Greedy and lazy.
As long as the money is good, those lazy bums will produce any kind of garbage and anoint it as “sophisticated”.
Thanks that was great. 🙂
‘consensual’ art = canned sh*t on big grants.
Well said by whoever that was. Modern art is a mindless circle jerk of poseurs.
Along similar lines Tom Wolfe wrote a book called The Painted Word. Well worth a read.
Modern conceptual art: An answer to “What happens when the government is taking too much money away from the people?”
Taking my visiting brother around the McKenzie Artist Gallery in Regina a few years ago, I was truly embarrassed. It may have changed since then, but the best art in the whole place was in the gift shop.
if art needs an explanation – it is not art. Good art doesn’t need a plaque, it is just to be admired.
It is no coincidence that bad, ugly modern art is loved and promoted, even celebrated by white liberals.
Anything weird, crazy, ugly or sick these days always comes from some liberal, usually a white liberal.
Liberals are highly dysfunctional people with serious psychological problems, yet they are in charge now, they are the crazies who managed to take control of the asylum.
Western Civilization may not survive this age of liberalism.
Time will tell.
Years ago I knew an “artist” who had no qualms about collecting welfare while not looking for a job. “That’s the price society has to pay for not supporting its artists”, he said. When in fact the truth was, they were not supporting HIM as his art was pretty poor. A lot of these people are self-delusional.
Many decades ago when the McKenzie Gallery was on College Avenue I stopped in for a look see. Hanging on the wall as art were two sheets of clear vinyl filled with straw and animal turds. This was supposed to be art? I turned around walked out and have never been back. Modern art does not deserve the title “art”. It is disgusting that so much of this crap is paid for by the tax payer.
I’m reminded of a line from the movie “Full Metal Jacket”. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman singles out one of the recruits (Private Pyle?) and tells him: “You’re so ugly, you could be a modern art masterpiece.”
Modern “art” has two purposes.
1. So people with no talent can make a living as artists
2. To siphon taxpayer dollars into the pockets of people who want to be artists but have no talent. It has to be government money because nobody, especially not the left who support this shyte, would spend their own money on it.
There was a case where a janitor in an Italian modern art museum threw out one of the exhibits because he though it was trash. You gotta love it!
Great piece! This guy nails it so well.
Well that’s just GREAT!!!
Just as I am peaking at my “craft”, along comes this guy, and dises my lifes work…
I demand compensation.
Whatever happened to the federal government’s CCA warehouse that was exposed in the 80’s by publicity from the purchase of the infamous,”Voice of Fire” million dollar work of “art” ?
I remember the building contained almost every piece of art produced by welfare artists through CCA grants, but when the CCA was challenged to try to redeem some of the cost by selling the works, the snotty reply was that some art can’t be valued by mere filthy money.
Phony con artists always manage to find a BS excuse.
lol !!!
no kidding. Ive seen it myself; whilst hanging around Brock University in ol’ St Catharines (a festering gangrenous bed of liberalism thanks to one Alan Earp), the management had the occasion to add a science lab. this naturally involved busting part of the existing exterior walls and additional modifications.
there was a TV set located inside a display case which started out in life as a work of art. for some time it had not been functioning. The unsophisticated construction workers tore the ‘work of art’ apart in the process of doing something constructive.
apologize were issued, hands were wrung and the hole was bricked up.
Turdeau replaced the portrait of the Queen at the Dept. of Foreign Affairs(Global Affairs) with a piece of modern art depicting a Native scene painted by a Quebecer. What could be clearer?
If the government was as responsible and efficient as say Walmart is, we would only need to pay about 10% income tax ( everyone, flat rate ) at most and maybe 3 – 4 % sales tax. Fuel at the pump would cost about half what it costs now etc etc
Here is an example,
a few years ago both quebec and the federal governement gave a total of $105,000 to “artist” Cesar Caez for him to build a giant banana that he would fly in the sky
not only is that pure insanity but he dissapeared with the money!!
that is one exmaple out of tens of thousands of the ways the goverment spends our hard earned tax dollars as if they had a forest of money trees ( which in a way they have )
Walmart would do a better job.
Hell! make me dictator of Canada and I will do a better job! haha!
“If the government was as responsible and efficient as say Walmart is…”
Yes, if only the government also:
– Denied its workers rest and meal breaks: bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-06-13/wal-mart-loses-appeal-of-187-million-verdict-in-worker-lawsuit
– Paid its workers in government vouchers: reuters.com/article/mexico-walmex-idUSN0546591320080905
– Forced employees to work unpaid overtime: nytimes.com/2002/12/20/us/us-jury-cites-unpaid-work-at-wal-mart.html
– Employed child sweatshop labour from developing countries: forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2013/06/07/former-bangladesh-sweatshop-worker-to-billionaire-walton-family-use-your-wal-mart-fortune-to-stop-worker-deaths/#5bf28a716738 Why else, exactly, did you think Walmart’s prices are so low?
I remember how excited I was for my FIRST trip to Mario Botta’s brand new SF MOMA building. I couldn’t wait to see his latest architectural creation. Up the grand interior staircase (bathed in filtered light from the uuuge iconic rotunda/skylight) I walked, excited to see what clever art would be so skillfully displayed. Then, I saw IT … at the top of the first landing, what appeared to be the unfortunate remnants left behind by the construction crew … a pile of DIRT on the floor. There were various bits of trash skillfully (I guess) scattered about the dirt pile. I stifled an open mouth roar of laughter for fear the gathered patrons would mock my artistic naivety. As I walked, it didn’t get any better, installation after installation of common trash ‘sculpted’ together or glued and decoupaged to canvas. Multiple video installations playing a series of filthy homeless street people, or awkward-looking 1950’s suburbanites intended to mock. I remember musing about just how many tens of $$ millions of dollars it took to build this edifice, only to fill it with utter garbage. And EVERY SINGLE display bore a placard dripping of societal guilt. I recall the dirt pile being described as “mans trashing of nature” or some such twaddle. Never a single positive description of our beautiful world, or beautiful culture, no, everything was dark and negative. My mind immediately flashed to the DeYoung museum, or Palace of Fine Arts displays whose collections of Dark Ages art bore mainly positive placards of mans heroism or heavenly beauty. And it struck me … that ART created when the world was SI-Iit and the average lifespan rarely extended 40 years was hopeful and positive, and now … When life is so easy, carefree, and long, the art is dark and negative. It’s actually quite amusing to my ‘outsider’ sensibilities, this thing we currently call ‘art’. It is mostly a prop for leftist diatribes of one type or another. I suppose it all comes down to the change in the benefactors (read: funding) of art. It used to be the ‘church’, the rich (ex. Medici’s), or contemporary’s of two world wars. Now it is ‘government’ (ex. Taxpayers) who funds the vast majority of this eye-offending trash. No wonder it is dark, negative, and leftist.
Conflating late Matisse with the sick acts of degenerate females is disgusting, Ms. McMillan.
Very interesting observations. I think you could be on to something.
Mrs minuteman is a jeweler. She has made “stuff” for shows. Shows usually have a theme and you have to write and artist statement to explain how your piece fits the theme. She, and I suspect most, artists go to their body of work, pull something out that they like then write a cock and bull story about it for the show, not believing a single thing that they say.
She once made a piece for a “call for entry” for a show that was deliberately over the top and deliberately mocking the whole process and it got accepted, and I am sure the jury did not realize they were being mocked.
Tony Hancock mocked the “modern” art movement in his movie “The Rebel”. The stuff that his character painted was deemed rubbish. The identical same pictures were made by an up-and-coming artist, and they were hailed as works of genius.
I recall reading, and to this day some forty years later, whether the article was satirical or an accurate comment. Anyway the thrust of the ariticle, pun inteneded, was essentially about Gertrude Stein and Picasso. Apparently the actual plane took place whe the two of them were “hooking up” in the today;s vernacular.
Stein was about to become Picasso’s Agent, she already recognize as a competent art purveyor. One of the “hooking up” pair declared Picasso should start to paint weird pictures and Stein would sell them as “modern art”. Apparently their new venture was a success leading to Picasso being to pay for expensive dinners and such by scribbling on napkins and signing such “modern art”.
If anyone recognizes such a story; sarcasm or accurate?
Great. Thanks for this. Occasionally one comes across something that is above the usual grumbling and irritations of our culture. Something that speaks to real truths about what is going on.
This video was one of those things.
I like Matisse.
Excellent piece. I saw the same kind of crap in the National Gallery in Ottawa. Their favourite descriptor for a tasteless piece from a talentless ‘artist’ was ‘juxtaposition’. When they couldn’t adequately describe the piece of crap for what it was – examples – a urinal, signed by the artist; a completely white canvas; a pile of leftover carpet underlay; a bungee cord running from one corner of a room, diagonally up to the opposite corner at the ceiling. But you get the idea.
And we paid for that crap. SO happy that he referenced the big blue circle in Calgary. Couldn’t agree more.
Great video!
“Art” such as the narrator describes, and we have seen it in Saskatoon’s Mendel Gallery, is indicative of an extremely sick society.
You only see a small portion of the national gallery crap collection. They had a program of paying “artists” to make thousands of pieces . The stuff in the back is too crappy to be seen
Channeling his inner Pat Condell.
Well done, and so true. When is he going to do one on CanLit?
I am an artist. I have had lots of training and am rather good. I enjoy creating and gifting my stuff to people who appear want it, no ambition at all to make money. Local Art Gallery has a members show. I quietly entered my 8 year granddaughters painting of a crooked butterfly covered in pink dripping streaks which she thought was pretty. It is pretty, if you are 8 years old. It was entered under her name and is hanging for the next month amidst actually beautiful paintings and a lot of pretentious ass hattery. The opening Fri. night was addressed by the president of Arts Council (who sticks bits of paper to canvas to great acclaim) regaled us with 15 minutes of jargon and nonsense. But the wine was good and the cheese platters were lovely.
You made me spit out my coffee when I read the phrase … “pretentious ass hattery” … hahaha ha I hope you don’t mind that I intend to use that one ! I have seen many ass haberdashers in my day. What is your ‘medium’ ? You could always turn your paint box upside-down on some scrap of cardboard and call it … “The upset of Global Warming”. … hell, you would be a WOMAN artist with an Eco-message … that’s gotta equal AT LEAST a $30k gov. Grant !
Greedy and lazy.
As long as the money is good, those lazy bums will produce any kind of garbage and anoint it as “sophisticated”.
Thanks that was great. 🙂
‘consensual’ art = canned sh*t on big grants.
Well said by whoever that was. Modern art is a mindless circle jerk of poseurs.
Along similar lines Tom Wolfe wrote a book called The Painted Word. Well worth a read.
Modern conceptual art: An answer to “What happens when the government is taking too much money away from the people?”
Taking my visiting brother around the McKenzie Artist Gallery in Regina a few years ago, I was truly embarrassed. It may have changed since then, but the best art in the whole place was in the gift shop.
if art needs an explanation – it is not art. Good art doesn’t need a plaque, it is just to be admired.
It is no coincidence that bad, ugly modern art is loved and promoted, even celebrated by white liberals.
Anything weird, crazy, ugly or sick these days always comes from some liberal, usually a white liberal.
Liberals are highly dysfunctional people with serious psychological problems, yet they are in charge now, they are the crazies who managed to take control of the asylum.
Western Civilization may not survive this age of liberalism.
Time will tell.
Years ago I knew an “artist” who had no qualms about collecting welfare while not looking for a job. “That’s the price society has to pay for not supporting its artists”, he said. When in fact the truth was, they were not supporting HIM as his art was pretty poor. A lot of these people are self-delusional.
Many decades ago when the McKenzie Gallery was on College Avenue I stopped in for a look see. Hanging on the wall as art were two sheets of clear vinyl filled with straw and animal turds. This was supposed to be art? I turned around walked out and have never been back. Modern art does not deserve the title “art”. It is disgusting that so much of this crap is paid for by the tax payer.
I’m reminded of a line from the movie “Full Metal Jacket”. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman singles out one of the recruits (Private Pyle?) and tells him: “You’re so ugly, you could be a modern art masterpiece.”
Modern “art” has two purposes.
1. So people with no talent can make a living as artists
2. To siphon taxpayer dollars into the pockets of people who want to be artists but have no talent. It has to be government money because nobody, especially not the left who support this shyte, would spend their own money on it.
There was a case where a janitor in an Italian modern art museum threw out one of the exhibits because he though it was trash. You gotta love it!
Great piece! This guy nails it so well.
Well that’s just GREAT!!!
Just as I am peaking at my “craft”, along comes this guy, and dises my lifes work…
I demand compensation.
Whatever happened to the federal government’s CCA warehouse that was exposed in the 80’s by publicity from the purchase of the infamous,”Voice of Fire” million dollar work of “art” ?
I remember the building contained almost every piece of art produced by welfare artists through CCA grants, but when the CCA was challenged to try to redeem some of the cost by selling the works, the snotty reply was that some art can’t be valued by mere filthy money.
Phony con artists always manage to find a BS excuse.
lol !!!
no kidding. Ive seen it myself; whilst hanging around Brock University in ol’ St Catharines (a festering gangrenous bed of liberalism thanks to one Alan Earp), the management had the occasion to add a science lab. this naturally involved busting part of the existing exterior walls and additional modifications.
there was a TV set located inside a display case which started out in life as a work of art. for some time it had not been functioning. The unsophisticated construction workers tore the ‘work of art’ apart in the process of doing something constructive.
apologize were issued, hands were wrung and the hole was bricked up.
Turdeau replaced the portrait of the Queen at the Dept. of Foreign Affairs(Global Affairs) with a piece of modern art depicting a Native scene painted by a Quebecer. What could be clearer?
If the government was as responsible and efficient as say Walmart is, we would only need to pay about 10% income tax ( everyone, flat rate ) at most and maybe 3 – 4 % sales tax. Fuel at the pump would cost about half what it costs now etc etc
Here is an example,
a few years ago both quebec and the federal governement gave a total of $105,000 to “artist” Cesar Caez for him to build a giant banana that he would fly in the sky
not only is that pure insanity but he dissapeared with the money!!
that is one exmaple out of tens of thousands of the ways the goverment spends our hard earned tax dollars as if they had a forest of money trees ( which in a way they have )
Walmart would do a better job.
Hell! make me dictator of Canada and I will do a better job! haha!
“If the government was as responsible and efficient as say Walmart is…”
Yes, if only the government also:
– Denied its workers rest and meal breaks: bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-06-13/wal-mart-loses-appeal-of-187-million-verdict-in-worker-lawsuit
– Paid its workers in government vouchers: reuters.com/article/mexico-walmex-idUSN0546591320080905
– Forced employees to work unpaid overtime: nytimes.com/2002/12/20/us/us-jury-cites-unpaid-work-at-wal-mart.html
– Employed child sweatshop labour from developing countries: forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2013/06/07/former-bangladesh-sweatshop-worker-to-billionaire-walton-family-use-your-wal-mart-fortune-to-stop-worker-deaths/#5bf28a716738
Why else, exactly, did you think Walmart’s prices are so low?
I remember how excited I was for my FIRST trip to Mario Botta’s brand new SF MOMA building. I couldn’t wait to see his latest architectural creation. Up the grand interior staircase (bathed in filtered light from the uuuge iconic rotunda/skylight) I walked, excited to see what clever art would be so skillfully displayed. Then, I saw IT … at the top of the first landing, what appeared to be the unfortunate remnants left behind by the construction crew … a pile of DIRT on the floor. There were various bits of trash skillfully (I guess) scattered about the dirt pile. I stifled an open mouth roar of laughter for fear the gathered patrons would mock my artistic naivety. As I walked, it didn’t get any better, installation after installation of common trash ‘sculpted’ together or glued and decoupaged to canvas. Multiple video installations playing a series of filthy homeless street people, or awkward-looking 1950’s suburbanites intended to mock. I remember musing about just how many tens of $$ millions of dollars it took to build this edifice, only to fill it with utter garbage. And EVERY SINGLE display bore a placard dripping of societal guilt. I recall the dirt pile being described as “mans trashing of nature” or some such twaddle. Never a single positive description of our beautiful world, or beautiful culture, no, everything was dark and negative. My mind immediately flashed to the DeYoung museum, or Palace of Fine Arts displays whose collections of Dark Ages art bore mainly positive placards of mans heroism or heavenly beauty. And it struck me … that ART created when the world was SI-Iit and the average lifespan rarely extended 40 years was hopeful and positive, and now … When life is so easy, carefree, and long, the art is dark and negative. It’s actually quite amusing to my ‘outsider’ sensibilities, this thing we currently call ‘art’. It is mostly a prop for leftist diatribes of one type or another. I suppose it all comes down to the change in the benefactors (read: funding) of art. It used to be the ‘church’, the rich (ex. Medici’s), or contemporary’s of two world wars. Now it is ‘government’ (ex. Taxpayers) who funds the vast majority of this eye-offending trash. No wonder it is dark, negative, and leftist.
Conflating late Matisse with the sick acts of degenerate females is disgusting, Ms. McMillan.
Very interesting observations. I think you could be on to something.
Mrs minuteman is a jeweler. She has made “stuff” for shows. Shows usually have a theme and you have to write and artist statement to explain how your piece fits the theme. She, and I suspect most, artists go to their body of work, pull something out that they like then write a cock and bull story about it for the show, not believing a single thing that they say.
She once made a piece for a “call for entry” for a show that was deliberately over the top and deliberately mocking the whole process and it got accepted, and I am sure the jury did not realize they were being mocked.
I know Art.
He is a friend of mine.
Tony Hancock mocked the “modern” art movement in his movie “The Rebel”. The stuff that his character painted was deemed rubbish. The identical same pictures were made by an up-and-coming artist, and they were hailed as works of genius.
I recall reading, and to this day some forty years later, whether the article was satirical or an accurate comment. Anyway the thrust of the ariticle, pun inteneded, was essentially about Gertrude Stein and Picasso. Apparently the actual plane took place whe the two of them were “hooking up” in the today;s vernacular.
Stein was about to become Picasso’s Agent, she already recognize as a competent art purveyor. One of the “hooking up” pair declared Picasso should start to paint weird pictures and Stein would sell them as “modern art”. Apparently their new venture was a success leading to Picasso being to pay for expensive dinners and such by scribbling on napkins and signing such “modern art”.
If anyone recognizes such a story; sarcasm or accurate?
Great. Thanks for this. Occasionally one comes across something that is above the usual grumbling and irritations of our culture. Something that speaks to real truths about what is going on.
This video was one of those things.
I like Matisse.
Excellent piece. I saw the same kind of crap in the National Gallery in Ottawa. Their favourite descriptor for a tasteless piece from a talentless ‘artist’ was ‘juxtaposition’. When they couldn’t adequately describe the piece of crap for what it was – examples – a urinal, signed by the artist; a completely white canvas; a pile of leftover carpet underlay; a bungee cord running from one corner of a room, diagonally up to the opposite corner at the ceiling. But you get the idea.
And we paid for that crap. SO happy that he referenced the big blue circle in Calgary. Couldn’t agree more.
Great video!
“Art” such as the narrator describes, and we have seen it in Saskatoon’s Mendel Gallery, is indicative of an extremely sick society.
You only see a small portion of the national gallery crap collection. They had a program of paying “artists” to make thousands of pieces . The stuff in the back is too crappy to be seen
Channeling his inner Pat Condell.
Well done, and so true. When is he going to do one on CanLit?
I am an artist. I have had lots of training and am rather good. I enjoy creating and gifting my stuff to people who appear want it, no ambition at all to make money. Local Art Gallery has a members show. I quietly entered my 8 year granddaughters painting of a crooked butterfly covered in pink dripping streaks which she thought was pretty. It is pretty, if you are 8 years old. It was entered under her name and is hanging for the next month amidst actually beautiful paintings and a lot of pretentious ass hattery. The opening Fri. night was addressed by the president of Arts Council (who sticks bits of paper to canvas to great acclaim) regaled us with 15 minutes of jargon and nonsense. But the wine was good and the cheese platters were lovely.
You made me spit out my coffee when I read the phrase … “pretentious ass hattery” … hahaha ha I hope you don’t mind that I intend to use that one ! I have seen many ass haberdashers in my day. What is your ‘medium’ ? You could always turn your paint box upside-down on some scrap of cardboard and call it … “The upset of Global Warming”. … hell, you would be a WOMAN artist with an Eco-message … that’s gotta equal AT LEAST a $30k gov. Grant !