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I am outraged and disgusted with the current state of art. I saw a chimpanzee smear some paint over a canvas.? |
Then, this painting was brought to some snooty art gallery (what they are so snooty about, the world may never know, since all they sell is garbage to a modern public that has very questionable taste). The gallery owner was asked about it and how much it could be worth. She said it looked like a Pollack and could be worth $500,000. She went on to praise the way pictures' "painterly brush strokes" were beautifully executed, and such. Within 3 minutes, she had taken on the smug air of a typical gallery dealer, as if she had a deeper understanding of this painting than most people. When she was finally told it was done by a chimpanzee she felt like an ***, and tried to look as dignified as possible. There is something fundamentally wrong with a society that rewards "artists" that create meaningless crap that requires no skill, and arrogantly shuns skilled painters of realism that have studied painting, drawing and anatomy for years. Someone did the same thing with elephants. http://www.elephantart.com/catalog/thail... http://www.elephantartgallery.com/... ...what a joke... i know. It's kind of interesting to think that an elephant painted a canvas... but that painting being appraised for thousands of dollars... makes you question mainstream art markets... There is sell-out art like there is sell-out music. I think of it as a main stream thing. Some artists are creating for money and not for any other reasons. They are not trying to transmit any kind of message... they want money...and so do their art dealers. So they go about their art brainlessly....and brainless people buy that work. Not all art today is like that though. Personally... I appreciate art that is filled with idea. It does not necessarily have to be realistic..but if it is filled with a story or an idea it is successful. Think of these artists that are current. Their work is technically well executed and filled with idea. kiki smith Philip Harris Jenny Saville andy goldworthy Robert Smithson Lucian Freud Eric Fischl Annette Lemierux Gerhard Richter Chuck Close Leon Golub Alice Neel leroy neiman Philip Pearlstein Janet Fish gregory gillespie william beckman Ralph Goings Charles Bell Source(s): art student everyone loves monkeys! so who wouldn't love monkey art! yeah modern art is dumb ****. I took an art class in colege, and while looking through an art book i saw a peice of "art" that was just a blank canvas nailed to some dry wall. it sold for 5000 bucks. I am in despair. I am a fairly competent I have work in galleries in England and USA . Nothing is selling . I sent 6 pictures to a mixed show in England . My work was written up in the local paper and one of mine was used for the invitation card .. that one sold but the five others have not . I will not cover the cost of transport, frames and the materials . What am I doing this for ??? I either chuck the pictures or pay for them to be sent back and loose more money . When I see Banksie and the like making a fortune and copies of Andy Warhol selling like hot cakes I realise I am not doing what YOU the public really wants. www.janedunn.co.uk Please HELP and tell me what to do !!!! There is art, then there is imposture. Alas the second category is much praised by snobs who could not tell a Remband from a Picasso! Hence those sell well ; contrarily, real art only sells (long) after the artist's dead. As a painter myself, I prefer never to sell anything than do "abstract" paintings (reserved, except in rare cases, to those who cannot even draw) or garbage like the one you describe. And for me a Pollock for example is everything but an artist! Just for the fun, let me tell you that I have seen (on TV) a painting made by hitting golf balls coated with pigments on a frame. The golfers were Nicklauses, and it was an add for the world senior tour, the legend saying "Those people are good" I am a art student and I couldn't agree more. Contemporary art makes me sick, stupid crap selling for thousands of dollars and my teachers have all tried to push me away from the great masters because they feel photography killed realism and the human anatomy is dead..but keep studying my friend the world will return to a neo-classicism and all this cubic abstract crap will be gone. I totaly agree with you |
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