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so cute you could die
Zany,the often obscure cult of cute with its cutting edge cookie cutter style of homogenized aesthetic quality as mass commodity. An aggressive antidote to the beautiful or the sublime, but rather irritating and shallow often in the realm of the … Continue reading
the burden
by Art Chantry: chris burden embodies everything i love and hate about the fine art world. his work is sensational and violent and ‘destructo ‘- total BOY stuff. i love it to death. but, it’s also completely and utterly shallow … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged art chantry, Banksy and Chris Burden, Chris Burden, Chris Burden Shoot, Damien Hirst, Henry Gallery University of Washington, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul mccarthy art, Richard Prince, robert venturi
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swift kick in the keegster
Psst! Pass the bum wipe. Perversion seems intrinsic to modern art, at least at the split off side that gazes into the bowl of disavowal. And this has been so from the beginning; the long arc extending back to an … Continue reading
advertising is pop culture
Are we all part of the Society of the Spectacle, embedded and enmeshed in a vague relationship with internal and external reality all mediated by images, a series of disruptions with no coherent pattern giving us the impression of being … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Andy Warhol, Guy Debord, James Rosenquist, Jeff Koons, Jonathan McIntosh, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul mccarthy art, rebellious pixels, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Yves Klein
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art as locusts: hunters and gatherers
Way back when, the French Salon had commodified painting as merchandise and the Salon itself became a gigantic salesroom, for at best inconsequential work of men sometimes technically gifted who understood the manipulation of trite, generic formula mixed with an … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, burne-jones, burne-jones the golden stairs, Damien Hirst, For Heaven's Sake Damien Hirst, Jehan Georges Vibert, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, paul mccarthy art
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hold your nose: flushing into a non-existant past
Excerpts from a brilliant article exposing the underside of what Adorno called the “cultural industries” and what Kuspit refers to as art as part of the industrial entertainment complex so drowned and subsumed by money values there is strictly form … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged ben vautier, Bertrand Russell, christopher caudwell, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, gilbert and george, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mike Kelley, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy art, Piero Manzoni, Theodor Adorno
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if our memory serves us well
The social delinquent and adolescent rebel as artistic archetype. As long as one keeps rebelling, raging, one guarantees they can never change and grow old. Grow into maturity. It became one of the pathologies of the romantic movement, to die … Continue reading
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