Why it's OK not to like modern art

The Times (UK) ^ | 5/8/03 | Julian Spalding

[=Intervention=]

AMEN!!!!! I have been told by the cogniscetti that I MUST like Jazz for years (and I keep thinking, "Why should I like a song where the musicians play a great lick once and then never play it again?") Opera = fat ladies singing in Italian. Ugh.

-=I=-

[jejones]

Eh? The Soviet Union was infamous for its tacky, propagandistic "socialist realism." Shostakovich got into deep dung over his Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, which I'm sure the folks who bash modern "serious" music would happily condemn, and dropped back to writing safe stuff for a long time. If communists were pushing particular art forms, I'd expect them to urge hard-edged heroic paintings of Michael Moore (I think I just made myself sick...), or stirring hymns to Ralph Nader.

[stands2reason]

please explain Kincaid

Nobody can explain that.

[stands2reason]

I've seen better prison art...

[stands2reason]

Vermeer is the true Painter of Light.

[wardaddy]

Girl with Red Hat Bump!

[wardaddy]

No, but I'll check it out,

I wish I could remember the name of the German sounding fellow who did the mainly Eastern Indian settings ....very renaissance style oriented.

I hate to go drag out my old copies of Southwest Art...

[Shooter 2.5]

"I can't argue with that technically but please explain Kincaid and Doolittle's incredible popularity.

Substitute "Beany Babies" for the words Kincaid and Doolittle and you can answer your own question. I know a guy who has Kincaid prints through his whole house and all he talks about is how much they appreciated in value.

[wardaddy]

Does every mall have a Kincaid store now?

I rememeber in the early 90s when Doolittle was selling 25 million dollars in prints/posters per year with single issues of 15000 signed and numbered. I bet she did not personally sign those. They have a signature "machine" actually that mimics signatures with a lead pencil.

When I published, we did from 300-1000 per issue.

[Incorrigible]