50 Replies to “Because It’s Shit”

  1. Yeah, I got an artist Brother who does similar work. Even had some of his art with the UN in Switzerland. Lots of sophisticates ooh and aah over it. To anyone they would call a simpleton, like me, it’s crap. Keeping the piece he gave me in case I find a fool with some money.

    1. I take it you didn’t see Waldo?
      Check again…flip the painting…
      He’s there somewhere…slit your eyes down…
      Head stand…you may see him then…

  3. You say tomato, I say tomato… 🙂
    Did it really matter which way it was hung (apparently not if no one noticed.)?

  7. The joke is on whichever fool paid any money for that thing or whomever considers it of value and particularly the poseurs that ooh and aah about it. The artist is an entrepreneur in the poseur pimping business.

  8. Looks like an lgbtqia+p jail cell. Needs to be rotated 90-degrees.

    1. I say 45 degrees. Or one could mount it slowly spinning and resell it for three times the price.

  9. I think shit has a right side up.
    At least my dog’s shit appears to when she leaves a good coil.
    So I’m saying the art is worse than shit.
    Or my dog’s best steamer is art.

  10. There are similar “masterpieces” in Ottawa’s National Gallery. Your description is most appropriate, Kate.

    1. Here I must defend “modern art”. Yes, most of it is shit but there are some notable exceptions and The Canadian National Gallery has a good collection of it, whatever you think of it. And besides, some of it is expensive shit.

      1. “Voice Of Fire” comes to mind.

        It isn’t expensive to the bureaucrats who spend our money to acquire it.

        If it really is all that valuable, they should sell it and put the money into general revenue. Yeah, I know, it would be a drop in the bucket, but (one hopes) the attitude shift would affect all government spending and save us a bundle.

        1. Beat me to it. I’ve seen it. It’s a very impressive stripe. It’s not 6 f*cking million dollars worth of stripe, but it’s an impressive stripe.

        2. https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/newmans-revenge-the-value-of-voice-of-fire-is-scorching-hot

          Apparently the Newman work, Voice of Fire may be worth 20X what they paid for it in 1990, $1.76 million.

          I don’t know art,but I know what I like and that excludes most impressionistic works of art.
          The Mona Lisa didn’t hang upside down ever, because even the churlish peasants who work at the Louvre know which way is up.
          This post brought me great joy,thanks Kate!

  11. “The thickening of the grid should be at the top, like a dark sky,” Meyer-BĂĽser said.”

    Oh for sure, I see what you mean. *eye roll*

    Tom Wolfe’s book The Painted Word where he slices and dices the modern art movement is a must read.

  13. “at the art collection of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia”

    Shit, I was hoping it was at the Canadian National Gallery. Can we start a whisper campaign that Breath of Fire is upside-down?

  14. In the stairwell of the Fine Arts building at U Leth there is a…statue, I guess. Coupla storeys tall. Name of it, “Moses”. The urban legend at the time was that when it was originally installed, it was positioned upside down, ’cause nobody knew any different. I don’t know if the story is true or not, but if you take a look at what is now the top of the statue, it looks like there may have been a mounting point there at one time.

    Was a Rez Rat & we used to go to the art gallery openings on occasion, mostly because they served beer earlier there than anywhere else on campus (this was prior to the SUB opening and the 6th level Main Hall restaurant getting licensed). Apparently the U has quite the collection. Some of what they had on display during those gallery openings looked, in a word, like shit.

  15. Warning: Scattered thoughts.

    Well, I dsagree it is shite, Kate. It is simple decoration, though. And the first of any new genre is always collectable, the imiatators are worthless. Excepting Braque, of course, because Picasso painted more like Braque than Braque.

    Now Picasso was one of the few “modern artists” who kept on developing, and was exceptional. Other great “modern” artists are Dali (of course) Mondrian and Renoir, pere e fils. Most artists stop developing when they find a “style”.

    Who remembers anything other than Hockney’s pools and who was Francis Bacon?

  17. A way to distinguish shit from paint. If the painting requires a written explanation, it is shit, it has failed at the most basic level of visual art.

  18. L – Why Beauty Matters – Sir Roger Scruton

    – Renowned British writer and philosopher Roger Scruton asserts that beauty is an important aspect of art and that 20th century contemporary art is losing its beauty. He believes that beauty is an objective truth rather than being in the eye of the beholder, a classic concept that has largely disappeared from today’s art marketplace.

    https://watchdocumentaries.com/why-beauty-matters/

  20. The best was a 60mins piece years back that had art ‘lovers’ oohing and ahhing over an abstract showing that was created by elephants.
    Priceless!
    Yeah this is a piece of crap.

  22. “The work does not bear Mondrian’s signature, possibly because he hadn’t deemed it finished. ”

    He probably didn’t deem it finished because he didn’t deem it a work at all. Mondrian doodled around with colored paper and tape before putting oil to canvas, like a conventional artist will make a series of sketches to work out an idea for a painting.

    Mondrian would probably be appalled that it is being displayed at all.

    I also note that being thicker at one end is simply what happens when you lay out a line of plastic tape by sticking it down at one end and then pulling out the length by pulling on the roll.

  29. The contrarian in me says that nobody should be able to tell if an abstract art piece is upside down or not, although I suppose the artist’s opinion would count. So really what we’re saying here is that no art expert noticed over the 75 years, assuming they had access to a photograph or rendering of the piece as intended.

    A similar problem is that I can’t tell whether some politicians and journalists are facing me or not, since what I am hearing could be coming from either side.

  30. I’m quite the fan of Mondrian … and clearly understand how the painting could have been hung upside down. Whoever displayed it, lacked adequate training in form and proportion. Having said that, what a GREAT commentary about modernism and dehumanizing art. Esp. when you consider that Mondrian and the entire De Stijl art movement which gave rise to Bauhaus design was loved by Adolph (an awful painter in his own right) . The mechanism of the movement was the medium.

    Back to Winslow Homer’s painting of the lone man in the field. It’s a perfect visual representation of the Isaiah 2:4 verse … And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more I’d say a scythe or a sickle would qualify

    We do appear at another turning point in history … wherein dehumanizing the planet seems to be accelerating. We are bound and determined to “play god” by changing sex at will (and medical/technological assistance). We are creating an un-reality that does not exist and therefore cannot persist. The people who are pushing such things as forced RNA restructuring … HATE God … and HATE reality. They are doing everything in their technological alchemy arsenal to mutate the human race. It is sick. And it WILL collapse. But not before another mass wave of weeping and gnashing of teeth I’m afraid. Sadly, I see the erasure of another 100 million souls in our near future if the wannabe demigods are allowed to run amok.

  31. Well this Mondrian, and many other modern art pieces, are more like nice decorations rather than good art.
    (There are some ugly decorations too in that same category.)
    But do not let us forget that most hoi polloi have zero clue what good art actually is.
    Someone said, and I agree, that good art has to have three characteristics: skillful, intelligent, and beautiful.
    This Mondrian might be intelligent (I cannot tell), and perhaps even skillful (I cannot tell that either), but it certainly is not beautiful.
    That being said, if you are lucky enough to spend time with those who know more about art than you do, and if you have a receptive mind, you will for sure learn to appreciate art you did not appreciate before.
    (Kind of like learning to appreciate baseball..)

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