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Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Sun April 17, 2016 3:10 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
spike wrote:posting while masturbating
i don't think i could focus enough to do that

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

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Sun April 17, 2016 3:19 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Sun April 17, 2016 3:38 pm
by spike
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
spike wrote: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

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Fri October 06, 2017 7:28 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Fri October 06, 2017 7:29 pm
by epilogue
It is not.

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Fri October 06, 2017 7:40 pm
by BurtReynolds
Brutalism is my favorite ism.

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Fri October 06, 2017 8:48 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Fri October 06, 2017 8:55 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote: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.

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Fri October 06, 2017 8:55 pm
by epilogue
Also, when I look at your post it just says "image." So, you see, my post was quite humorous.

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Fri October 06, 2017 9:44 pm
by Jorge
It's cool. I like it.

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Fri October 06, 2017 10:13 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Fri October 06, 2017 10:23 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:
theplatypus wrote: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?!

Re: Art criticism thread for nerds

Posted: Wed October 25, 2017 7:29 pm
by Jorge
BurtReynolds wrote: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.”)