Artists Should Try Manhood For a Change

The Missal ^ | 7/18/06 | JWG

[occu77]

Why the modern Artist needs to give up on being such a prissified pansy, a limp wrist-ed imitator of actors and other ne'er do wells, stop painting his face like a mime, pick up a chisel and a hammer, and start acting again like a Real Man.

Before I present my thesis proper on this issue let me briefly interject a bit of history into the discussion. Art, architecture, sculpture used to be dominated by real men. Men who could bend iron bars in their bare hands and invent incredible devices, like Leonardo, men who could labor torturous hours suspended in backbreaking rafters to paint a huge cathedral ceiling, like Michelangelo, men who could invent and design and build, like Phidias. Men who were centuries ahead of their time, true beacons of their age, often as much scientist and philosopher and poet and warrior and strategist and even priest as just a run of the mill artist and dabbler in crayons and water color.

[Blind Eye Jones]

I think the writer hates the modern day image of an artist, i.e., the emaciated, cadaverous, jet black, neo-holocaust look and the overly sensitive, neurotic, up scale bitch queen look, as two urban examples. There are others like the intellectual, rarified effete snob look (great at swank parties) and the multi-tattooed, rainbowed haired, ring piecing, semi-butch look. I guess this should be catalog for posterity one day when future generations of scholars will look back with a discerning eye to fashion and make discriminating pronouncements about our times.

[xowboy]

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[occu77]

"I think the writer hates the modern day image of an artist, i.e., the emaciated, cadaverous, jet black, neo-holocaust look and the overly sensitive, neurotic, up scale bitch queen look, as two urban examples. There are others like the intellectual, rarified effete snob look (great at swank parties) and the multi-tattooed, rainbowed haired, ring piecing, semi-butch look. I guess this should be catalog for posterity one day when future generations of scholars will look back with a discerning eye to fashion and make discriminating pronouncements about our times."

For a blind man you see a lot.