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December 20, 2005
A Lesson From the Art World
For centuries, Western Civilization took justifiable pride in its great works of art. Unfortunately, the realm of art has been overwhelmed by a mentality that combines pompousness, vanity, phoniness, and infantilism in such a way that it can only be called moonbattery. A crucial aspect of our culture has been left in the hands of the sort of people who write for the editorial page of the New York Times.
The results have been predictable. In place of Rembrandt's stirring masterpieces, we get Jackson Pollock drunkenly smearing paint all over the place.
If you've ever stared at some famous piece of modern art, attempting to find some hint of redeeming value, before finally giving up and muttering to yourself, "But a monkey could do this," you just might have been right. From The Australian:
The director of the State Art Museum of Moritzburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Katja Schneider, suggested the painting was by the Guggenheim Prize-winning artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay.
"It looks like an Ernst Wilhelm Nay. He was famous for using such blotches of colour," Dr Schneider confidently asserted.
The canvas was actually the work of Banghi, a 31-year-old female chimp at the local zoo.
If moonbats could reduce art to this state of affairs, imagine what they would do in the realm of politics. They might take America and turn it into France — or worse. We need to be very sure they don't get the chance.
Hat tip: Free Will
Posted by Van Helsing at December 20, 2005 4:49 PM
Comments
This post really is quite funny but behind it you make a very important and salient point!!
If pomo lib blowhards can so praise such idiocy as 'Art' it is no wonder that we see people like Cindy Sheehan, Mike Moore, Chris Matthews and thousands of other MSM and hollywood types spouting stuff that 50 years ago would have gotten you thrown in the Looney Bin!!
Such are the dangerous times we live in where Truth means nothing!!!
Posted by: Albertanator at December 20, 2005 6:19 PM
This gives me an idea.
I think I will buy a stretched canvas and smear it with cat vomit, dog shit, sheep snot and then shellac it to cut the smell.
Do you think Sothebys would put it up for sale?
Should I wear a beret and sip a latte when I speak to the agent?
Guess that's a yes!
Posted by: Doug at December 20, 2005 11:39 PM
You make good points. I, personally, am quite apreciative of some types of abstract art, though post-modernism (think mary covered in shit and dead sharks in formaldehyde) is where you find the moonbats. Art is a very subjective, well, subject, and a great deal of the merit of any particular piece is in the eye of the beholder. I'm sure we can all live with that.
What I find annoying is the tendency for certain media types to talk up the latest "in thing" - which is invariably just a rehash of some pomo twit's last bright idea with a new shade of pink - and in the process denigrate anything and everyone that disagrees with their view of this "thing" as the most amazing piece of poo on the planet. The so-called art establishment that these pomo "artists" are always supposed to be fighting is stuffed to the gills with arrogant lefties who resort to calling anything appreciated by the general public "populist", and anything that's actually understandable as art they dismiss as, to paraphrase someone I heard once, "junk for the proles". They live in their little bubble, not unlike those luvvies at the BBC or in Hollywood, acting as if they know everything and denigrating anything that doesn't fit theirt world view. I can't stand em. they force their iodeas of art on to us all, as if art is something that can be dictated by a clique.
Posted by: Archonix at December 21, 2005 12:22 PM
