A Few Comments on Art Today
By Mr. Mysterious

It simply blows me away to think how far art has come since the high renaissance. Look, for example, at just the last half century. American pop artists have opened up a whole new market for corporate America to become famous art masters.

Andy Warhol was an eccentric and timid man who should have spent his money on a psychologist instead of on a silk-screen. However, since he didn't, we all benefit from his changes to the painting world. Now you don't even have to contribute to the creation of your work.

Warhol's manhandling of the art world pales in comparison to Picasso. Picasso is the greatest bullshit artist to ever walk; and though Lichtenstein is a close second, only Picasso has managed to be taken extremely seriously. Today Picasso is considered one of the greatest artists ever. What a joke. Why? Because he invented Cubism? Cubism is an easy way to add structure to a figure without work. Cubism is the ticket to mass production in a capitalist society. Cubism is the beginning of the quick out. Impressionists were at least a little legit. Lazy, but legit. Picasso is not even close to any of the great masters. Rembrandt would neither laugh nor cry if he saw Picasso—he would run, right after he shot his bitch-ass dead.

Art class is always full of rejects saying over and over that what Rembrandt did is done and they could paint like that if it came down to that, but why? No one has ever walked that has a thing on Rembrandt, the greatest ever, not some abstract crap artist. Abstract painting is almost good enough to go in a person's bathroom, but only if it can fit in the toilet. Crap—That's all it is. Crap, crap, crap. No abstract painting has the emotion of a Rembrandt, the life of a Rembrandt. Color? Rembrandt didn't waste his time writing silly books about color like Kandinsky or Albers, he just applied it. And compositionally, the masters had it down. Carvaggio can run circles around Picasso or Kandinsky or Miro when it comes to complex compositions.

I find the validity of today's lousy concept art to be none. Even the subject matter in the Renaissance is stronger than today's. No smut overload in the Renaissance. The so-called masters of the 20th century did know a lot about things like color or composition individually, and they all chose one of the elements of art to exploit and ignored everything else. What makes that good art? Muting out structure or composition or color or perspective in favor of another element is just half-stepping. Fine, if you're too lazy to do it all. Better to do part of it great than all of it lousy, but if that's the case, stop doing art. Lawyers don't perform surgeries, and doctors don't build houses, so lazy fools shouldn't make art.