Glib, "Postmodern", New Wave Posturing
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Glib, "Postmodern", New Wave Posturing Posted on Jan 21 2007 at 4:45pm by This movie should make Republican Art-funders ecstatic. A portrait of a
genuinely untalented and anti-intellectual non-artist, blathering
uninteresting, untrue, and banal platitudes about how "Art" is created,
and what "Art" IS. All the while, we are treated to HIS "art": gluing
pictures of the Beverly Hillbillies and Ben Cartwright onto the Old
masters; painting giant cartoon pictures on canvases, that would be
better represented in finger-paint and grade-school tempera on butcher
paper by more talented preschoolers. And all the time condescendingly
lecturing the filmmaker and his art theater audience about "how a
painting must come together on the palette before it will ever come
together on the canvas"... and other pseudo-intellectual hogwash. The
painter himself is an unbelievable no-talent, and nobody should care
what his opinions are. He has no validity as an artist, and will make
the Republicans in Congress thrilled that they have a new artistic
fraud to trumpet, to replace "Piss Christ". The artist should certainly
never receive any subsequent art grants, and one hopes that the
filmmaker should be likewise ignored, ridiculed, and reviled. Just more
"postmodern", glib new wave posturing, by non-artists, who wish to
advertise their own lack of vision and lack of artistic talent. To be
ignored.
RE: Glib, "Postmodern", New Wave Posturing Posted on Jan 21 2007 at 5:48pm by Wow, are you sure you're a democrat? You seem to have an actual point of view--don't you know that taking an actual position is anathema to the 'democrat'? Afterall, taking an actual point of view means that some people may disagree with you! You obviously have not been keeping up with your DNC talking points. This is understandable given how endlessly contradictory and nonsensical they are. Although hysteria and misdirected anti-intellectual angst are very much in keeping with the DNC aesthetic. Have you ever really questioned and explored your political affiliation? I wonder if your knee jerk damnation of a political party on the basis of this one sorry documentary is actual or just your own limited way of managing your distaste? More power to you brother, may your disgust lead you in your exploration.
eurydice wrote:
(Jan 21 2007 @ 04:45pm)
This movie should make Republican Art-funders ecstatic. A portrait of a
genuinely untalented and anti-intellectual non-artist, blathering
uninteresting, untrue, and banal platitudes about how "Art" is created,
and what "Art" IS. All the while, we are treated to HIS "art": gluing
pictures of the Beverly Hillbillies and Ben Cartwright onto the Old
masters; painting giant cartoon pictures on canvases, that would be
better represented in finger-paint and grade-school tempera on butcher
paper by more talented preschoolers. And all the time condescendingly
lecturing the filmmaker and his art theater audience about "how a
painting must come together on the palette before it will ever come
together on the canvas"... and other pseudo-intellectual hogwash. The
painter himself is an unbelievable no-talent, and nobody should care
what his opinions are. He has no validity as an artist, and will make
the Republicans in Congress thrilled that they have a new artistic
fraud to trumpet, to replace "Piss Christ". The artist should certainly
never receive any subsequent art grants, and one hopes that the
filmmaker should be likewise ignored, ridiculed, and reviled. Just more
"postmodern", glib new wave posturing, by non-artists, who wish to
advertise their own lack of vision and lack of artistic talent. To be
ignored.