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2007-06-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-20 14:48|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 artist of great complexity

Meaning: self-indulgent, hedonistic, contributing nothing whatsoever POC, no one will miss him and in few years, he'll be forgotten as he never existed.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-20 14:59|| 2007-06-20 14:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Right on, 2x4.

A few years back, Derbyshire commented that most of the West has forgotten how to make great works of music and art, and that most of what passed for great art in the mid and late 20th century was noght but topical navel-staring and weirdness for its own sake, and would be forgotten or mocked by future societies (think Warhol's soup cans).

I daresay this guy fits that bill quite well...............

Where are the Rubens' or Rembrandts, or the Beethovens or Brahms, of our time? We've stopped making art that will be "classic".

Posted by no mo uro 2007-06-20 15:10|| 2007-06-20 15:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Photography killed the Rubens, Rembrants and other painters leaving artists to head in the other direction.

I'm not sure how any of this applies to Beethovens or Brahms as they were musicians and Beethoven was never the same after his visit to San Dimas mall.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-06-20 16:15|| 2007-06-20 16:15|| Front Page Top

#4 having ~~his~~ my nipples licked by a retinue of seven young filles de joie [prostitutes] seems like a very worthy art project to me.

now then,... humm.. where are those applications for Fine Art grants.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-06-20 16:25|| 2007-06-20 16:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Red Dawg, that would be worthy project, just that... art has nothing to do with it.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-20 16:31|| 2007-06-20 16:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Now iss da time on Sprockets ven ve dance!

Posted by tu3031 2007-06-20 16:45|| 2007-06-20 16:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Art is bunk.

With apologies to Henry Ford.

Posted by phil_b 2007-06-20 19:09|| 2007-06-20 19:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Just his nipples were licked? He didn't get his money's worth...
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Perplexed Borgboy

Posted by borgboy2001 2007-06-20 19:25|| 2007-06-20 19:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Mayhaps there was nothing else to lick, or not easily findable, or sumthing...

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-20 19:41|| 2007-06-20 19:41|| Front Page Top

#10 If only he'd been born in the USA, he coulda been Bill Clinton's vice president . . . accent on the "vice" part.

Posted by Mike 2007-06-20 20:34|| 2007-06-20 20:34|| Front Page Top

#11 "The smoking swastika indicates that the matter is far from closed, be it in Germany or the malicious terrorism emanating from the Middle East. Evil takes root and flourishes when art and freedom of expression are censored."

'Surprising' how this was missed...

Posted by Pappy 2007-06-20 21:40|| 2007-06-20 21:40|| Front Page Top

#12 good catch Pappy, we boot-intel amateurs were ~~flummoxed~~ distracted..

/"we"...lol!

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Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-06-20 21:57|| 2007-06-20 21:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Where are the Rubens' or Rembrandts, or the Beethovens or Brahms, of our time?

They still exist. Click on the link to see some works by the modern Spanish master Jose Royo.

http://www.kavanaughgallery.com/Royo.html

I particularly like this one:

http://www.kavanaughgallery.com/Royoeljarron.html

Art seems dead because a large portion of the consuming public has the esthetic discernment of a two year-old. One merely need consider how globally popular gangsta rap is to comprehend just how bad off things are.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-20 22:52|| 2007-06-20 22:52|| Front Page Top

#14 If you like good realist painting, there's some nice stuff here:

http://www.cordair.com/

Posted by Mike 2007-06-20 23:13|| 2007-06-20 23:13|| Front Page Top

#15 The latter is quite interesting, Zenster. It was only at the third look that I realized my eye first went to the flowers, then had to fight upstream to land at the face framed by the umbrella behind it. I've never noticed experiencing anything like that before.

Mike, if I ever have the money to indulge in art just for the kitchen, I'm going to find me some Alfredo Gomez fruit. His Plums is unexpectedly intense.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-20 23:53|| 2007-06-20 23:53|| Front Page Top

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