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To: ikka

You quoted the line, "His paintings sell for as much as $900 each on his Web site..."

I've seen this guy's work before, and remain unimpressed. But look, just because he's advertising them at $900 does not mean he actually manages to sell the things. He's a gimmick painter doing a risque variation on action painting, an approach pioneered by Jackson Pollock and others. Over time, other artists have used jet engines to spatter paint, or covered their whole bodies in paint and rolled around on a canvas spread across the floor. You name it, it's probably been done. For these guys, it's all about process, not result. And unlike Pollock, none of them have ever in their lives made anything beautiful and worthwhile. I think what Mr. Butt Cheeks is doing is a technique born of frustration. Insofar as I can tell, he knows nothing of color, or form, or line, or even the rudiments of composition.

In the end (no pun intended), it doesn't matter how the painting is achieved--if I painted while naked, balanced on a unicycle, wearing a derby and singing Gregorian chants, the only thing of the whole ridiculous process that would matter would be the painting itself.

Guys like this continue to give my profession a bad name. If that whole crowd of poseurs had one neck, I would choke it.


28 posted on 01/09/2007 11:45:25 PM PST by Rembrandt_fan
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To: Rembrandt_fan
-if I painted while naked, balanced on a unicycle, wearing a derby and singing Gregorian chants, the only thing of the whole ridiculous process that would matter would be the painting itself.

LOL! Great post.

35 posted on 01/10/2007 5:08:36 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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