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Several articles on art (with uppercase and lowercase)

This weekend, while tending to Manuela smallish (5 months already, how time flies) and I could not paint, I went to read a few articles that had strayed "to read later" and never found time to do so.
With the first, I almost died laughing so had the author, and had not seen in any other medium. It was published in Millennium (a Mexican magazine), and is Lespa Avelina, a well known art critic. In it, he relates how two Chinese artists ( Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi ) decided to take to end the interaction with works of art Duchamp and Tracey Emin ( which spoke some other days and as you understand, not my cup of tea - although I must admit that the girl knows how to draw, but for some strange reason, do not feel like it and prefers to put his unmade bed in the exhibition. I guess you have to win the lentils and the drawing will not insurers). These good men were real utility to the famous bed Emin, and the Duchamp urinal : almohadanazos is bundled with the first, and urinated on the second ballot. I thought it was figuratively urinate, but no, the guys left everything lost (see photo). And I almost fell off my chair with the scene described the criticism:

Yuan Chai said position martial attack "Kung Fu" We are artists, we wanted to work from Emin. " The two Chinese

just passed my pantheon of idols which machines!

And it turns out that the good Tracey Emin became a rage when he learned they had broken his unmade bed, and I suppose that Duchamp would turn in his grave. But that, says Lespa :

"Wetting and register almohadazos is not art, but neither is a dirty bed or a urinal, then why did the Chinese are doing is a criminal attack? What never specify is how far you can react and if it is valid under provocation or insult. "

The installation artists claim that people react to his work, and when really they do, they get unhappy. As Marina Abramovic and her latest exhibition-performance" The artist is present " : this good woman sits in a chair (to $ 1,000 an hour) and wait for someone to sit in one that is in front of it. It also aims to get people to react to his "work". But yes, as you react to mind the charges, because the Navy friend is with a pair of security officer to each hand in case anyone thinks of art contribute to touching or talking to her. Come, let us react, but safe, or as the artist wants us to react: quietly and paying the entry.

Another interesting article is that of Jonathan Jones the Guardian . Jonathan , another critical figures today, and staunch advocate of modern art (installations and performances included), begins to wonder if the " Stuckists " not be right. Let's be clear: the " Stuckists " (something like "stuck", a kind of conservative, but way, art) are similar to the " hartistas " English (from "tired" of modern art), and in my opinion are too Taliban in their views, although I agree in his attack on all the trash that appears recently and the "anything goes" . No, especially not as it says it Jones :

If you reject the notion That physical skill, natural talent Technical Training or have any value as art in Themselves, Then Are painters screwed (if you reject the concept of physical ability, natural talent or technical training have some value as art in themselves, then we can give painters annoyed).

novelist not win the Booker prize dog Without Being Able to write. But if you said all artists Must Be Able to draw, You'd Be Laughed at. (no novelist can win the Booker prize without being able to write. But if you can say that all artists should be able to draw, would laugh at you.)

And this coming from someone who swears off traditional art, but has all the reason in this article. Already one of the points of "hartistas" with which I identify himself, said:

8. We are tired of things that need to submit stories and explanations. If this is necessary is that is not art. The speech did not change the object. And again

Avelina explained in an earlier article in the manifest Hartista Millennium:

I want to add that I'm sick of mediocrity, banality, contempt for the majesty, the rise of trash and lack of ideas, rather than explaining the work and to believe in anything blindly without question. Tired of these fragile and fickle ways that do not bear the slightest criticism. Fed up with the complicity and the gangs that support them. Tired of the unconscious of the damage it does to art only to protect the interests of people who despise technical work and creative will. Harta that the value is eschatology and barbarism. Tired and happy because I know that will not last, their emptiness sends them to oblivion.

I repeat: I love them and Velázquez Rothko. I like the figures of Schiele and Ingres. I love Saura, Jose Hernandez , almost all Barceló, Gordillo , Pérez Villalta and many other modern artists. But they are true artists. Do not use the language of consultants and curators: "To understand this you have to be a true connoisseur of art" (as they called the king naked), and hide behind statements about the function of art, cosmology, dialogue with the work and the stories of artists of people, the true artists just paint ... and they understand everything.