Maurucio Catelan's Comedian at the Art Basel Miami Beaxh sold for $120,000
Posted on 12/14/2023 9:51:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
For most of Western history, art was used as a way for patrons to showcase achievements, propagandize citizens, or lionize individuals. Maybe the single greatest artist in human history, Michelangelo, created his greatest works for patrons of various sorts. He created David for the Florentine Guild of Wool, the Pieta for the French ambassador to the Holy See, and the Sistine Chapel and St Peter’s Basilica for popes. Art was, in one way or another, an homage to something greater than its creator.
Fast-forward about three centuries, and the art world begun to change. The idea of art as an indulgence of artists, who paint whatever they want, with or without a desire that someone pay for it, is largely a child of the late 19th century. That’s when Impressionism, that distinctly unconventional, nontraditional form of painting, emerged. In a very short time, the art world went from the uber-traditional world of Bouguereau to the anything-but-traditional world of Monet, Renoir, and Van Gogh. Suddenly, art was no longer a vehicle for vanity or the celebration of greatness or storytelling. It was something else.
In 1917, Marcel Duchamp, a French artist, unveiled a urinal on a wooden box and called it “Fountain.” A hundred years later, art had “evolved” so much that a banana taped to a wall with duct tape (an actual banana…not plastic or paper mâché) would sell for $120,000 in 2019.
It is in this universe of art that we find what is supposed to be cutting edge and courageous, in the form of the Pietà by German designer Harald Glööckler. The revisualization of the classic piece features a tattooed Christ and a trans-Mary. And what’s courageous about this piece? It stands up to those vicious, hateful…Christians.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I have a simple definition of Art:
If I could do it, it ain’t Art.
Yeah maybe, but check out your prose and wit...
Creativity, imagination and subsequent intelligence creates good: art, music comedy etc.....
Conform or else totalitarianism is the direct opposite.
They destroyed comedy-art, music etc....will follow.
They’re so ignorant as Dr Seuss is getting cancelled 90% of the creative arts folks are clapping along.
There ya go.
Can you steal it and sell it as an art piece?
No !!!!
The contextualization is destroyed if you take the glasses to the Lost and Found.
Philistine !
On the contrary, it seems that art has become nothing but a vehicle for vanity. Talent be damned.
Contrast and compare.
Jill Biden Christmas Video (Featuring drag queens)
VS
Melania Trump Christmas Video (Featuring Jesus)
https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1735222529252266001
The left believes Biden’s video is “Art”.
"If a tree falls in a forest..."
Amazing that the USSR would do the re-creation of that.
I don’t think any Western country would have bothered.
It is evident in the way people dress to appear in public. It seems the goal is to be sloppy.
I remember seeing a newsreel of fans at a pro-football game around 1948. The fans were dressed in coats and ties.
Historians say the degenerate hippie culture of the sixties won out entirely.
I always dress up while traveling, though I do wear hiking boots. Don’t expect me to go saving some fat slob wearing flip flops.
Review the 47 planks or goals as listed in The Naked Communist.
One of the goals was to have culture turn on itself - to degrade, offend or demoralize.
Music, visual arts and movies were used to destroy the Christian culture.
controlled demolition
[Wonder how that’s holding up?]
THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
They seem to have fulfilled their goals, which sets up a nation ready to accept the Beast in Revelation.
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