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the two things i majored in in college actually make CRINGE these days. psychology and art. BARF!
*rob*
Lech- actually, not quite. The modern art world is about making money, not art. On the other hand, just because we don’t think a piece of work is any good, yet thousands of others do, who’s to say we’re right? We may be art snobs, but it doesn’t necessarily make us right.
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The art world runs on bullshit.
i used to serve wine at a gallery. ugh. you are so spot on. what a bunch of pretentious dickheads.
*rob*
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“Isn’t Thomas Kindade just the visual equivalent of the average broadway musical? Just kind of shallow and feelgood and mentally two dimensional?”
Think Norman Rockwell dumbed down and without talent.
The art world runs on bullshit. If you can get a lot of people to believe the bullshit, whammo you have art. If not, it’s not art. It’s not like there are any objective criteria. Pablo Picasso got everyone to believe his stuff is great art, so it is. People who have “a great eye for emerging artists” just have a great eye for what kind of bullshit other people will eventually believe.
If 1,000 believe that 2+2=5, they are all wrong.
If 1,000 fart-sniffing idiots believe that a painting is great art – IT IS!!!
“Don’t be so quick to judge other people’s shallow little pleasures.”
It’s less the people who like the schlocky art than the guy who claims the schlocky art he makes isn’t schlocky.
Unless they’re pretentious about their amazing taste in schlocky art. Then, they get mocked as well.
I’m not a theatre or art expert, but I would equate Kinkade more to a “(fill in the blank) on Ice” show.
Starting off with a standard low mental impact pop base, it then distills it down further into a pretty, colorful batch of nothing.
I’m working with a flooring guy who goes by hajji, who does floors to support his music habit, and he’s doing an amazing job restoring my parquet floors. He doesn’t advertise at all, and I want to get his name out a bit, just out of gratitude for his awesome work. Is there a forum for this kind of thing on brownstoner? Does Angie’s list accept a posing like this? Any thoughts? His email is hajji17@yahoo.com