I was looking at some art on Etsy, and found this when I searched for "Encaustic Paintings," and sorted them high-priced to low. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it...
I'm 90% sure this is a joke, like those terrible singers who pop up on American Idol. I know art is subjective and bladdy-blah, but I think that we can all agree that this is terrible. If you look closely you'll see that there's some hair glued to the piece near the top, and I think there are pipe cleaners in the bottom left hand corner, sticking out like tentacles. Ugly, ugly tentacles.
Here's the description that accompanies the painting:
"The painting is a collaborative piece of mind and matter, emphasizing the power of direction in the focus of surrealism. Bright glitter specs to muted beeswax melted into many recycled trinkets depicted the chakras, reality, violence & rebirth. The art is completely eco-designed, painted on salvages (sic) wood, local bought beeswax, and a year's worth collected junk that became part of the art."
I'm not sure if this is some kind of Kaufman-esque prank, and I'm less sure if it would be worse for this to be real, or to accept that my faith in art is so beaten up that I see something like this and believe that it might be real.
If only that write-up -that fucked up, garbled, say-nothing write-up- didn't sound so much like so many actual, real-life Artist's Statements...
There's a lack of respect for the artist these days, and most of that comes from so-called artistes, who think that throwing paint at canvasses -not in that Jackson Pollock kind of way- makes you real. Art is hard. Art takes skill, talent and practice. There is bad art, contrary to popular belief. I can judge someone else's art, and so can you; and you should, if for no other reason than art is hard.
And by the by: This painting is listed at $24,000. It's got to be a joke.
Here's the description that accompanies the painting:
"The painting is a collaborative piece of mind and matter, emphasizing the power of direction in the focus of surrealism. Bright glitter specs to muted beeswax melted into many recycled trinkets depicted the chakras, reality, violence & rebirth. The art is completely eco-designed, painted on salvages (sic) wood, local bought beeswax, and a year's worth collected junk that became part of the art."
I'm not sure if this is some kind of Kaufman-esque prank, and I'm less sure if it would be worse for this to be real, or to accept that my faith in art is so beaten up that I see something like this and believe that it might be real.
If only that write-up -that fucked up, garbled, say-nothing write-up- didn't sound so much like so many actual, real-life Artist's Statements...
There's a lack of respect for the artist these days, and most of that comes from so-called artistes, who think that throwing paint at canvasses -not in that Jackson Pollock kind of way- makes you real. Art is hard. Art takes skill, talent and practice. There is bad art, contrary to popular belief. I can judge someone else's art, and so can you; and you should, if for no other reason than art is hard.
And by the by: This painting is listed at $24,000. It's got to be a joke.
1 comment:
that is one fugly piece of poo.
did you have a look at the "artist's" other items? you didn't provide a link. i'd like to see what this is all about... maybe its some kind of "statement" on expressionistic art.
i'm sort of intrigued, actually.
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