RUBBISH wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 2:21 pm
Its one of those shit art things that makes the general public think art is all Bullshit.
Its not good...its sad and lame.
Also thinking this is more about who you know and a gallery owner than it is about actual art.
Quite right. And despite "Artists" pointing this out, from Dada, Duchamp's fountain, through to Warhol and Hirst.
xe2x80x9cI can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with itxe2x80x9d
- Hirst in Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, p.31.
Art, it seems consists in two groups, the first those using it as some political, social agenda, typically in Academic institutions and funded galleries / venues. Highly critical of the establishment / capitalism / the system. (which funds them)
The second, rich artists like Koons / Hirst selling via private galleries and auction houses to the mega rich who see expensive ART, be it rubbish or not as a status symbol. If you don't own a Hirst or Koons as a mere talking point you are passe. Even owing the artists shit.
And the funny thing is, in the main, the former group would love to be in the latter.