tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6612223.post110904203637870310..comments2023-06-16T05:43:07.069-04:00Comments on Jay Blathers And Bloviates: The CrackersJayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14592209415475630785noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6612223.post-1109671989952145882005-03-01T05:13:00.000-05:002005-03-01T05:13:00.000-05:00Jay; you might not like this but the fact is that ...Jay; you might not like this but the fact is that art is an expression of the "intelligentsia" of a society. This is; a very sophisticated word that means "the way society thinks".<br />The classics were certainly an expression of their society. So were Picasso and specially Dali, who had the amazing ability to paint as well and even better than most of the Spanish classics (Rafael, Velasquez, etc.) but choose not to. He was certainly a genius and his museum in Figueres, Spain, is a testament both to his amazing talent and his utter disregard for what most people, me and I think you included, expect art to be. <br />After visiting his museum and looking at his exquisite classic paintings together with some of the weirdest pieces I have ever seen in my life, I came out convinced that Dali’s message was that the destruction of art is also an expression of art. <br />Koon is an artist who depicts how low we have come and most important, an artist with a total lack of talent that is stuck in the destruction side of the artistic expression because he is obviously no Dali and certainly, no a genius. <br />It is a pity though, that the MoMa, a museum that I cherish, tries to make sense from something that has no sense. It would have been better for them just to say; “modern artist lost in a crevasse of art expression”.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6612223.post-1109548564707217242005-02-27T18:56:00.000-05:002005-02-27T18:56:00.000-05:00It's one thing to make art, it's another thing ent...It's one thing to make art, it's another thing entirely to make art that deserves to be in a museum, the apotheosis of expression. Koons's vacuum cleaners easily qualify for the former, but I have nothing except contempt for his — and/or the MoMA's — desperate and nonsensical attempt to justify the latter.Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14592209415475630785noreply@blogger.com