who the hell knows
post modernism is all about people not being able to work out what post modernism means and what comes after modernism
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:19, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

there is a level of pretention around the "movements"
which leaves me wanting to kick people really hard in the face, I admit.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:23, Reply)

oh hell yeah
I love confusing people in art galleries by calling them when they make some ridiculous pretentious and badly thought out comment. My mate has a philosophy MA and does this much better than me.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:24, Reply)

you really want to meet my brother.
He's the king of that, and has the stones and artistic talent to take more or less anyone down over it.

I'm trying to find some of his stuff online but it seems the gallery he used to use don't have any of his stuff any more. Shame, as it was all one giant postmodern pisstake and people still bought it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:27, Reply)

I see
If he's doing it that way, then I like the untitled drawing you mentioned above :)
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:35, Reply)

You'll love this
He sold what's called an "installation" piece to a guy for a couple of grand. It was 5 blank white canvasses but each had a fluorescent tube and a black stencil behind them. They were all connected to a random signal generator hidden in the wall (hence the installation) that turned the the lights on and off at random, lighting up words on each canvas. If you lit all five canvases, it read "Sometimes" "I worry" "I don't know" "how to" "paint"

absolute 24-carat genius, and people never seemed to get it was a pisstake.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:49, Reply)

That's brilliant
And 2 grand for it! Well done from your brother!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:51, Reply)