[Rembrandt_fan]

You've made me color drunk today (a good thing). Could've done without the Kruger and Salle reminders, though--their kind of ham-fisted irony and smug, self-congratulatory dreck gets on my nerves in a major way. I would argue, too, that Kruger is more designer than artist, better suited to magazine covers than gallery or museum walls. Salle, of course, wears his angst-ridden sarcasm like a second skin. Who would've thought these celebrated Eighties icons would become so dated and hackneyed so soon after? Warhol, although a kind of one-trick-pony insofar as his consumerism/mass production themes are concerned, still holds up. At least he had something to say, and said it with originality and wit.

[Republicanprofessor]

Glad you like the color! You'll have to try to see it in person (it travels next to Spain). (But such color is not what Rembrandt would have used; glad that Rembrandt_fan is not so limited!)

Kruger is more of a designer, but I guess that the points she wins as a feminist give her approval as an artist among the liberal art world. Yes, she makes some good points; but otherwise her work is not so deep. Salle's work is so poorly painted as well as so empty of meaning and so sexist; it's my favorite work to dislike.

Warhol's work does still hold up, especially suicide works and those works done with deeper content (despite his disavowal to the contrary).

Glad you enjoyed the post. The show was most inspiring.