And I cannot stress this enough: bury their bones in an unmarked ditch.
Those are original Warhol boxes. Two Brillos, a Motts and a Campbells tomato soup. Multiple millions worth of original art, set on the floor by the front door.
Theres a regular customer whom i do plumbing work for, for the last 3 or 4 years. These belong to her. She also has Cherub Riding a Stag, and a couple other Warhols that i cannot identify, along with other originals by other artists that i also cannot identify. I have to go back to her house this coming Monday, i might get photos of the rest of her art, just so i can figure out what it is.
Even though i dont have an artistic bone in my entire body, i can appreciate art. I have negative feelings on private art like this that im too dumb to elucidate on.
eat the fucking rich. they are good for nothing.
Warhol’s fed-subsidized works are bleak-yet-pretentious trash that have had a negative impact on the art world ever since and I’m tired of pretending otherwise.
In academia, just saying that out loud is likely to make the tenure-track art teachers lose their shit. So much for “subversion” when Warhol’s old cynical money printers have been the norm for decades.
Post modernism wad funded by feds but that doesn’t make it wrong or bad it just made it a less dangerous outlet for left leaning people during the time. Warhol was a crap person but his art was essential in mainstreaming ideas about art. He was like a Wes Anderson level guy so you get what you get. I’m not like…a fan but also have to admit he’s a huge inspiration to my own artwork through others. Like post modernism in general I’ve got a weird relationship that I’m working on adequately explaining but that’s like, a whole project.
My problem is that even the vestiges of the subversive/rebellious roots of it are the establishment now. They’re the big money in the art world and have been for generations. The tenured professors of art are almost universally on board and in agreement about the seemingly inexhaustible (yet exhausting) novelty of Warhol’s work roughly a half century ago.
I do agree with that but well, it was half a century ago and I can for sure say as a long time diy punk guy the style with being fast and ready with the screnprints and stencils and being easy to adopt by people without traditional artistic skill by doing mixed media of collafes stencils, screenprints etc ofnpre existing images to create a new context is very downline from Warhol and has been pretty big in genuine subversive art
Exactly my point. Warhol’s “subversions” are so entrenched and established now that it seems absurd to me that they get to keep wearing the “subversion” tag while also commanding the status quo and the gold standard of what is considered to be art for much of the contemporary establishment.
From what I read about Warhol as a person, I suspect he’d be downright condescending to you if you showed him your work. The good things he did for you weren’t for those that came after him and were less than accidents; I think he’d have outright contempt for anything like a working class art movement unless he could directly make a buck off of it.
I don’t like the guy. Let me be clear there. I like the effect he had. Net gain.
I halfway agree with you but I can’t be sure if it’s a net gain considering the entire point of Warhol getting subsidized by the feds was to culturally derail Soviet-inspired art and cultural movements among college age kids in the west. I don’t know what might have come of that without the reactionary culture jamming; maybe not much at all, but who knows?
I don’t think they needed much help. My pro with post modernism is holy fuck does it describe the current condition but the con and it’s a big one is thst it ignores changing it. Post modern problems require modern solutions so to speak, by which I mean Marxism. So art coming from the imperial core is going to reflect the condition of the imperial core, Soviet realism wasn’t gonna evolve in America in the 60s anyway, I wanna place an honestly held opinion here and don’t wanna get removed for sectarianism so mods, this reflects my suspicions and not necessarily the opinions of GalaxyBrain or theye affiliates but the CIA’s goal in all this culture jamming regarding post modernism and Orwell etc was to push the American left towards anarchism. I can’t expand on thst without getting into trouble which makes this conversation maybe a bit tougher, but I’ll say.that post modernism isn’t wrong, it just really accurately describes this hellscspe and offers nothing Marxism doesn’t while sometimes pretending to be better.
Also Soviet art at the time did kinda suck.
There’s an old saying about irony being the song of a bird that’s come to love its cage.
Ideologically, I feel similarly about postmodernism’s core messaging. I’m not sermonizing against either as a concept on its own as much as saying they really do effectively cage people ideologically when they become and end as well as a means. “Everything is ambigious and vague, interpretation can not be decisively pinned down, therefore knowledge and ignorance are one and the same, dae to each their own” seems like a contraceptive against revolutionary momentum to me.
And also he did do art for the Velvet Undeground. Yknow, squatting junkies.
Starbucks provided venues for beat poetry groups, especially early on. Also unsure about whether the Starbucks empire was a net gain there.
More directly to the point, Wal-Mart has had a long tradition of letting people park and sleep in their parking lots. Squatters of a similar feather.
These are both absurd comparisons and you should know it.
I picked some glaringly distinct ones on purpose, showing the outer margins of bad movements nonetheless providing some benefit in a “trickle down” fashion in their wake.
conservatism is the new punk rock imho.
Me being told over and over again how wholesomely working class and glass roots and punk an art movement was while also calling me a tasteless unwashed consumer drone because I don’t endlessly praise the subversive value of a roughly 50 year old picture of a can of soup is definitely me experiencing an unintentional act of performance art in this thread.
Marx, Paine, Christ, the writings are old, older than fifty years. are they not radical, not subversive? what does fifty years mean? Cervantes did metafiction 500 years ago. tragedy is dead, representational art is dead, plato is dead, they’ve been dead as long as any one can remember, and the modern condition extends generations.
if a disposition towards socialism is a disposition to ameliorate unjust hierarchy and order, then a concomitant and helpful social practice would be one which illuminates how the social order, which comes to us ready made and carved at the joints, and speaks to its own essentialism, is actually unset and contingent. (such works or practices might do so, even just locally, by calling into question and blurring the borders of their own existence/categorization.)
but who cares. a work of art cannot simply be reduced to a series of propositions; an essay or dozens of posts do not encompass an ecstatic truth. if one can’t see the playfulness or wryness, if one isn’t touched with reflection or curiosity, in watching a dude get sucked off and watching a chick eat a hamburger, or seeing the mass products of mid century, re-oriented and re-produced in mass, re-commodified, finding an aesthetic form in mass production, reducing art (democratizing art?) as products of a factory, then there is simply something wrong with either warhol or the viewer.
Clearly quite a few in this thread do.
Yeah not arguing there, except to ask why the singular absolutist “you are a barbarian if you don’t give continual respect and reverence to Andy Warhol” take that I’ve been replying to?
Crediting all art that followed after Andy Warhol to Andy Warhol with the implication that he had some unique and profound contribution is serious Great Man Theory nonsense, especially because when extrapolated on widely enough, pretty much every person that ever lived contributed something to the present moment whether or not they got rich or famous from it or not. Claims about how all of it would be drastically different without that one rich asshole, that so much art and culture simply would not exist at all in any comparable or similar or even recognizable form even if absolutely nothing else was changed except the absence of Andy Warhol, don’t sound leftist and all and are an unprovable hypothesis in favor of belief in the Great Man’s unique and special presence.
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I had no idea how badly I needed to hear that.