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[otter_pops]

in an age where piss christ gets smashed (we agreed over pizza that it shouldn't have been subjected to the hammer, but it still lacked a cohesive vision) and damien hirst's formaldehyde sharks are rotting from the inside, is it really any wonder that evangelical christians dominate the world of art?

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[codymitchell]

Art is dead, as are theater and music. It's only about being poppy and catchy now. Someday I'm sure we'll have some kind of huge worldwide collapse, and in the aftermath another rennaissance of sorts.

But for the time being . . . :\

[otter_pops]

you're right, mr mitchell, you're right. i don't want you to be right about this. i hope it doesn't take a worldwide collapse to bring about a new movement. i just wish i could find contemporary artists who mean something to me.

[jeff2001]

Never know...the sensibility may be such that in the future, Thomas Kinkade is revered as the most important painter of all time. I wonder how they viewed Monet back in the day...they probably said his weird light effects were cheap pandering to the masses.

Kinkade will fade. Most wildly popular artists from one era have a way of vanishing in the next.

[otter_pops]

i think it's really interesting that you mention monet and how particular artists were viewed back in their own time periods. i just think it's fascinating how it varies. rembrandt died basically a pauper and was buried in an unmarked grave. but michelangelo was revered even in his time. during the age of reason, he went out of vogue, people found his art too tormented and emotional. romanticism brought his popularity back. i think monet was one of the only impressionists to receive acclaim and commissions.

[jeff2001]

That's because he gave great BJs.

[otter_pops]

ahaha... to georges clemenceau.

[lightup_tea]

That guy is creepy.

[jeff2001]

He is creepy, isn't he? He looks like a cross between Eddie Izzard and Vince d'Onofrio and a sociopathic 70's porn star.

[otter_pops]

hey now, "that guy" is The Painter of Light

i so badly wanted to type that phrase for you with the little trademark sign that he himself uses, but i don't know how. pretend it's there.

a groping, territory marking evangelical christian. hypocrisy makes me manic.

[rajmahall]

I think trademarks are the new titles of the nobility.

More importantly, what's his coast of arms- I hope it's a dragon with a pleasantly lit bungalow trapped in its jaws, being urinated on by an angel?

[rajmahall]

In the future I hope that all our cultural actors will sport such impressive (read:horrifying) mustaches. All my art will be by Kinkaide, all my news will be from Geraldo, and all my car and cinnabon-needs will be fulfilled by Anthony from For Better or For Worse.

[redheap]

God, the painting itself is so much worse than I thought it might be? I hopehope that his art doesn't make it to the galleries in 300 years time. Unnatural selection may make it so; if piss christ and sharkey in a bottle keep getting smashed, and keep rotting, it might be all that's left?

[otter_pops]

in our future home, i expect that we'll own the entire "family and faith" series. and then we can donate them all to the national gallery when we're old. like the mellons.

[redheap]

we could be the jesus mellons? all this makes me love you more. i'm just wondering how long it is before The Painter of Light insists God is guiding his hand. There could be a new book in the Bible all in pictures. Like some sort of prophetic game of charades.

[otter_pops]

like joseph smith, in picture form? he'll start a new sect of christianity, kinkadianism. do you think they'll get their own fortress around the beltway that the mormons do? it'll be all pastel.