even the worst art looks better than the best spreadsheet
who knows the difference between art and fart?... (since 1921, at least)
‘A great artist is always before his time or behind it’ - George Edward Moore
‘We have art in order not to die of the truth’ - Nietzsche
21st century f.Art
[not giving up the day job any time soon. still, better than watching tv]
A Poster for a Likely Reality Horror Show in the Near Future
Mainly Political satire in digital Collages as a record of an age of unreason 2014 - ongoing
The state of affairs can hardly get any worse but we must find the time to laugh in whichever way we can,.. it is the only way to keep sane!
Artists are the lungs of humanity. it helps usn breathe together. even bad art is still much better than gossiping about neighbour’s uncut lawn, your colleague's bad haircut, or discussing the latest hike in interest rates. or house prices! Everyone should have a go at it.. as a way out of mediocre respectability, which, in my view, is the graveyard of the soul. be free. be mad. do 'shocking' things... but be nice. Even to those who are not very nice, if you can! They're probably not as bad as they seem. we just don't know their story.
'Art helps me stay in love with the world' - Jeremy Deller
Crazy Posters mostly mocking our post truth age of unreason. Some may find them cheeky, mad, or even offensive although this is not the intention. They are meant to look absurd to describe an age full of absurdities we seem to be getting used to.
Carlos Almaraz - great art and life full of all sorts of things.. a beautiful and complicated soul. How own and his art’s journey are so unique and beautiful. I can’t believe I only discovered him in 2023!!!
Experimenting with AI - Iam not quite sure what to think about it
What is an old barber’s seat for? Asked Jean Paul Sartre one Saturday morning as he was formulating existentialist theory…
Then he played some Flamenco while thinking about the meaning of life
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I am not sure if it was a blessing or a curse when I discovered digital painting during lockdown… I’ve developed an addiction in creating strange things that can mean so many things and nothing at the same time… and I am not sure if I can look at them objectively ;))) The biggest problem I’m finding is not knowing when to stop as possibilities are infinite… and I am not a great fan of too much abstraction as we often risk turning art into an obscure activity to indulge only the desires of its creator, creating all kinds of theories about creations that could potentially by doodles…
Also funny to see totally different reactions from my friends in Kosovo, who remember me being quite arty farty at school so they’re all cheering me on and my British friends who only know me as a waiter-dogooder-commissioner-trollop and are quite bewildered to see a stream of stuff that may look lilr midlife crisis. This was donr by painting the first three layers ‘by hand’ on Adobe Fresco then shoving a wrecking ball in new the layers, plus multiple manipulations with colour intensity et voila…nous avons une peinture.. ou… peut-être non? 😂😂😂.
Whatever it is, one can see the influence of Byzantine Art, which shaped our part of the world for 1700 years..
Nigel Farage is like England’s genital warts, while Boris Johnson and the rest of the Tories are the cancer of the soul. I call them Cancervatives.
We can beat Cancervatives.
asafo flags - western africa
pattern design by silkroadbex @ spoonflower.com
This is very addictive!!
History of art in a England is very interesting story… even today, when London is an undisputed epicentre of art for the entire workd, art is somehow ‘foreign’… attention seeking, loud, in your face.. not my-cuppa-tea sort of thing… (for most people, whose love of down-to-earthism takes highest place on the national psyche)
would truth kill us if we didn’t have art ? As Nietzsche believed…
life is utterly absurd and mostly meaningless; fine by me. art is the best way to play with pointless human obsessions, beliefs and (self) deceptions, n’est-ce pas? I think the absurdity of life that makes every moment of living it worthwhile …. If we don’t play, we’re just waiting to die … not the best way to spend this short time we have so let’s play as if every day was the last.
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So another year of general confusion in the so called western world passed. Trump, that grotedque creature was elected as president again in a country that does't deserve to have so much power in the world because it is profoundly flawed and brutal place built on fantastical national narratives which basically narrow down to the greatness of white Protestant colonisers in one way or another. The whole thing about America is so tasteless and tawdry but it keeps fooling its very uneducated citizens with a relentless stream of propaganda! America was NEVER great. The poor Americans need to stop listining to nonsense and check the facts. Trump is a perfect symptom of a rapid decline of an evil empire! It will cling on for a few more decades but America is over! With it Europe too but we could perhaps play it smarter... Que sera, sera.
2025 (God Help Us!) Fuckety Fuck! Trump and Musk Want to Rule the World!! A narcissistic sociopath and criminal and a super weird creature that no one really knows or understands! There is something very un-human about Musk. His eyes are void... soulless. Trump's soul is in his pinky but at least he has one!
Have we entered the last decade of the so called Western Civilisation before it collapses under the weight of the fantasy it has created about itself, for itself and around itself? I am pretty sure the bubble of a hyper consumerist society that relies on perpetuating global inequality so that it can stay on top through printing money out of thin air will burst! It has to... regardless of how loud the fascist pair scream! It is over. Not even two billionaires can fix our deep problems that have come to bite us... This is the end of Reagan's and Thatcher's dark ideology! .
Trump is obviously a total embarrassment to all humanity but, in all his madness, he probably isn't evil! He is too stupid and self centred to think about doing evil for the sake of it... In so many ways, the 'normal' politicians in the west that we are so used to are probably a lot more evil! They have started all the wars all over the world so that it is perpetually destabilised, in need of western 'civilised' people to teach everyone how to run their savage countries! As weird as it sounds, Trump may, in fact, be good for the world but he is a disaster for the west... and perhaps this is a good thing. We are doing a lot of evil things around the world and perhaps its time for us to taste the crap!
The next two decades will be crucial in world history! UK will probably be the first civilised domino to fall in its own hole, then the rest of the so called civilised first world nations! It is sad that so many people will suffer as they genuinely don't know what our governments do but there isn't much that can be done! The collapse is happening now but it is still well hidden from most people, who have been brought up to believe in our superiority and indestructibility! It won't be pretty when it all starts collapsing in a more obvious way that the so called ordinary people will be able to see and feel. The fall of the Western Civilisation is within a decade or two at the most... we have no one else to blame but ourselves. Privilege turned us into monsters.
April
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russia - россия (the troubled old bear)
By wanting to disrupt the so-called west due to his psychotic obsessions, Putin is causing much more damage to Russia, whose reputation and long term future will be stained by this unprovoked aggression on Ukraine. I wish Russians would wake up and realise what this psychopath is doing to their country
Желая разрушить так называемый Запад из-за своих психотических навязчивых идей, Путин наносит гораздо больший ущерб России, чья репутация и долгосрочное будущее будут запятнаны этой ничем не спровоцированной агрессией против Украины. Я хочу, чтобы русские проснулись и поняли, что этот психопат делает с их страной!
will we finally lose our feudal system? not sure. patriots seem to love the panto show, despite their centuries old social attitudes of the very posh people towards the populace as unclean, vulgar commoners one must allow to breathe without being able to bill them for breathing the great English air (currently not yet rationed).
greyson perry
Started off as a great quirky artist but is now becoming the Mary Berry of English art. I say English on purpose as it’s all seems too obsessed with England… this new obsession of that is probably not that new but it now is much more in your face. It’s very boring. I couldn’t care less about various little neuroses and fears of the ex empire… it’s all so inward looking and sclerotic. I shall rescind him with other mainstream UK artists who become a national treasure. Next….
politics of hysteria
remembering all the houses I’ve lived 1969-80 (burnt down), 1980-94 (sold by parents), 1995-97 london #paintingfrommemory
The children of Palestine are the children of the whole world! They are the righful owners of Palestine, which they will be able to reclaim and rebuild from brutal colonisers that are doing their best to wipe them off their own homeland1 They will not succeed - Palestine will be free!
Countdown to the Liberation of Palestine
Liberation of Palestine is inevitable and it is likely to happen sooner than later! The shameful colonisation and perpetual war of Israel, backed up by the rogue USA and its satellites aka 'the free world' is unsustainable and impossible both financially and militarily! Israel has shown clearly and shamelessly that its modus operandi is inhuman, criminal and genocidal. It is the last outpost of white colonisation of lands westerners think they are entitled to rule and exploit in the name of their 'superior' civilisation, which is, in fact, a blatant distortion of facts and reasons to justify their criminal actions.
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