Never understood modern art, until someone on Win (T_D I think it was) described how it could launder money. Pay an artist 30K to paint a stripe on a canvas, bribe an appraiser to give it a high value, donate or sell it to a museum as a tax write off, or gift it to a friend who sells it to get the money transfer....
... but best of all is imagining some poor museum curator trying to explain to a guests of tourists how that stripe on the canvas has some supreme meaning to it justifying the price tag....
This collection of arrogant poseurs has been responsible for many of the excesses and excresences we have had to suffer in contemporary art, from the inexorable rise of curators (point 2), such as Hirst and Koons, neither of whom can do their own work, but pay others to do it for them, to all that “self-consciously shallow, stylistically hybrid, ambiguous” drivel as stated in point 10.
If you have the stomach, take a look at the ‘festo below:
The art of the past is past. What was true of art yesterday is false today.
The Postmodern art of today is defined and determined, not by artists, but by a new generation of curators, philosophers and intellectuals ignorant of the past and able to ignore it.
#3. Postmodernism is a political undertaking, Marxist and Freudian.
Postmodernism is a new cultural condition.
Postmodernism is democratic and allied to popular culture.
Postmodernism denies the possibility of High Art.
Postmodernism deconstructs works of High Art to undermine them.
Postmodernism is subversive, seditiously resembling the precedents it mimics.
Postmodern art is pastiche, parody, irony, ironic conflict and paradox.
Postmodern art is self-consciously shallow, stylistically hybrid, ambiguous, provocative and endlessly repeatable.
Postmodern art is anti-elitist, but must protect its own elitism.
To the Postmodernist every work of art is a text, even if it employs no words and has no title, to be curatorially interpreted. Art cannot exist before it is interpreted.
Postmodernist interpretation depends on coining new words unknown and unknowable to the masses, on developing a critical jargon of impenetrable profundity, and on a quagmire of theory with which to reinforce endowed significance. Vive le Néologisme!
What utter contradictory gibberish. It claims to be anti-elitist (point 11), “democratic and allied to popular culture (point 5) and then claims their their “interpretation depends on coining new words unknown and unknowable to the masses, on developing a critical jargon of impenetrable profundity…” (point 13.). Other words for “The masses”, include the insultingly elitist, Marxist phrase, “the proleteriat”, or, as was allegedly used recently, “plebs”. Supercillious and pretentious wankers.
Point 12, like point 2, is an insult to artists and was a blatant attempt by untalented and even art-ignorant pseudo-intellectuals to elbow their way into the art world and become indespensible in the validation process
Actually NFTs do have a couple of great niche markets right now... But all the hype has it wrong.
NFTs are great say for games where you can redeem your token for say an in game piece of armor. They are also great for player made content because each time somebody trades/sells that NFT the creator will get a nice kickback.
They are also very good for digital ticket sales. I mean how many people have been ripped off by the scam artists over at Ticketmaster...
They are absolutely god awfully terrible at being "art". The NFT doesn't actually mean you have any ownership of whatever it is representing. It also has nothing legally binding within it. So right now with all the hype and FOMO it is scam city. However there is certainly some really good applications of NFTs.
I put some NFTs on the blockchain a month ago; for those that don't know you can hide zip files as images (I forget exactly how to do it), on the NFT market I was on you can include extra files for whoever buys the art. The whole thing seems shady as shit to me.
I think we know the answer to what they're really buying and I also think I'll lose my lunch.
Never understood modern art, until someone on Win (T_D I think it was) described how it could launder money. Pay an artist 30K to paint a stripe on a canvas, bribe an appraiser to give it a high value, donate or sell it to a museum as a tax write off, or gift it to a friend who sells it to get the money transfer....
... but best of all is imagining some poor museum curator trying to explain to a guests of tourists how that stripe on the canvas has some supreme meaning to it justifying the price tag....
The communists have that covered though, look up the "postmodern manifesto",
https://www.artlyst.com/news/deriding-derridas-deathbed-pomo-manifesto/
https://akickupthearts.wordpress.com/tag/postmodern-manifesto/
This collection of arrogant poseurs has been responsible for many of the excesses and excresences we have had to suffer in contemporary art, from the inexorable rise of curators (point 2), such as Hirst and Koons, neither of whom can do their own work, but pay others to do it for them, to all that “self-consciously shallow, stylistically hybrid, ambiguous” drivel as stated in point 10.
If you have the stomach, take a look at the ‘festo below:
The art of the past is past. What was true of art yesterday is false today.
The Postmodern art of today is defined and determined, not by artists, but by a new generation of curators, philosophers and intellectuals ignorant of the past and able to ignore it.
#3. Postmodernism is a political undertaking, Marxist and Freudian.
Postmodernism is a new cultural condition.
Postmodernism is democratic and allied to popular culture.
Postmodernism denies the possibility of High Art.
Postmodernism deconstructs works of High Art to undermine them.
Postmodernism is subversive, seditiously resembling the precedents it mimics.
Postmodern art is pastiche, parody, irony, ironic conflict and paradox.
Postmodern art is self-consciously shallow, stylistically hybrid, ambiguous, provocative and endlessly repeatable.
Postmodern art is anti-elitist, but must protect its own elitism.
To the Postmodernist every work of art is a text, even if it employs no words and has no title, to be curatorially interpreted. Art cannot exist before it is interpreted.
Postmodernist interpretation depends on coining new words unknown and unknowable to the masses, on developing a critical jargon of impenetrable profundity, and on a quagmire of theory with which to reinforce endowed significance. Vive le Néologisme!
What utter contradictory gibberish. It claims to be anti-elitist (point 11), “democratic and allied to popular culture (point 5) and then claims their their “interpretation depends on coining new words unknown and unknowable to the masses, on developing a critical jargon of impenetrable profundity…” (point 13.). Other words for “The masses”, include the insultingly elitist, Marxist phrase, “the proleteriat”, or, as was allegedly used recently, “plebs”. Supercillious and pretentious wankers.
Point 12, like point 2, is an insult to artists and was a blatant attempt by untalented and even art-ignorant pseudo-intellectuals to elbow their way into the art world and become indespensible in the validation process
Sorry for my ignorance, but what is NFTs?
NFTs?
Actually NFTs do have a couple of great niche markets right now... But all the hype has it wrong.
NFTs are great say for games where you can redeem your token for say an in game piece of armor. They are also great for player made content because each time somebody trades/sells that NFT the creator will get a nice kickback.
They are also very good for digital ticket sales. I mean how many people have been ripped off by the scam artists over at Ticketmaster...
They are absolutely god awfully terrible at being "art". The NFT doesn't actually mean you have any ownership of whatever it is representing. It also has nothing legally binding within it. So right now with all the hype and FOMO it is scam city. However there is certainly some really good applications of NFTs.
Art is being replaced by non-fungible tokens.
I put some NFTs on the blockchain a month ago; for those that don't know you can hide zip files as images (I forget exactly how to do it), on the NFT market I was on you can include extra files for whoever buys the art. The whole thing seems shady as shit to me.
Money laundering
Money laundering, Noone would pay those kind of bullshit prices for that crap if there wasn't another motive.
I have a feeling that money is being tracked more than they or we realize.
It's money laundering dumb ass.
So artfagging is a thing now too?
Ey. Dont ahit on my man banksy. Hes a lengend
It's also for buying operations. Check out the decodes for the art that Trump's allies bought in the past few years.