Thanks Marcus for posting this. I would like to upload it to the Foundation’s site, www.artadvancement.org, in the future. And I like your school boy analogy. And John I empathize with your opinion more than you know.
Michael wrote: Socrates said, "know thyself." He sure knows himself as an artistic fraud:”
See I would replace “fraud” with “postmodernist”, Damien is one of the excellent postmodernists out there and it takes genuine balls to go out into the world and take the stances that he does…but after 9/11 he had to retract a statement about 9/11 as a work of art, it had a undercurrent feeling of respect and awe, I think I beat him to the statement though but, of course, I called it the height of postmodern aesthetics…wicked me. When one gets the concept that postmodernism is, at essence, an anti-art movement it all makes crystal-clear sense.
Michael goes on to say: “I'd really like to meet his friends though. The man sure knows some generous souls out there...”
Hahaha, you naive innocent! They would see your essence faster than it would take you to exclaim a Portuguese profanity!
Rand’s brilliance, and her capacity to imagine evil genius is perceptively illustrated in Toohey’s method in which he tirelessly works to promote mediocrity as genius thereby undercutting genuine greatness because the lay public will no longer have any understanding about the issues involved. So right before our eyes we get to see a whole system of networking on this principle by following the career of Hirst and his buddies, especially Saatchi, http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/
But, again, I think it takes balls to be these people, could you imagine going out on a packed Met stage and sing an opera aria without great talent?! …well there is some New York socialite who did that at Carnegie Hall, Florence something…
Personally, I think I am evolving to point where I view all this postmodern stuff as a folly, except…except that it can destroy the dreams or, even, the possibility of dreams for potentially great artists…rotting in formaldehyde is too good an end for PM's…have I told you my theory that all art is a self-portrait of the artist’s soul?...;)
Michael
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