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...one, a man turning around with an acrylic pour. Now, this was a popular thing for a while, gives you an attractive product, but - it's a technique, not an end in itself.
Still I like to look at them, the variety of artist's studios, some of which are quite impressive and a heck of a lot more inspiring than the nuisance and hazards area I've set up in my living room...
Then there's the other ones, turning over their "painting a day" until they manage to sell it. I suppose, given the breadth of their audience, that sooner or later somebody has to take an interest...
"Turning over Painting #17 Until I find my Audience", which - I understand, everyone wants an audience, needs one if they hope to sell their work, but - the products, so often derivative examples of talent and competency but rarely possess anything approaching "ART", but they're right, if they've an audience they're probably on Facebook right now...
And one - this was brilliant, a studio set up in a living room, a forty-something handsome woman just "going for it" an a canvas, an actress (you'd hope) primed with words like "Passion" and "Energy" and "Ebullience" and "Inspired" and "Create" and all sorts of other bollocks has filmed herself in slow motion splashing the canvas with brushes in either hand, close up, pan back, wonky angle, damn woman is throwing herself on the canvas again, she's going to paint it with her tits through a sweater, somebody, please, ....
It's over the top, really, but, damned if despite the nice weather nobodies out digging up crystals or gems.
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Found this on my "recommended" list, YouTube, so naturally watched.
No real person had anything to do with it. The dialogue, written by an AI before it became I, voiced by a text-to-speech generator, images and videos largely unrelated to the minerals being shown, short irrelevant clips frequently at odds with the "information" being narrated.
I can't be bothered to link to it, I'm pretty sure you've come across something similar - garbage, generated solely for your consumption, without the the slightest human agency.
Somewhere, though, there's a bot making this stuff and building up a hefty bank account, to judge from the number of views...
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Another Outsider Artist, this one a retired Australian Maths Teacher who upon dying is discovered to have created thousands of artworks.
Links:
- https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102969272
- https://www.hamiltongallery.org/events/robert-martiensen-the-secret/
Think, if his sister hadn't called in somebody with a little more taste and appreciation this would have been lost. And I see it all the time at the thrift shop (fortunately, in my opinion, most of what's donated from these estates is rubbish. Most. But there's always the possibility of an outlier...
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Meanwhile, Taco Tuesday, Cantina's got a new artist up:
View her work here: https://maasa.ca/
A pretty slick site, I gotta say, although artists who need to make "statements" generally annoy me it seems pretty much the standard nowadays.
On that note, my website is due for a massive overhaul, only it needs so much work and I've left it sooo long that ...
Well, I'll get around to it I'm sure.
(File this under art & artists of the Kootenays)
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Local Art: The last art exhibit at cafe ***, "Meh", abstractions by someone that doesn't understand abstraction and can't paint figurative.
But there's a new series, and - well...
Wow. Pencil sketches with acrylic highlights on small Dollarama wooden boards, maybe a foot by a foot. Classic movie scenes, Jack Torrence from "The Shining", Michael Keaton in "Beetlejuice", One of "The Jokers". Bloody highlights are painted on with Dollorama Acrylics. I imagine a seriously deranged adolescent putting together this show.
I stopped posting artists of the Kootenays, work got in the way, but I have to pick this up again.
Then, a few days ago somebody puts a CD in my hand, I recognize the "CD Release Party" from a few weeks ago at the Capitol, I recognize the artist, seen him around, this town is filled with artists. Apparently he's very good...
Only I pop the CD in for a spin, I'm "lucky", my car has a CD Player, and...
...and...
Well, he's apparently very good at performing other people's stuff.
This, this was - imagine me, strumming competently, lightly on the guitar while I accompany it with an falsetto that extemporates upon local history; sort of a Led-Zepplin meets Lord of the Rings elves and fairies meets whacked-out-local-nut-job singing about his love of LSD and this particular girl whom I can only feel sorry for but she's probably just as addled. This for 10 songs, but you couldn't tell one apart from another, they're all the same, fiddling the guitar, singing about absolute shit, musically uninspired and lyrically abysmal, and I'm laughing, this is too good, this is hall-of-fame sort of shit, the kind of local talent that no one talks about, and I just figured out what my son is getting for his birthday....and damn, I'll have to buy one for you Nola as well...
It's at that point where it's so bad it's good, and I want to leap on board and recommend it to everyone I know, learn the lyrics to a couple of the songs, fortunately there's no real melody, hum it, sing it out loud at the bus stop, in the cafe's, those who get it will get it...