tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:47:49 +0000http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/index.htmlLA Stuckist GroupBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-3018728189877549373Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:18:00 +00002007-02-27T14:47:50.245-08:00"Is there such a thing as Bad Art?" That we continually hear this question asked, and by so many people, is an indication of the doldrums the artistic community presently finds itself in. It would have been unthinkable to ponder such a question only a few decades ago, as the answer would have been self-evident. Can we recognize a distinction between superior and dreadful acting? Are there http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2007/02/good-art-vs-bad-art.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-3270016590932706467Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:55:00 +00002007-02-16T13:15:20.974-08:00A few people have written to us, asking our opinion of contemporary painter, John Currin. While Remodernists promote and extol "new figurative painting with ideas," - there is painting and then there is painting. Despite the fact that Currin is a figurative painter, he is decidedly in the postmodern camp. His mockish works are laden with gimmickry, sarcasm, an unvarnished disdain for humanity, http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2007/02/pornographer-john-currin.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-371703747060818436Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:45:00 +00002007-02-12T13:42:47.523-08:00Art lovers in the know are yawing over the news that postmodern art superstar, Damien Hirst, will exhibit his latest "paintings" at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, California, starting this February 22nd. Hirst will not be showing his usual menagerie of pickled animals in formaldehyde, or paint by numbers photorealist paintings created by his assistants - he’s moved on to loftier http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2007/02/scream-of-butterfly.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-117011162761070468Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:51:00 +00002007-01-29T15:00:27.623-08:00Some Influence is an exhibit of objects created by Deborah Fisher, showing at the Dangerous Curve experimental exhibition space in downtown Los Angeles from February 3 to March 10, 2007. Remodernists can’t even contemptuously refer to Fisher’s random sculptures as "crap," since the artist herself refers to her sculptural approach as "crapture." One is hard pressed to refer to what Fisher does as http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2007/01/crapture-no-influence.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116914124404337912Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:18:00 +00002007-01-18T09:30:38.023-08:00The myartspace.com web log has published an extensive interview with the L.A. Stuckist group. Myartspace is a "fresh new community-based website for established artists, emerging artists, aspiring artists, photographers and members of the art world - teachers, collectors, museums, galleries, art buyers." The following is an excerpt from the interview: "Examples of Remodernist art can be found http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2007/01/interview-with-la-stuckist-group.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116905936294676924Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:36:00 +00002007-01-17T10:42:43.080-08:00Aldous Huxley is a writer well known for his insights into the human condition. First published in 1932, his cautionary novel, Brave New World, warned of a futuristic society that seems much like the one we now find ourselves wrapped up in. In Island, his 1962 tale of a flourishing Pacific island utopia, Huxley wrote a scene where one character offers the following criticism of another’s http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2007/01/huxleys-stuckist-island.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116889480637290060Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:49:00 +00002007-01-15T13:00:07.346-08:00 [ Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Pablo Picasso 1907. ] Pablo Picasso started his painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, in the winter of 1907, and so you could say that Modernism in painting is now 100 years old. Writing for The Guardian, art critic Jonathan Jones proclaims, "So - a centenary. If you care about modern art, this is its centenary. Works of art settle down eventually, become respectablehttp://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2007/01/100-years-of-modernist-painting.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116846407746903358Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:30:00 +00002007-01-15T11:42:05.066-08:00[ UPDATE: In the following we take writer David Thompson to task for his article, Art Bollocks Revisited. Soon after publishing our critique, Mr. Thompson wrote to offer a refutation. Out of fairness and a desire for open dialog, we’ve decided to publish Thompson’s rebuttal in full at the end of this article. ] Art Bollocks Revisited is an article written by freelance writer and art critic, http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2007/01/postmodernism-blame-karl-marx.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116639506938403646Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:02:00 +00002007-01-10T13:29:43.376-08:00[ UPDATE: This article has been revised, please see its closing for all the details ] Every movement whose time has come will experience steady growth and maturation, leading inevitably to splits and factions. Such is the case with the phenomenon of Stuckism, or the Remodernist movement, in the United States. American Remodernists have been formulating ideas, painting works under the banner of http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/12/against-national-chauvinism-in-art.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116681689110774149Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:36:00 +00002006-12-22T11:56:23.853-08:00Paradox and Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism, is an exhibition of conceptualist installation art held at the Room Gallery at The University of California, Irvine, supposedly offering a reconsideration of the "notion of 'site,' as it exists between art and architecture." The exhibit’s first but unintended contradiction is to be encountered in its title, which refers to http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/12/postmodern-paradox-and-practice.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116621755359425201Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:47:00 +00002006-12-15T13:19:13.703-08:00In 2000 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presented, Magritte, a major retrospective of artworks by the Belgian surrealist painter, René Magritte. The straightforward exhibition presented some sixty-five works that highlighted the artist’s "painting as representation, and the relationship between language and images." The exhibit was the first overview of Magritte’s work on the Westhttp://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/12/magritte-treachery-of-postmodernism.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116544111451303506Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:19:00 +00002006-12-07T12:00:27.636-08:00On December 4th, 2006, the annual high-profile Turner Prize was awarded at ceremonies held at London’s Tate Britain. Yoko Ono was on hand to announce the winner, abstract painter Tomma Abts, who also walked away with the Turner cash prize of $79,122. Abts, 38, is a German-born artist now living in London, and the first female painter to win the Tate prize. The Tate has in the past ignored http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/12/turner-prize-big-yawn.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116257595732353408Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:40:00 +00002006-11-03T09:45:57.333-08:00"Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis. (....) In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/11/brad-holland-on-postmodernism.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116251134906947609Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:32:00 +00002006-11-02T15:49:09.100-08:00Hollywood entertainment mogul David Geffen, has sold a Jackson Pollock drip painting from his personal art collection for an estimated $140 million. That’s the highest price ever paid for a painting. Carol Vogel of the New York Times reports that Jack the Dripper’s No. 5, 1948 was purchased by fellow oligarch, Mexican financier David Martinez, who recently bought an apartment in New York’s Time http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/11/filthy-rich-oligarchs-trade-art.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116242371694100533Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:20:00 +00002006-11-01T15:28:36.950-08:00Brian Sherwin, writing for myartspace.com, has conducted interesting interviews with Stuckist co-founder and artist Charles Thomson, and New York painter Terry Marks. When asked by Sherwin if "people once again have faith in the revolutionary power of art" due to groups of artists like the Stuckists, Thomson replied: "Revolution for its own sake is a bad thing. Revolution is only valid if there http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/11/interviews-with-stuckists.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-116162189294585604Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:40:00 +00002006-10-23T09:45:38.253-07:00Writer, academic, commentator, and feminist provocateur Germaine Greer, is no stranger to controversy. She’s just written some musings on the nature of contemporary art published by the Guardian newspaper, and while we don’t agree with all her points - it’s still a worthwhile read. In her article on the new philistinism in art, Greer wrote:"(...) perhaps that's the way to know the 'good' artists.http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/10/germaine-greer-on-art-mafia.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-115985412170085651Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:32:00 +00002006-10-02T22:42:01.706-07:00Damien Hirst and his ridiculous pickled shark have finally been outdone. Mexican postmodernist, Gabriel Orozco, has suspended an entire whale skeleton from the ceiling of the White Cube Gallery in London. Part of his first show at White Cube, the 45 foot roqual whale is what the artist calls "a drawing", since he’s penciled lines over the whole skeleton with black graphite. The installation is http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/10/whale-of-art-fraud.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-115938680651048011Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:38:00 +00002006-09-27T12:53:26.520-07:00American author and journalist, Thomas Wolfe, is certainly one of the country’s best writers. Over the decades he’s penned works as diverse as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities. He also wrote two extremely controversial histories regarding modern art and architecture, The Painted Word (1975) and From Bauhaus To Our House (1981). Despite Wolfe’s http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/09/thomas-wolfe-and-painted-word.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-115897019248715667Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:02:00 +00002006-09-22T17:09:52.500-07:00L.A.'s wonderful Spencer Jon Helfen Gallery's current exhibit is titled, The California Modernist Portrait, a must see show of California Modernist paintings and sculptures from the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's. The gallery has some dazzling paintings on display that will give you an idea of the technical and emotional power of the artists from that particular period. The gallery asks that their http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/09/california-modernist-portrait.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-115768444427948865Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:59:00 +00002006-09-07T20:00:44.286-07:00"It’s the combination of narcissism and nihilism that really defines postmodernism." - Al Gorehttp://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/09/words-of-wisdom.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-115726249471439209Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:25:00 +00002006-09-02T22:48:14.726-07:00The LA Stuckist group revels in the practice of toppling art world sacred cows. But we don’t just lash out at our targets for the sheer pleasure of it all - no, there is a method to our madness, and at any rate, we’ll leave it to the postmodernists to practice a clichéd two-bit nihilism… after all, they’re so much better at it. For all the fun we’ve been having hurling our spears at the elite arthttp://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/09/bruce-nauman-emperor-without-clothes.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-115707962052328918Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:52:00 +00002006-08-31T20:00:20.533-07:00Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned scholar, political analyst, and Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In a 1995 essay titled, Rationality/Science, Chomsky disparages the postmodernist critique of Western science, logic and rationality as being nothing more than "self-destructive tendencies". But Chomsky’s article is also an all encompassing critical http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/08/noam-chomsky-on-postmodernism.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-115688746070651720Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:29:00 +00002006-08-29T14:37:40.776-07:00 [ Paradise Burning - A Kinkade parody painting ] What new title might Thomas Kinkade bestow upon himself? Convict of Light? Painter of Blight? The multi-millionaire hack painter, packaged as the "Painter of Light", is apparently now in trouble with the Feds over fraud charges. Several gallery owners claim to have been taken for a ride by Kinkade, alleging the artist and the top executives of hishttp://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/08/thomas-kinkade-convict-of-light.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-115652740230726931Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:29:00 +00002006-08-25T10:36:42.320-07:00Congratulations to our Stuckist comrades in not so Merry 'ol England! The Independent ran an article on the London Stuckists and their upcoming exhibition at the Spectrum Gallery - the first exhibit of Remodernist works to take place at an established commercial gallery in England. The paper quoted Stuckism co-founder Charles Thomson as saying the exhibit was "a major development" in the UK http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/08/london-stuckists-go-west.htmlLA Stuckist Grouptag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32345246.post-115628639997025360Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:30:00 +00002006-08-22T15:58:33.713-07:00No, the title of this article is not in reference to the corruption scandals at the J. Paul Getty Museum, outrages that have resulted in the departures of Getty Trust President Barry Munitz and Getty Trust Chairman John Biggs. Nor does it refer to the ongoing trial in Italy of former Getty antiquities curator, Marion True, on charges of conspiring to deal in illegally looted art artifacts. http://www.la-stuckism.com/blog/2006/08/rampaging-pigs-at-getty.htmlLA Stuckist Group