A Sharkforum Feeding Frenzy Funnies special by Steve Hamann and Mark Staff Brandl.
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A Sharkforum Feeding Frenzy Funnies special by Steve Hamann and Mark Staff Brandl.
As Harold Bloom pointed out, Ralph Waldo Emerson claimed the authentic religion of the American was self-reliance.
Where is it in artists nowadays?
Josh Smith: does it look good, have any kind of real visual presence? Can he even paint? Is there any noticable rigor? As actual paintings devoid of art market hype are these things worth a shit? Of course not! But these trifles hardly matter, what matters, is SAATCHI BOUGHT ONE!
Continue reading Todays Aesthetic Criteria: But Saatchi Bought One!.
I’d like to introduce a new term for a recent trend in Consensus Correct painting: Feeble Painting.
Actually, I already have been using it for a short while in my Art History classes when describing one current tendency. While discussing this with the Shark, he volunteered to help me delineate it and present it to a wider audience. We debated the idea in depth and here is the elucidation.
Continue reading Introducing a New Art Historical Term: Feeble Painting.
This person has similar credentials to the last in many ways. Caro Niederer, a Swiss artist, wife (I think maybe now ex-wife) of David Weiss of the superstar Fischli and Weiss humorous Conceptual art team. (Their most famous, and most wonderful work, is the Rube-Goldberg-like film “Der Lauf der Dinge.”) Represented by THE premier and most well-funded Swiss gallery, Caro is highly career-success motivated and has had all the correct connections, due to her liaison, and knows how to use them. Unfortunately, she has spent almost no time or motivation on developing any technical ability or heart. A true study in “Alessandro-Allori-ism.”
Continue reading And Yet Another CC Genius.
Yes, also at this moment greatly pushed by the Consensus Clique. David Chieppo. A very young American living in Switzerland, hanging with the Right Crowd. It can't have anything to do with that or his boyfriend being an important curator can it? He has even been recently put in a museum show with Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman and Joseph Beuys. Good that the first and the last are dead, I suppose. Maybe True Consensus Correct "talent" has little to do with painting ability.
Continue reading Yet Another Consensus Genius..
It would be interesting to note whether or not Doig is aware of Uttech -who has been working in this manner since...probably before Doig was even born. It looks like.....nothing borrowed, nothing gained time......IN SPADES!
Presented without words. Getting better than Kilimnik, but ...
Peter Doig is a Scottish painter living in Trinidad. He's one of Europe's most expensive living painters.
Continue reading Another Consensus Genius..
View image largerAnd the week is launched with a Feeding Frenzy Funny by Steve Hamann with MSB and some input by the Shark. Enjoy. MUCH more is to come!
Cartoon: Dictatorship of The Consensoriat by Mark Staff Brandl
Memo to Betsy Baker -editor, Art In America: Beyond Kilimnik: How Will The MCA, or ART IN AMERICA Top Itself? The Shark Offers Up One Possibility, A Kinkade, Kilimnik Smackdown! by The Shark
Self-Reliance, A Thought by Mark Staff Brandl
Todays Aesthetic Criteria: But Saatchi Bought One! by The Shark
Introducing a New Art Historical Term: Feeble Painting by Mark Staff Brandl
And Yet Another CC Genius by Mark Staff Brandl
Yet Another Consensus Genius. by Mark Staff Brandl
Why Does That 11 Million Dollar Doig Look Like Nothing So Much as a Poor Ma.. errrrh- I Mean 'Rich Man's Version of Wisconsin Master Painter Tom Uttech? (20k, Maybe 30k) by The Shark
Another Consensus Genius. by Mark Staff Brandl
Shark Attack: Curatorial Malpractice Week by Mark Staff Brandl
A Short Guide to the Consensus Curator Career Ladder; or Why All Shows Look the Same by Mark Staff Brandl
U.S. military cemetery: "We are full" by Ray Pride
War as we saw it: RIP Yance T. Gray and Omar Mora by Ray Pride
Guest Editor Rob Miller: Two Years Later... by ed
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