Comments on: Art sucks. Most artists should be drowned.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:26:00 +0000

That was a really interesting bit of history! I’ve seen the film Pollock and knew a small bit of that, but not the rest. Thanks for posting!

I’ve found since I posted this that my hatred of certain artists seems to abate the more I learn about the situation of individual artists… the book Art & Physics did a *great* deal to educate me on the meaning behind what dozens of famous artists created, and actually piqued my interest in Dali and made me a fan.

It’s not that I hate all artists — I am one, after all — but it’s just hard finding good ones whose work I can jive with on a purely aesthetic level. Despite understanding the meaning behind some art, it’s never been a factor in my appreciation of it. heh :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:32:00 +0000

I also agree about the comment on how photography in most museums todayis lacking. It has no meaning at all. I would also agree with you that artists who display an arrangement of as you call it, “splattered crap” on a canvas are truly misguided in terms of what true ART is. HOWEVER, you must understand the important history behind the origin of this “splaterring of crap”, first created most literally by Jackson Pollack. I would argue that in order to justify these scenes of disarray that Jackson painted, we must look back to the causes of the intriguing DADA-IST movement. Dada-ism, the origin of unreasonably chaotic art, was created in the minds of artists who while living in the truly extreme and bleak time of war nazism felt they could do nothing to express the total insanity of concentration camps and needless war upon neighboring countries (Poland, for example). In thier complete shock of Hitler’s programs (to dismantle humanity, as it was in the early stages of taking form in the process of democratic government), these artists felt thier total dismay could only be expressed by an annihilation of the “perfect picture” they once knew. And so these Dada-ists came to paint unreasonably abstract and discombobulating images that reflected the only true feeling these sensitive artists felt was true, that of displacement and “other, immoral-worldliness”.
Anyway these artists were “paint splattering” artists for a reason.
I do agree with you, but I feel it is important to remember the time when people felt thier world was upside down, and the only way to represent thier feelings in art, was to turn the art world upside down with them. northshoresands@hotmail.com

By: Brian Wanamaker

Brian Wanamaker — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:30:00 +0000

Golly, that was a great rant!

In other news, you seem to have very little luck with housing.