I don't think it's all shit, however when art is defined as anything the
artist says it is, than everything and nothing is art. I found it
appalling that a 12x12 room filled a foot deep with Pennsylvania loam
was art, about 20 years ago. It was valued at about a Million Dollars.
You could visit it at a New York Gallery, only to peer at it through an
open door. It wasn't even a good concept, but it got glowing reviews in
the New York Times, and mentioned in the Smithsonian Magazine among
other places. The word Art has ceased to have nay meaning, but if you
can get someone to buy it there's a good living in it, for the Gallery
owner if not the "Artist".
On 2/23/2015 3:36 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
You're confusing the art market with the art world, and people who buy and sell
art with people who appreciate and enjoy it. There are vastly more people who
appreciate it than who buy it. If you think it's all shit then that's ok, but
if you can't defend the claim, then there's really no hope for you, no point in
trying to discuss it with you, and really no point in you wasting your time
emailing about it.
B
On 23 Feb 2015, at 20:04, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
The art world is made up of people with more money than brains, or taste, and
the con-men who bilk them, It's an entire ecosystem from produces of shit to
purveyors of shit to consumers of shit. Lik has found out how to get the
consumers of shit to consume his with out the help of the purveyor, that is
what the art world finds distasteful about Peter Lik, He may also be shit, but
that's not the issue.
On 2/23/2015 2:42 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
The art world doesn't have a high opinion of Lik. They think he's shit. And he
is.
B
On 23 Feb 2015, at 18:41, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 2/23/2015 3:16 AM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
Like Lik and Vettriano and others, you seem to misunderstand
fundamentally what matters to the art world. Rhine II is not supposed
to be representative of what was in front of the camera.
I understand exactly what matters to the "art world". I just don't share
their high opinion for Lik et al. It always brings me back to that Dire
Straits song "In the Gallery".
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