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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Pappa » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:33 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Jackson Bollocks. 'nuff said.
I ♥ Abstract Expressionism, and European Modernism too. I like conceptual art when it's done well, though I think the majority of conceptual art is usually just wankery. Most modern art and Post-Modernist art does very little for me, but occasionally some gems grab me, either for conceptual or aesthetic reasons (or both). I find most traditional depictional art to be immensely boring.

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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Pappa » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:35 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote: Didn't we do a postmodern thread of writing some bollocks or other like this? :ask: As I recall it was terribly funny...
Yes... I think I might have started that thread. :ask:

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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:36 pm

Pappa wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote: Didn't we do a postmodern thread of writing some bollocks or other like this? :ask: As I recall it was terribly funny...
Yes... I think I might have started that thread. :ask:
You did. We demand you now plumb the depths and find it. :toetap:
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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:36 pm

Pappa wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Jackson Bollocks. 'nuff said.
I ♥ Abstract Expressionism, and European Modernism too. I like conceptual art when it's done well, though I think the majority of conceptual art is usually just wankery. Most modern art and Post-Modernist art does very little for me, but occasionally some gems grab me, either for conceptual or aesthetic reasons (or both). I find most traditional depictional art to be immensely boring.
You realize that if you're very lucky you will never see a Pollock as the artist did, right?
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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by klr » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:37 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Pappa wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote: Didn't we do a postmodern thread of writing some bollocks or other like this? :ask: As I recall it was terribly funny...
Yes... I think I might have started that thread. :ask:
You did. We demand you now plumb the depths and find it. :toetap:
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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Pappa » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:42 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Pappa wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote: Didn't we do a postmodern thread of writing some bollocks or other like this? :ask: As I recall it was terribly funny...
Yes... I think I might have started that thread. :ask:
You did. We demand you now plumb the depths and find it. :toetap:
http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4508

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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by klr » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:43 pm

Pappa wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:
Pappa wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote: Didn't we do a postmodern thread of writing some bollocks or other like this? :ask: As I recall it was terribly funny...
Yes... I think I might have started that thread. :ask:
You did. We demand you now plumb the depths and find it. :toetap:
http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4508
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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:22 am

Most modern (/postmodern - whatever they bollocking-well call themselves) artists are their own worst enemy's when it comes to how most people view what they do. In terms of their attitudes and how they present themselves they're far worse than the old art elite they originally set-up in opposition to.

A radical 'self-importance-ectomy' is what most modern artists, and their brown-nosing cultural hangers-on, require.
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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:31 am

Rum wrote:I know there are many people here who have something like disdain for modern art. Having gone to art college in the early 70s and therefore knowing some of the 'theory' I am not as dismissive, though I am dubious about much of it.

But when it comes to critics and commentators of modern art they should all be straggled by their own ball bag strings! I have just finished watching 'Art of Amemrica' written and presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon (the hyphenated name gives you a good idea about the wankerage level..).

I could quote at least fifty inconsistent, contradictory, illogical, opinionated, ill founded, empty headed, twattish things from his script. Also stupid and full of vanity. But here's just a few.

'Minimalist art was like a supermarket shelf. Stacks of commodities, but with no labels or content'.

He was 'riding above the gusts of modern America to find higher truths'.

'I love it when the paint is on the floor. It's a bit like the painter's blood'.

''This is America seeping puss'.

Fuck off you twat.

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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by JimC » Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:46 am

Read "The shock of the new" by Australia's own Robert Hughes, or watch the documentary...

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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Schneibster » Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:54 am

Deconstruct deconstructionism. It is the point of view of the losers. Remember the short, ugly, skinny, scared kid who always ratted everybody out? The chicken who made you really understand what chickenshit means?

He grew up to be a postmodernist art critic.
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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Tyrannical » Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:00 am

I need to go make some art in my Duchamp sit down model.
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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:44 pm

Critics thrive on negativity. That's why I never bother with them. The fact that we listen to them is the only reason they survive, and we listen to them because they tell us to. That loop needs to be broken. We need reviewers, not critics.
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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by Pappa » Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:25 pm

JimC wrote:Read "The shock of the new" by Australia's own Robert Hughes, or watch the documentary...

Fucking brilliant!
It is an excellent book. Reading that was one of the things that gave me a passion for Modernism.

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Re: Art critics must die!

Post by JacksSmirkingRevenge » Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:41 am

"Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic."
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