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MrScorpio

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8. I've got a secret for you...
Sun May 6, 2012, 11:48 PM
May 2012

That when it looks like they're not trying to say something coherent, then there's a good chance that they're probably not even aware themselves of what they're trying to say.

I'm not a big fan of intentionally discordant art.

I've got a clue as to what mechanism is being employed. Think back to the old fable about the Emperor's New Clothes. But, instead of it being the King's tailor who's trying to fool the King into wearing "invisible" clothes, it would be as if the King himself is fully aware that he's walking around naked and is trying to fool his subjects into believing his own bullshit.

(That would be a great definition of the Art of Politics too)

Artists who try to pull off this kind of stuff are hoping that they're fooling their viewers into believing that some great message is being said in the art, when it's really not. They're trying to appeal to suckers with money who think that they're smarter than what they actually are.

By the way, this is a great time for me to point out that I think that Art Critics are usually full of shit themselves (And useless pieces of animated skin), especially when they're responsible for promoting intentionally discordant bullshit art on the masses.

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