Is anyone else watching this? I was so excited for it to start and I wondered how they'd judge the best, since art is so subjective. Hmmmf. Turns out it's just like art college and they give out dopey assignments and who ever doesn't "get it" gets fired. Last episode they assigned a book cover. There's only one commercial artist in the bunch, surprise..he won. Dur. One talented older painter went home because she wouldn't play their dumb game and I couldn't blame her. Some of them hadn't ever read the book they were supposed to illustrate. WTF? I hope that untrained guy wins, he's good. But, I'll betcha Miles wins. He has OCD and likes to burn things and take long naps. The judges are pretentious bungs who couldn't paint their own asshole with a magnifying mirror and they love Miles. He reminds me of those douchebags who sucked up in art classes by pretending to have a disdain for the entire world. All they did was roll their eyes, smoke French ciggies and turn in giant abstracts of their friend's penis's. Next weeks assignment is "shock art." Give me and Marilyn Manson a break.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
Is anyone else watching this? I was so excited for it to start and I wondered how they'd judge the best, since art is so subjective. Hmmmf. Turns out it's just like art college and they give out dopey assignments and who ever doesn't "get it" gets fired. Last episode they assigned a book cover. There's only one commercial artist in the bunch, surprise..he won. Dur. One talented older painter went home because she wouldn't play their dumb game and I couldn't blame her. Some of them hadn't ever read the book they were supposed to illustrate. WTF? I hope that untrained guy wins, he's good. But, I'll betcha Miles wins. He has OCD and likes to burn things and take long naps. The judges are pretentious bungs who couldn't paint their own asshole with a magnifying mirror and they love Miles. He reminds me of those douchebags who sucked up in art classes by pretending to have a disdain for the entire world. All they did was roll their eyes, smoke French ciggies and turn in giant abstracts of their friend's penis's. Next weeks assignment is "shock art." Give me and Marilyn Manson a break.
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I have never heard of it until now. Thanks
DD I have to check this out. - Kiki :)
DD - thank goodness I'm not alone in watching this total dreck of a show.
The premise is ridiculous to begin with - after all, isn't "one man's trash is another man's treasure"? - how they can even begin to judge this stuff is beyond me.
And what was with the kid lying on the platform "bed"?! And he won?!Was this performance art? If so, where's Lady GaGa when you need a real judge?
I hope this show doesn't turn out to be a total dreamkiller for these aspiring artists - it's one thing to get booted 'cause your Top Chef food turned out to taste like crap.
It's another thing for people to stand in front of an art piece that you've created and call it crap and send you home.
I taped this but haven't watched it yet. I used to work in an art gallery/frame shop so I met a lot of artists. Most were assholes, some were interesting, all were CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP! All of them wanted a discount on framing and framing materials, ALL of them wanted to hang their crap in our gallery for free, ALL of them were picky about EVERYTHING with their frame jobs and some expected discounts for every little thing.
Have to say, artists are odd. I mean honestly, if you can master oil paints or watercolors, why can't you manage to cut your own matboards?
WTF indeed! You always either get to read the book or get a summary of what it is about. Not being able to do that is like shooting yourself in the leg just before running in a marathon. I wanted to see this too, to see how they were going to decide who the next great artist is. When & where is it on? Oh man I can't stand the artists that sound like this Miles fellow sounds & definitely can't stand the pretentious people that hover around the artist of the day or week or whatever. The vain distainers! And the eye rolling, oh gawd, the eye rolling! Such nauseating phonies & they sit around, sipping white wine & consider themselves so terribly, terribly sophisticated & avant-garde, aaahhhhhhhh!!!! Okay, I feel better now. I'll still have to take a look at it.
Cynthia, that dude was Miles. He's too cool for school, I guess.
Sally, I can cut my own matboards. :)
OT:
who sent me mail for DD? i have gotten something from Vicki and Kiki....anyone else??
email me: misstiaemail@yahoo.com
miss tia ~ sent you an email
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