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- flashbender0
(from http://www.slamxhype.com/)
- menos0
two templates and a bucket or two of paint... fair enough.
- i_monk0
I'm sick of Banksy.
- menos0
i'm not necessarily sick of Banksy but i just find it amusing how his art is now so commercial. A total antithesis to what it was supposedly about.. whatever that was.
- I don't find it amusing. I find it exemplary of "correct" recklessness for one part and utterly revealing for another.Corvo
- Whatever that means. Maybe it just doesn't mean anything nowadays.Corvo
- Maybe that has to do because we were taught that art was a 'sacred' philosophical thing and we don't find that anymo.Corvo
- If all is science and molecules, then nothing else makes sense - as a relevant truth. Except text, which has defects.Corvo
- Point50
it seems like ultimately, that's where every road leads to: commercial. Shepard Fairey, Outkast, Christmas. If it collects a great fanbase or some hype machine behind it, it will be absorbed by the masses and money will be flung.
- Jaline0
^ yes, it seems almost unavoidable to me.
- menos0
i don't mind commercial-ness, i just find that when a 'street' artist who supposedly fights commercialism and the establishment (especially the art world one) ends up in auction houses and galleries, is slightly oxymoronic.
- you're being gentle. indeed. that's how we should catch fish. truth is most people have no morals, just catch-phrases.Corvo
- mrdobolina0
when it pops up at urban outfitters it will be bad.
- Corvo0
Sorry to bring this up, but in Sociology (I actually had the misfortune to graduate on that) this discussion about art as money, etcetera, is usually referred or approached to as the "Chicago School theory of Art", following the "Chicago School of Economics" which has left a definitive in-print in the world we're living today. They mostly dealt with how big cities were organising themselves and watched how the values of the people inside it changed and were manageable.
In short, they predicted that in any free economy (which they defended nonetheless), the ability to reproduce works of art by mass-printing methods would bring the extinction of art itself, and that the meaningful aspect of any piece of artwork would be over-runned by its massive consumption. In other words, they meant that if you can have copies, then you can't ever worship any piece of artwork as reality 'itself'.
That's what we're living now.
- Corvo0
yup. we're fucking fucking with fucked up fucks from fucked up fucked up fuckdoms.
- utopian0
Who thought that spray painting rats stencils and shadows on alley way walls would land you that much wealth and prestige.
So, this weekend I am going out and spray painting every old lady that I can find with purple paint. You never know, I might be making millions in a couple of years.
Anyway, good for Banksy and Warhol. Atleast someone made it big.