Comments on: Danish artist paints over famous art

by: Jen

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:05:27 +0000

I think it’s wonderful that he pisses so many people off. Kinda silly because he spent $600 000 of, I assume, His own money. I bet if I was given enough time to think on what I’m rambling about it I could find a way of pissing that many people off for less. It’s not really all that original either and anyone that plays god with goldfish is just a turd. Poor goldfish. Poor psychos… Bottomline. I think he’s pleasently silly

PS I’m in an overheated school computer lab with no caffiene so i aplogize if this isn’t entirely in english or even relevant.

by: Nicole

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:03:50 +0000

Oh! And if they weren’t of any value to anyone, he wouldn’t of spent 2.8 million crowns on something so invaluable.

If he wants to modernize paintings, make his own rendition of what he would of done.

by: Nicole

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:02:29 +0000

Makes me wish some ‘tard paints over his paintings. How disrespectful!

Isn’t he enough of an artist to do his OWN paintings on his OWN canvas?

He spent 2.8 million crowns to buy those paintings, I’m SURE he could afford canvas and an idea of his own.

by: Salena

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:00:59 +0000

Sev,

Love it.

Everyone else:

What’s done is done. If he felt the need to destroy others work then one can only hope that somewhere down the line a group of art revivalists will paint over his work the original design in an attempt to bring back the mid-20th century art. Ah, the irony of that, it would be glorious.

Now if only he will create a human-sized working blender for himself.

by: Sev

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:01:54 +0000

Bear in mind I was very pissed off about unrelated matters when I wrote that.

But I stand by the use of the name “Dickweed von Lichtenstein.”

by: Sev

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:42:01 +0000

Canvas isn’t that bloody hard to come by. Make your own damn paintings.

So much of art is snobbery for snobbery’s sake. The statement “The COBRA paintings today are trivial and deathly banal” is a clear sign of idiocy. Art improves in quality of technique, but not in content. You are not wiser than those who came before you. You’re just better tuned to the assumptions of your own time; obviously, they hadn’t seen our time yet. The sort of Whig History that contends man progresses towards a goal, improving with each epoch, is the worst and most dangerous sort of bullshit.

My point is, Dickweed von Lichtenstein isn’t a better artist than the COBRA folks simply because he doesn’t like their paintings. If he’s such a good painter, he shouldn’t have to ride their coattails. The fact is, he’s not a great painter. He’s just a showoff. He flaunts his wealth and his irreverence.

Blech, say I.

by: Jan

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:27:18 +0000

Pfh. The interesting art in Denmark at the moment (or, well, a few months ago) was the competition drawings by Jørgen Bitsch for the Iranian Government’s competition on holocaust-drawings. Sorry, don’t have an english source at hand, but some Jews were all up in arms about this, calling it ‘holocaust-denials’ and anti-semitic, making obvious their hypocrisy and bigotry.
http://www.humanisme.dk/joergen_bitsch.htm
If you ask really nicely, I might get more sourced material on it.

by: Dan Beeston

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:43:14 +0000

The best art is transitory. Bubbles, body art, explosions.
I knew of one guy who’d do these fantastic paintings and once he was finished he’d paint over them using a single matt colour. They were always better in his memory than the actual piece.

Appreciate, be inspired by, Love,..

And then move along.

Art that isn’t transitory isn’t about art, it’s about money.

by: fungi

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:41:10 +0000

obviously he just wants attention, he could’ve much easily got his hands on some hi-res captures and made prints on a receptive texture paper and did his thing.
but since this is art in the loosest terms he can carry out his objectives with IDEAS (aka hype) rather than content, and working in ideas he can’t very well paint over reproductions, it’s gotta be the real thing. if he really cared about his work, working off reproductions would be just fine, but then nobody would care.

(also this fish thing sounds retarded, although i’d be down if it was him sitting behind a plexi-glass display case maliciously feeding gold fish into the machine for hours at a time)