August 11, 2008
Proof that modern "art" is crap
Willem Claeszoon Heda. "Breakfast with a Lobster" (17th century). Location: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Not crap.
My disdain for the junk that passes for "art" nowadays is rivaled only by my loathing for those morons who claim to understand and appreciate said "art."
And the only group more worthy of public ridicule than modern "art" aficionados are idjits with money -- also know as art collectors, willing to buy crap.
Johannes Vermeer. "Milkmaid" (1658-1660). Not crap.
You see, in The World According To Mike, anything that can be done by people of no particular talent (that's you and me, Bub!) is most definitely not art. Anyone can play an instrument badly, but it takes an artist to play a violin with enough skill to transport the listener. Any lesser primate can fling paint at a canvas and ride a tricycle around on the mess, but it takes a Rembrandt to make the viewer feel like he's been given a window into the past, a glimpse of life in 17th Century Holland, thanks to the marvelous interaction between the eye, mind and hand of the artist.
And then we have Paul McCarthy.
A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before landing again, the museum said Monday.
The art work, titled "Complex Shit", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.
The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Ah, I see. When you buy fake dog crap at a novelty store, it's just a gag gift. But when it's HUGE, then it's "Art."
Ladies and gentlemen, that's high culture, if you listen to our overeducated elites.
I'll take Rembrandt, Vermeer and Leonardo DaVinci, thank you very much.
Posted by Mike Lief at August 11, 2008 10:06 PM
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