negatives = novelty, kitch, fashion…

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12:49 PM 10/16/2007

negatives: my take on some of the art now being shown in galleries everywhere?????

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novelty
kitsch
fashion [not fashion as fashion once in awhile breeds some very serious new art]
shock for shock
anti social
sexual
isms [fem, fag, etc]
cult
just to be different
no message
narrative [for me this is a no no; I don’t respond well to narrative visual art]
telling hermetic stories — embarrassing to those who are not part of the joke
mannered historical ref art
bad art that shows a struggle is OK
glorified amateur conceptual and technical = embarrassment
political art = religious art = propaganda = scary = horrifying = politics = loss of freedom
film/video = narrative art for the most part
non-narrative video and film is ok; should add to this― music
music = abstract = pure = probs to achieve in visual art = worth while involvement

2:34 AM 10/18/2007

The clever, glitchy, shocky, “I love me”, psychedelic druggy art only scratches surfaces. On the whole the work is or lies only on a surface; not deep in concept and often technically shallow. In many ways you have to be a clever, glitchy, shocky, “I love me”, psychedelic druggy person to get it! Yes?

2:47 AM 10/18/2007

no stories. no drama. just paintin my music and lettin it all hang out naturally. lettin ma muse run free. lettin one moment in painting lead to another moment in painting and allowing it to unfold according to its own need and requirement. me, I am just a medium too. paint and me are the same stuff. havin fun. not tryin to impress anybody, just doin ma thing. enjoying my time. working alone in da studio. I am my own most enchanted listener. self arguments define painting sometimes. why not?

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