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Rothko babbles with paint.

The degradation of "art" - in every one of its forms - is one of the more blatant signs of the moral collapse that is occuring in the west. There is no effort at all to address the transcendant or even the somewhat pleasant and mildly uplifting. Instead we get vapid garbage or messages of hopelessness. I figure there must be people around who are still trying to communicate the awe, wonder and beauty inspired by God and His creation but if there are their work is being swamped in a sea of banal filth.

I produce artwork:carvings,sculptures. The stuff I create actually, you know, looks like something. It represents a reality rather than an abstraction. Most of the other artists I know consider me a good
"craftsman".

I produce artwork:carvings,sculptures. The stuff I create actually, you know, looks like something. It represents a reality rather than an abstraction. Most of the other artists I know consider me a good
"craftsman".

What is called "modern art" is a fraud perpetrated by the untalented upon the unknowing. My daughter at 7 months old could produce the same crap as Jackson Pollack. Andy Warhol? Please. A 5 year old with a Xerox and a box of crayons can do better....and without the smug, self-important assholeness that every worthless artist must assume.
But I suppose that modern art serves a purpose after a fashion. It allows the most untalented, unproductive, unemployable filth among society claim to have an avocation, if not a vocation.

My daughter at 7 months old could produce the same crap as Jackson Pollack.

She probably used the same technique -- fling crap and see what sticks.

Not unlike James Carville...

Actually, that painting was ahead of its time. It looks like a photo taken from lunar orbit.

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Uninspired chalk on black. Uninspired gray on black.

This is more inspiring

Actually, IMHO there are quite a lot of true artists left - except that the art establishment refuses to call them artists. They are usually called such things as illustrators, and generally produce book cover art and so on. Boris Vallejo (sp?) is one such.

There is also occasionally some good stuff produced by people who call themselves artists. The giant robotic spider that was wandering around Liverpool a few months ago is an example.

What one can certainly say, however, is that if it's won the Turner prize it's crap. Similarly with the Booker Prize for literature. Unfortunately, the Hugo award for SF is beginning to succumb to the same disease.

Fletcher, the division in the arts is how it's produced.

If it uses a mechanical device in the intermediary stages it's graphic art, period

If it uses a device at the end to print but is done by hand, that is fine art, period.

Most of the feckless mushwits today wish to make a "statement" because they're so FULL of themselves.

Instead create something for oneself.

Only in that does one release the vision of 'world' for others to see. If you have something to say it will show. If not, just more Elvis on black velvet for the trailer or that crap sold in Pier One to the SWELLS for their condo wall.

Peccable~B.F.A Visual Arts SUNY Purchase 1979