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September 6, 2015
Art is mostly fraud perpetrated by narcissistic academic quacks on a public easily gulled.
If modern sculpture were placed in a junkyard, art critics couldn’t find it. Most of what we are told are great works are great works only because we are told that they are.
Consider the Mona Lisa, for mysterious reasons regarded an epochal detonation of artistry. Why? She is an excessively round woman who looks as if she is about to spit. We have to be told that she was an astonishment and marvel. Otherwise we would rate her a a pretty fair effort for an art student somewhere in Nebraska. A Treatise on the Nonexistence of Art: Pretty Nearly, Anyway | Fred On Everything
Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 6, 2015 1:40 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Right on, Fred.
Post Modern Art is a lie. A Big Lie.
Art Galleries have trade Sublime Beauty of Real Art for the Baseball-Card Trading of the Post Modern Pablum Factory.
Besides... roll the junk out, add a bit of impenetrable Psycho-babble ramblings and poof! Post Modern Art.
I think ANY Art critic should have the fresh eyes of a 7 year old child to help them clear the cob webs of illusion out of their eyes. Maybe this whole 'take your child to work' idea may actually be a good idea? ;)
www . youtube . com/watch?v=Cizlx6ODhuE#t=1m24s
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at September 6, 2015 2:50 PM
Fred has been in Mexico too long, smokin' that weed and eating the worms in the empty bottles.
Art is what it is, not what some critic pronounces it to be. If you like it buy it, if not don't.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at September 6, 2015 4:57 PM
We're not "a public easily gulled", we just trusted you... and you abused that trust.
Posted by: jack_gott at September 6, 2015 6:20 PM
"... we just trusted you... and you abused that trust."
The enemy behind the walls.
Posted by: John Condon at September 6, 2015 6:32 PM
Fred knows some things. He knows good writing, such as. Distinguishes it from great literature, no less.
I also agree with this line: "Art has nothing to do with what the thing looks like, and certainly nothing to do with beauty."
Leave Fred alone. Witha Xanax.
Posted by: Casey Klahn at September 6, 2015 9:03 PM
Nebraska? Gee, I didn't think that many artists lived there. What with the corn fields and county roads, I guess they draw pictures to break the monotony.
Posted by: chasmatic at September 6, 2015 11:05 PM
He just better not take no cheap shots at my velvet painting collection.
Posted by: BillH at September 7, 2015 7:02 AM
Bill, the big eyed turtles are OK but the Elvis has to go. Same with the teary eyed kids.
Fred's problem is he takes an axe to the subject where a scalpel would be a better instrument.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at September 7, 2015 7:09 AM
(ahem)
mr youse needn't be so spry
concernin questions arty
each has his tastes but as for i
i likes a certain party
gimme the he-man's solid bliss
for youse ideas i'll match youse
a pretty girl who naked is
is worth a million statues
― e.e. cummings
Posted by: Rob De Witt at September 7, 2015 7:38 AM
Not all art is garbage. No matter what the "arts community" may say, it isn't difficult to tell good from bad. Is it beautiful? Does it draw you in? Does it make you think? Does it make you wonder how the artist was able to conceive of it and then faithfully render it in his chosen medium? If yes, then it's good. On the other hand, is it ugly? Does it repulse you? Is your only thought when looking at it that you'd rather look at something else? Does it make you wonder how the "artist" was able to pull one over on the critics? If so, then it's bad. Gerard had that Brit series on here a while back that explained beauty. That was spot on.
Posted by: waltj at September 7, 2015 8:15 AM
Bill: Red Skelton's clowns are bringing hefty prices at Sotheby's.
Rob: well spoke.
"There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere." - From Red River
Posted by: chasmatic at September 7, 2015 2:18 PM
chas & vermont - I wouldn't know about clowns, Elvis, turtles and such. Everything in my collection came from the R&R towns of SE Asia in the '60s, and consists mostly of tigers, with a few nekkid babes and some bamboo themed works thrown in. It's the kind of stuff your wife makes you hang on a bedroom closet wall, or in the garage if you have one.
Posted by: BillH at September 8, 2015 7:37 AM