RE: Andy Worhol, my long time false perception.
October 4, 2019 at 11:24 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2019 at 11:25 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Dean Koons like Warhol seems to embrace capitalism like Soviet artists embraced Lenin and painted workers and fields in social realism. In spite of everything that was happening in Soviet Union they just embraced the idealized version of it all.
It's not kind of a art/ painting in tradition of Jacques Louis David and The Death of Marat, Goya and The Third of May 1808, Picasso and Guernica... indeed none of the artists/ painters today in US deal with problems of the times and refuse to tackle with stuff like 9/11, Guantanamo Bay, border camps, wars in middle east , but rather look away, are not trying to make something that will make people think, shock but rather are just trying to make something that everyone will like.
Dean Koons likes to compare himself to Michelangelo like his statue of Michael Jackson with Pieta and maybe he's right considering what was happening in Italy at the times, with all the wars and crimes, Michelangelo and others made these fantasy paintings and statues.
That's why perhaps Banksy is more of an artist than Koons, Warhol and the likes of them.
It's not kind of a art/ painting in tradition of Jacques Louis David and The Death of Marat, Goya and The Third of May 1808, Picasso and Guernica... indeed none of the artists/ painters today in US deal with problems of the times and refuse to tackle with stuff like 9/11, Guantanamo Bay, border camps, wars in middle east , but rather look away, are not trying to make something that will make people think, shock but rather are just trying to make something that everyone will like.
Dean Koons likes to compare himself to Michelangelo like his statue of Michael Jackson with Pieta and maybe he's right considering what was happening in Italy at the times, with all the wars and crimes, Michelangelo and others made these fantasy paintings and statues.
That's why perhaps Banksy is more of an artist than Koons, Warhol and the likes of them.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
