The ShameFaced Remostrator
(anagram of the massacre of modern art)

digital collaboration with George Tesseleneu of Romania
George sent me the three layered skull and i build up the whole picture to place his piece on it...

My utter distaste for modern art, is now avenged....

fave here--->

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'The important thing to remember in all this is that artistic talent had
become, strictly speaking, non-essential. It helped, but promotion by a
good publicist helped more. The artist had to be a showman rather than a
skilled craftsman.

The ...successful
contemporary artist needs to be a person devoid of moral scruples.
Confidence trickster, hustler, prostitute, pimp, he needs to mix with
the right crowd and know whom to cultivate. “The artist who would be
known,” wrote the great folklorist Joseph Campbell, “has to go to
cocktail parties to win commissions, and those who win them are not in
their studios but at parties, meeting the right people and appearing in
the right places.” Campbell was later accused of anti-Semitism, but
Jewish artist Julian Schnabel backs up Campbell’s claim. “Much time is
spent nurturing liaisons with creatures of the art world,” he notes
gloomily. “There is no time for friendship. Later, there is no capacity
for it.”How does a really talented artist succeed in such a rat race?Painter
Helen Frankenthaler had to sleep with art critic Clement Greenberg, but
it was worth it: Greenberg gave her good reviews. Willem de Kooning let
his wife Elaine bed down with art critic Harold Rosenberg, but it was
worth it: Rosenberg gave de Kooning good reviews. Jackson Pollock had to
pleasure nymphomaniac Peggy Guggenheim, but it was worth it: her
patronage helped to get Pollock good reviews. After all, her daddy owned
the Guggenheim Museum. None of these artists slept around for
love. They did it for money. Jackson Pollock famously said of Peggy
Guggenheim, his plutocratic patroness: “To fuck her, you’d have to put a
towel over her head. And she did want fucking.”Be prepared to
prostitute yourself if you’re a woman or pimp your wife if you’re a man.
Be prepared to do a Piss Christ like Andres Serrano or a pornographic
Holy Virgin Mary like Chris Ofili. Be prepared, like Grayson Perry, to
dress up as a woman and produce sexually perverted pots. Be prepared to
pull a paper scroll out of your vagina like Carolee Schneemann. Be
prepared, like Vito Acconci, to titillate a jaded public by masturbating
for them in a prestigious art gallery — and calling it ‘art’. Let
art critic Clement Greenberg have the last word: “I’ve decided the kind
of people attracted to art are often psychopaths. You can quote me on
that.” "