An answer to a review of Picasso sculpture:

“This article is a small addition to the millions that inhabit that Artspeak Mountain of media adoration written by ecstatic Picassoholics.  If most of this over rated drivel called sculpture was exhibited in some obscure local museum rather than the Lourdes of Official Modern Art and signed R. Mutton rather than by His Holiness, it would eventually be relegated to the trash heap. I have by now read about fifty years of unchallenged praise for the mediocrity of Official Modern Art. It’s time for some opposition.”  Poly Ethylene

Dali

 “ The work of the supposedly villainous insincere Salvador Dali was the best counter example to both Picassoid and Greenbergian Modern Art. No recognized modern artist has a lower sincerity rating. Early on he said, “I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.” I suppose Dali would have been far more bearable for the critics had he just continued to paint “too well” and kept his big mouth shut. But Dali bucked every important trend with maximum continuous noise plus beautifully executed satirical paintings. His formula was to continually do and say precisely the opposite of what is morally expected of a great Modern Academic artist. ” --- Modern Art a Portrait of Mediocrity

Unlike Official Modern Artists, Dali had the expert skill and craftsmanship to carry out his original ideas. Some artists have ideas but lack technique; others have technique but lack ideas. Most Modern Artists artists have neither.

"In MAA, someone considered a lesser master is a rarity. Those considered great innovators are in a class of their own. There are no lesser masters who paint like Mondrian, Pollock, or Rothko. Similar works bearing another signature are ranked as essentially worthless. Matisse and Picasso imitators are considered art school graduate hacks. Here again, aesthetic and monetary values are a matter of believing a work is a signed original by a selected painter. Ironically, this adds to the proliferation of forgery. The easier it is to imitate an important artist the more likely his work will be forged."
. MODERN ART A PORTRAIT OF MEDIOCRITY (Kindle Locations 1020-1025). Poly Ethylene. Kindle Edition. 
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"Art is never finished only abandoned. "  Leonardo  

 I would say that most Modern Art was abandoned before it was ever started.

Ingres

Ingres: 'To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door [to the atelier], I would write: School of drawing, and I’m certain that I would create painters.' 

Dali on Cezanne

"Cezanne is the finest expression of this decadence. He was truly unable to imitate the masterpieces and all of his admired tech­nique is merely proof of his inability. His apples are made of cement. The paradox is that what is least admirable is most admired: nullity! What a symbol for a period! On the pretext of the academic being detestable, the worst in the class was made a hero! He opens the door to the ethics of shit! Newness at whatever cost‑and art becomes just a latrine! The logic of this search for newness leads to the glorification of total shit of which C6zanne is the high priest."

computer art

With computer power almost anyone with a little practice can easily produce mess-free, endlessly indistinguishable variations on much MAA, aping its simplicity and even its accident prone incompetence.

 Computers, especially to the surprise of Modern Art aesthetes, will reveal that there are no great numbers of artists with the skills of an Ingres or a Raphael. Artists from Norman Rockwell to Walt Disney will be no easier to imitate. Computers will serve to sharpen competition in creating singular unique images, especially since ordinary images can now be produced in ever greater profusion.

Computers are increasingly able to simulate many former tools and mediums. They allow the artist to make entirely new moves which in skilled hands can produce the finest artistic work. The artist will need many former skills along with new ones in order to use this new medium. Artists are now beginning to produce new artistic dimensions without resorting to revolutionary manifestos, excessive coffee-house conversation or overblown aesthetic theories.

It is bad luck to be superstitious

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” 
― Oscar Wilde

intro

The three written influence on my life outside the realm of science and technology, in shortest possible summery are, due to my favorite authors, Bertrand Russell, Giacomo Casanova, and 1984. 

My views on art start with the summarily statement, “no skill no art.” I believe that the majority of artwork hanging in the modern sections of museums, praised as masterpieces, is generally inferior work and that the majority of works by so-called masters of Modern Art are incompetent and easily imitated.