Art criticism thread for nerds

[lennytheweedwhacker]

posting while masturbating

i don't think i could focus enough to do that

what's your posting to mast*rbation ratio, spike?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[spike]

posting while masturbating

i don't think i could focus enough to do that

what's your posting to mast*rbation ratio, spike?

the sheer amount of data is overwhelming

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

It is not.

[BurtReynolds]

Brutalism is my favorite ism.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

You're too kind to appreciate brutalist art. Just let us unfeeling monsters have our doom fountain, durds.

I was just being an art critic, trag.

[epilogue]

Also, when I look at your post it just says "image." So, you see, my post was quite humorous.

[Jorge]

It's cool. I like it.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

It's cool. I like it.

Suck it durds.

No, you're right

image

is a great piece of art. How could I not appreciate it at first glance?!

[Jorge]

This thread is intended to be a receptacle for posts dedicated to the philosophy, practice and merits of art criticism in all its forms: music, film, painting, etc..

I think this fits here.

Ever Wonder Why Rolling Stone Gives So Many Raves to Washed-Up Rockers? A New Book Reveals All

https://slate.com/arts/2017/10/the-jann ... iewed.html

He’s long given certain stars the right to edit their own interviews before going to press, and the line between criticism and hagiography has frequently blurred, particularly as Wenner and his favorite artists have aged. See this five-star review of Mick Jagger’s 2001 solo effort Goddess in the Doorway, penned by the publisher himself, or more recently, the time Rolling Stone declared U2’s eminently forgettable Songs of Innocence the best album of 2014. Hagan reveals that Wenner demanded the ranking personally. (“My dictate. By fiat, buddy. That’s that.”)