Macaulay Culkin ~ artist.

  On 9/20/2012 at 8:31 PM, jefferoo said:

The way he uses color on the bottom pattern (I think there is a technical term for this kind of exercise in art school, but I don't know) is actually really pleasing to look at.

Yes, that is kind of interesting, but it's not the point. And if it is, there's a lot of noise distracting from it.

  On 9/20/2012 at 8:31 PM, jefferoo said:

It is also interesting how he uses pop icons and zeitgeists in his work, as he is one of them.

I completely disagree with this, even if he is one of them. It was interesting when and how Basquiat did it but not anymore. Everything may very well be a reference to everything else but now this is such a banal, cliched aspect of postmodernism that it almost always seems cheesy to do this in such an obvious way.

  On 9/20/2012 at 7:45 PM, david said:

The Death Star, an upside-down Macaulay Culkin cubist head, and a Steven Tyler doppelganger hang above a barren landscape of broken amusement park rides. The mysteries of the jungle rest in the background

YES

Some people really enjoy having their buttons pushed I guess? You're making it too easy for them, fellas.

  On 9/20/2012 at 8:37 PM, sweepstakes said:

  On 9/20/2012 at 8:31 PM, jefferoo said:

The way he uses color on the bottom pattern (I think there is a technical term for this kind of exercise in art school, but I don't know) is actually really pleasing to look at.

Yes, that is kind of interesting, but it's not the point. And if it is, there's a lot of noise distracting from it.

 

 

  On 9/20/2012 at 8:31 PM, jefferoo said:

It is also interesting how he uses pop icons and zeitgeists in his work, as he is one of them.

I completely disagree with this, even if he is one of them. It was interesting when and how Basquiat did it but not anymore. Everything may very well be a reference to everything else but now this is such a banal, cliched aspect of postmodernism that it almost always seems cheesy to do this in such an obvious way.

Firstly, I never said that was the point. I was stating there was an actual exercise in art school for that sort of thing. That's all.

Secondly, how can you disagree with the fact I find something interesting?

Lastly, Basquiat wasn't an icon of his era, prior to his success as an artist.

I appreciate your opinion. Try to express it without degrading mine.

  On 9/20/2012 at 8:43 PM, jefferoo said:

Firstly, I never said that was the point.

But you pointed it out. How does it contribute to what the piece is expressing? Or is this a naive question to ask in 2012?

  On 9/20/2012 at 8:43 PM, jefferoo said:

Secondly, how can you disagree with the fact I find something interesting?

You didn't say "I find it it interesting that". You said "It is also interesting". The difference is subtle and you could argue that its status as your subjective opinion is implied, but you could also argue otherwise. I don't find it interesting, is what I'm trying to say.

  On 9/20/2012 at 8:43 PM, jefferoo said:

Lastly, Basquiat wasn't an icon of his era, prior to his success as an artist.

This isn't relevant to my appreciation of the work, but perhaps it is to yours.

  On 9/20/2012 at 8:43 PM, jefferoo said:

I appreciate your opinion. Try to express it without degrading mine.

I wasn't trying to degrade you and I apologize if I came off that way. My opinion of this work is apparently much different from yours, that's all.

weird lol. i say do your thing macaulay

Yeah, cos the ocean of piss isn't full enough.

i remixed the gif from the article

lol

lol

lmao

  On 9/20/2012 at 11:42 AM, YO303 said:

"Cast o' Seinfield"

What is the meaning if this?

it looks like they are just having fun guys.

  On 9/20/2012 at 9:10 PM, sweepstakes said:

Yeah, cos the ocean of piss isn't full enough.

why are you so bitter?

hey guys

guys

i think they are just having fun and painting funny shit.

no! I hate him because he was famous! I won't recognize his humanity until he's died for that sin!

  On 9/21/2012 at 2:35 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

i think they are just having fun and painting funny shit.

why have an exhibition if it's just for fun?

because hipsters like that shit

That is the most curmudgeonly thing I've seen on here in a while, even coming from you. What's a good reason to have an exhibition then?

ugh huff puff it's not real art, not like in my day huff puff ugh

At least it's something different compared to the branding bullshit most celebs partake in. Shit like this:

Seems a lot of celebrities just use their name/image and everything else is someone else's work. I'd be nice to see people with fame promote being creative in general, even if they suck at it.

I like it because they don't seem the least bit pretentious about it (as far as I can detect).

  On 9/21/2012 at 3:04 PM, Iain C said:

That is the most curmudgeonly thing I've seen on here in a while, even coming from you. What's a good reason to have an exhibition then?

 

ugh huff puff it's not real art, not like in my day huff puff ugh

haha. come on if it was just for fun these 3 would just be chuckling like beavis and butthead in the privacy of culkin's drawing room but they think it's important enough to show the world. having an exhibition suggests they think people want to see it, and will buy it... which they undoubtedly will.

i don't think i said it wasn't real art... i said it was shite, which it is, in my opinion... i also didn't suggest that art was better in my day whatever that means... obviously just some strange dig at my age from an angry young whippersnapper.

I guess I don't really buy the idea that art has to be deathly-serious or made with po-faced, pious intentions in order to be worth exhibiting. THAT'S pretentiousness in my opinion. These guys have made some funny, wacky paintings, now they want to show them to the world. I really don't see the problem.

Think of it as the funny MS Paint thread or whatever. Sure you could sit in your smelly bedroom chuckling at the crudely-drawn picture of Joyrex rocketing into the sky, leaving a contrail of shite and farts behind him... but it's much funnier to post it here so we can all have a good laugh.