tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275538457823708.post711926148030942620..comments2023-07-03T04:25:54.358-07:00Comments on Art Babel: The CIA and the Art ConspiracyNew York Cityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05807506312905707802noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275538457823708.post-79611313965122483592013-09-02T11:40:58.456-07:002013-09-02T11:40:58.456-07:00Your comments about the old boys' club are acc...Your comments about the old boys' club are accurate though I would say that you have missed the fact that the postmodern agenda is fully in control in today's academic system, and it is antagonistic to the Modern masters, particularly Picasso and friends. This postmodern clique is hostile to singular genius as it depends on cabals to perpetuate its "conspiracy of epigones." Postmodernism is no more than a shell game intended to dismiss or engulf the identity movements of the sixties and seventies. Put a few more doors on the museum and build it in the shape of a cash register, then foist the corporate hacks (and the art schools corporations, not benevolent institutions) off as artists. Painting is not dead, but too many of the humans who understand it are.Moira Cuehttp://www.thehollywoodsentinel.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275538457823708.post-65085909696666108192011-02-08T00:39:42.811-08:002011-02-08T00:39:42.811-08:00Kieran,
I completely agree with you. I must have ...Kieran,<br /><br />I completely agree with you. I must have overlooked Dali for some reason and The Diving Bell & the Butterfly was excellent.<br /><br />Though film is a different form of visual art, just as conceptual art is. Bruce Nauman is largely an installation artist and Joseph Beuys was a performance artist, yet there are also a lot of painters included here. A problem with lists like these is that when you lump them all together as "artists" people have a tendency to judge a painting according to the same criteria for judging conceptual art and vice-versa. We're really talking about apples and oranges. Sure they're all fruit, but we don't judge music to be "irrelevant" according to the criteria for sculpture do we?New York Cityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05807506312905707802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275538457823708.post-16930334649012345762011-02-07T20:32:35.959-08:002011-02-07T20:32:35.959-08:00"Notice that the first person you come to who..."Notice that the first person you come to who has any skill whatsoever is Van Gogh at #47."<br /><br />Ooh, I disagree. Dalí, at #36, may have been a bit mental, but you can't deny he had talent, if of a twisted sort.<br />Monet was pretty good too, again in his own way. <br /><br />I'd say too, that although Schnabel's painting seems pretty awful, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly was an incredible film, so he deserves some credit as a director at least. <br /><br />Overall, I can't help but share your sentiment. Keep up the great blog, I've recently found it and will keep coming back, promise!Kierannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275538457823708.post-56607726736735067082010-04-10T17:39:23.931-07:002010-04-10T17:39:23.931-07:00Want to really change the game? Then we change th...Want to really change the game? Then we change the playing field; and the rules. Only artists can do this. I am firmly convinced all the others take their cues from us in the first place. There is a logical path of least resistance that can accomplish this. Arguments such as 'beauty' and 'taste' will not regain all lost ground, never mind hold it. All they do is sustain more argument and feed profiteers bank accounts on both sides of the fence.MCGuilmethttp://www.mcguilmet.comnoreply@blogger.com