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21yearsofdigging ago

I am an artist and have had shows all over the US Canada and Europe. This performance art, of which on occasion I have been involved, is usually kinda silly. There are famous performance artists who have shot themselves with a gun and literally taken shits on canvas or whatever. This baffles some of us in the art world as this form of pure exhibitionist BS, or self mutilation is shocking but nothing else. Yet, the institutions like MOMA endorse this. A friend of mine who is a great artist, calls it the Culture of Death. It is killing the beauty and rewarding dark and empty, self mutilating poseurs. Sadly, the university students in art programs are encouraged to eat this vomit. Excuse the pun but it is twisted. Art serves as a reference throughout history. Some argue that the true historians of any time period are the artists. And yes, artists have been and continue to be shocking and shake up what one considers art But at the same time, we are living in a dark period, devoid of beauty. Culture of Death.

Orange_Circle ago

Up vote for you, great observation!

ALDO_NOVA ago

good reason to cut federal funding through to the arts programs

LordHorror ago

There are famous performance artists who have shot themselves with a gun and literally taken shits on canvas or whatever.

Sources?

21yearsofdigging ago

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/danger-artist-chris-burden there is others, the shit thing a friend witnessed in Montreal Canada. Others saw it

LordHorror ago

Well, Chris Burden didn't shoot himself, and he was expecting the shot in question to just graze his arm and not be a direct hit. But ok. Never heard of the other guy, probably some nobody.

Watcher_Down ago

Art = money laundering, why else the $$$ involved? http://mileswmathis.com/launder.pdf

Empire_of_the_mind ago

One doesn't become an artist by going to school. Those students have always been posers.

Mrs_Ogynist01 ago

Thank you! I've wondered what a real artists point of view would be. Perverts have hijacked the word art, and if you dare to speak out you would be labeled as a crazy, alt-right conservative.

8pinkstars ago

Perverts sickos child rapists have hijacked all we know, these people need to burn in hell

virtuous_pedophobe ago

It's also a vehicle for money laundering

salinaslayer ago

nobody actually cares about the art, what better art "object" is there to trade than performance art? some rando walks in and smears blood on the wall, gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the "performance", you don't even have to produce an object to be sold/resold and its value justified, ultimately there is no possibility for an audit because it's a one time event

YingYangMom ago

Omg, you're so right about this. It's become absolutely ABSURD. I have a daughter that's presently doing a BA in History of fine arts and Film Studies and we often discuss these things, and it is mad how much crap she's being fed. She knows all about Pizzagate because I update her on it regularly and she's aware of the indoctrination that's going on at Uni. She'll go along, but don't you worry about her, she's wide awake :)

JoJoVoat ago

I wished my millennials were... they both graduate this year with Masters Degrees so unfortunately they've had 12+6 xtra yrs of these lies to get ingrained in the brain.

Who is in charge of the education curriculum is what I want to know?

YingYangMom ago

Exactly. The educational system needs to be completely reformed. The faster the better.