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WCDT 4121-4125 (October 28th - Nov 1st 2019)

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Thrudd:
Quotes regarding "Art."
(click to show/hide)Modern Art
Modern Art is a privately funded welfare program for kids who got too stoned in art school to ever found Airbnb. It’s a social safety net for the kids of the one percenters.

Modern, or “conceptual art” isn’t art at all. It’s one big circle jerk of pretentious twats trying to make themselves look sophisticated by ascribing meaning to something that’s completely meaningless… Why is it that the most talent-less and vacuous shit gets promoted by the art establishment? Well, it’s partly born out of elitism. If the artistic merit of a bunch of squiggly lines can only be appreciated by a select number of privileged insiders they can sneer at the uninitiated, and justify their own intellectual superiority.

When you see someone intently staring at a Jackson-Pollock-style vomit canvas they’re not really trying to ascertain its deeper meaning. It’s all just an act to prove to the other pompous wankers that they’re part of the same cult of aesthetic relativism, while sneering at the Philistine general public who just don’t get it, despite the fact that there’s nothing to get.

Conceptual art is shit. It doesn’t enrich our culture: it degrades and cheapens society by exulting the vulgar, the crass, and the scatological. And the people promoting it are preventing us from enjoying modern art produced by artists with actual talent. Those people are contemptible, regressive, twats, who should be ostracized, shamed, and left alone to play with each other’s poo while genuflecting over its artistic brilliance.

That place is dog shit. It is one the the worst museums I’ve ever been to in my entire life… Well, I went with my kids ’cause I thought it’d be fun to take the kids to the art museum. My kids love art, and they could see some cool paintings and shit. And I knew we were fucked when we first got there because we walked into this room, and it looks like there are these curvy walls, and I felt like you go inside the curvy walls and there’s probably some cool paintings. NO! The curvy walls were the fucking art. And I went, “Noooooo. We’re fucked! It’s one of THESE places. And there were all these super pretentious people. They were like, please don’t touch that. Everywhere you go they’re like, “don’t touch, don’t touch, don’t touch”.

It’s like super-pretentious meets uber-pretentious, and they collide in a fucking shit-storm of hipster. Oh my God, it was so gross.

I have no problem with conceptual art itself, unless it’s just a bad example of it. I prefer to live in a world with conceptual art in it, including the likes of Koons and Hirst, who I have lampooned in the past. In the case of those two characters, it’s just their astronomical fame and fortune – when most artists only dream of being able to continue making art at all – combined with the absence of traditional skill, substance, or obvious sacrifice in the work, which adds injury to insult. The art itself is an addition to life, at least something to ponder on a lunch break.

Imagine this scenario. All the bullshit theory about music became more interesting and important than actually listening to the music. Theory about music started to dictate music and musicians followed the new rules. Out of this transformation, musicians began to make theoretical music, which appealed more to everyone who appreciated theory more than music.

Expensive Art of any genre
A rich man's collectible card game.

Artists on the subject of Art that the unwashed masses appreciate
A picture is a poem without words
We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

dutchrvl:
TL;DR Sam is a good kid at heart but does need to learn what is and isn't acceptable behavior.

This clearly isn't acceptable, and it seems time for Faye and Bubbles to set some clear boundaries. If I were them I would not be amused by this for a truckload of reasons, regardless of a good personal relationship with Sam.

Zebediah:
Comic is up at last.

Reggie is pretty. 

BenRG:
Oh, Faye! Never mind, trends are like the spring blossoms: They come and go. In a year's time, everyone will have forgotten about sprays and the like but they'll still need mods and repairs and that means you and Bubbles will still be there (barely breaking even but still there). Of course, I'm not entirely sure that even Sam will care about her spray artist career in six months time but that's a whole different issue!

Also: Yes, Bubbles, do it. I so want you to have, on the small of your back, a valentine heart with 'B+F 4EVA' inside!

Finally, I think that Sam must be going through a growth spurt; she's got very thin and lanky suddenly!

TheEvilDog:
Yeah, the trend might fade away, but Union Robotics might go bust long before that happens.

I can feel where Faye is coming from, this is her and Bubbles' business, not Sam's. She's there as a sort of unpaid intern, she isn't contributing anything to the business and yet Sam's business is growing faster and stronger than UR. That's disheartening for anyone.

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