In art school many students are asked to re-enact an old conceptual art piece that involves taking a poll of average Americans to find out what kind of paintings they like the most. The answer is always representation. They like the trick of it. They like representation of animals, landscapes or historical figures. My own informal poll over time - done in my head - has found representation is coveted along a conservative political spectrum. One of the most well known representational painters today, John Currin, is a Republican. Hitler was a straightforward representational painter. Painting representation - often hyperreal or photorealistic today - is equivalent to that mid-American conservative consumer / capitalist / puritan demand art have some kind of proof of work and a trick that makes viewing into a known quantity. George W. Bushs paintings back up this theory.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 22:15:42 +0000
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