“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
Friday, October 16, 2015
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
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Monday, October 5, 2015
"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.
Special, You can download it for Free on Kindle for the week.
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Friday, October 2, 2015
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.'
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