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Victorian Punk
Picture a bunch of well-to-do art-school kids. They’re not truly excellent painters, but they basically say fuck-you to their teachers; we can paint better than any of you crusty old bastards. With supreme arrogance, they decided that the art world needed a revolution. Remarkably, they put their heads together and succeeded. This wasn’t the 1990s […]
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Ideas as ‘Art’
Ideas do not make good films, or good art period. As in, ‘wouldn’t be be clever if we did this?’ Things are never clever when they’re trying to be clever. (Which is a good measure of modern art, which baffles so many. When it’s relying on the higher brain to applaud it, it is likely […]
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Pat Hobaugh
‘This series explores the subject of sexuality via contemporary still lifes. These paintings at once demystify the sexual nature of the objects by candidly displaying them for the viewer’s eye, but then remystify their intent by divorcing them from their sexual context via arrangement in the manner of conventional still lifes. Rendered in this liminal […]