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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
That could easily be the motto for any lazy, unscrupulous artist who is out there trying to make a living out of poorly produced pieces of 'work'. One of the things that always struck me about Warhol is not so much a lot of his work itself, but more the cynical comment that someone who came from a commercial illustrative background made on the art world in general. Warhol himself declared his work to be rubbish a lot of the time, but it certainly didn't come across for quite sometime as the work of someone whose mind was rubbish at all, in fact he certainly was hated fervently by a lot of his contemporaries. The reason being that his work made pretty much a mockery of a lot of what was then being pretentiously being considered art.
To be continued................
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What's wrong with being lazy or unscrupulous? Warhol got away with it for years.
It's the work that counts.
'Poor production' is a matter of subjective opinion.
You make your art with the materials to hand - if you don't have hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of diamonds lying around waiting to be made into a glittery skull, so what? Use an unmade bed.
Art isn't about technique or materials - it's about artistic thought made whole. Whether it's a crudely carved piece of wood in the shape of an African Deity, a customised lowrider, a potato print, Picasso's 'Guernica' or the words of the Q'ran wrought in gold on the gates of a mosque - it's an expression of artistic thought made whole. Like it or not - it's art. Not 'good art' or 'bad art', there is no such thing, once again that is a subjective opinion. Art
is what it
is.