There's no equation, unfortunately, between good (by which I mean left)
politics and good art.
There are some artists with rotten politics who repay repeated, even lifelong,
attention as artists.
Morandi, fascist sympathiser, is one of them.
There are some artists you'd trust with your life, politically, who are deadly
dull as artists.
I saw the huge Gilbert and George retrospective at the Tate a couple of years
back and it was one of the most excruciatingly dull experiences of my life,
though "excruciatingly" makes it sound several degrees more attention grabbing
than it actually was.
My beef with G & G is they make very dull art on an industrial scale.
It hasn't always been the case - I love their early moving image stuff...
For me there's something about good art, whatever the personality or views of
the originator, that is inherently liberating, but that's another and longer
discussion...
cheers
michael
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From: dave miller <[email protected]>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening
Standard yesterday
Hi Rob
This makes sense to me - Gilbert and George have become the Terry
Thomases of the art world.
dabe
On 6 March 2012 19:31, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/03/12 17:03, marc garrett wrote:
>>
>> I think it's obvious that G&G are elitists, and would not wish to lose
>> any income from their bourgeois client base.
>
> Their original artistic gesture was to conflate aesthetic and social
> form. This was interesting but over time it has led to their public
> pronouncements increasingly being bad form, in the Terry-Thomas sense.
>
>> Who gives a shit whether they work from 5. am or not - many work just as
>> hard for much less, and are losing their jobs, communities, and much
>> more - they are not relevant.
>
> Yes hard work is not sufficient to explain personal wealth, whatever the
> psychological needs of the rich or indeed the simply not impoverished.
>
> - Rob.
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