperate themselves from the masses for their
own fragile egos, and one way is to have their own "art" that "you
just wouldn't understand". It's like an elite club, and you need to
know the secret handshake and the inner rules. Few want to join
because they don't get it. This is the artwork left to museums,
because museums are essentially an elitist institution, created and
maintained wealthy art patrons (read: club members). Consequently, a
lot of artists and art students are aspiring to the pinnacle..that is
to join the "serious art world club". And I don't think there is
anything inherently wrong with this...it's just one of many options
available to live your life as an artist, and markets to paint for.
Artists have always painted for the market...just look at the
paintings done anywhere in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries. The trick is to rise above it all....
mdeli
> I like
>looking at all the art you so eloquently and bitterly crap on.
Well at least it eloquent.
> These
>were serious artists working very hard at what they did. You may not
>like it, which is fine, but don't demonize the artists because you
>paint differently.
Working hard on something doesn't necessarily incur merit. I am
convinced that most modern academic art is a result of laziness.
> The problem with the state of ART today is the
>same problem as always..Artists have such fragile egos and desperatly
>want to be taken seriously, so they latch onto what is considered
>"serious".
The problem is an exhibition of massive incompetence and phoney
intellectual vanity.
>Artists have always painted for the market...just look at the
>paintings done anywhere in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth
>centuries. The trick is to rise above it all....
The only alternative is to give your work away free or be stuck with
your place full of your artwork.
RBrac53660
Boy that statement be eloquent
>Working hard on something doesn't necessarily incur merit.
Like your failed attempts at artwork and really bad critiques?
>The problem is an exhibition of massive incompetence and phoney
>intellectual vanity.
>
You must be looking in the mirror at this point.