from blouinartinfo international, June 09, 2017
Meet Mr Maezawa – $110.5m Basquiat Buyer and Art World Hero
A man who made a billion dollars in the fashion industry buys himself fame and notoriety, becomes an ‘art world hero’ and gives big interviews, international no less, all because he committed a seven layer obscenity against humanity only a billionaire could afford. Good for you, so full of envy are we all. You have demonstrated through the medium of art how thoroughly remote you’ve become from the innocent school girls who made you so very rich, and everybody else. ‘With whatever is on this canvas I brand myself, becoming instantly famous, with a self-named museum for my trophy art coming soon,’ no really, such passion.
This isn’t about art at all, it’s about extreme wealth solely, and one of those markers of civic existence that suggests there are way too many rich people, just isn’t healthy, leads to gout in the extremities, make that severe deprivation. These pissing contests over art were graphically portrayed by a famous Warhol series in which the artist’s urine interacted with chemicals on copper plates, all green and crusty, so graphic, such genius. Fascinating in an ‘entertainment tonight’ sort of way, but as a planet undergoes political and ecological meltdown, who cares?
Meanwhile art supplies are being sold all over, and not just to hundred and ten million dollar geniuses -- lots of people are learning to paint. This is interesting because it isn’t easy. Oh the happy accident sort of abstraction isn’t so difficult, just have to stop short of obliteration is all, and could make you rich if you keep doing it, but there’s not much satisfaction in it. Translating something seen into its representation on a flat surface leaves a lot of room for interpretation, and when another person recognizes your horse or house or waterfall it feels pretty good, like some sort of direct connection or something.
Winston Churchill, famed british man of action, stated that planning and executing a painting was like pursuing a military campaign, better him to have said it, only much safer and more humane. The intelligence and perception it takes to make a painting, oddly enough, can be read back by the viewer, a message that remains fresh and vibrant, even if slightly beyond the range of words to describe it. Mr. Maezawa should give back most of that money a clever or lucky businessman, or any single human, may not entirely deserve, and buy some art that can be lived with -- join the human race.
Meet Mr Maezawa – $110.5m Basquiat Buyer and Art World Hero
A man who made a billion dollars in the fashion industry buys himself fame and notoriety, becomes an ‘art world hero’ and gives big interviews, international no less, all because he committed a seven layer obscenity against humanity only a billionaire could afford. Good for you, so full of envy are we all. You have demonstrated through the medium of art how thoroughly remote you’ve become from the innocent school girls who made you so very rich, and everybody else. ‘With whatever is on this canvas I brand myself, becoming instantly famous, with a self-named museum for my trophy art coming soon,’ no really, such passion.
This isn’t about art at all, it’s about extreme wealth solely, and one of those markers of civic existence that suggests there are way too many rich people, just isn’t healthy, leads to gout in the extremities, make that severe deprivation. These pissing contests over art were graphically portrayed by a famous Warhol series in which the artist’s urine interacted with chemicals on copper plates, all green and crusty, so graphic, such genius. Fascinating in an ‘entertainment tonight’ sort of way, but as a planet undergoes political and ecological meltdown, who cares?
Meanwhile art supplies are being sold all over, and not just to hundred and ten million dollar geniuses -- lots of people are learning to paint. This is interesting because it isn’t easy. Oh the happy accident sort of abstraction isn’t so difficult, just have to stop short of obliteration is all, and could make you rich if you keep doing it, but there’s not much satisfaction in it. Translating something seen into its representation on a flat surface leaves a lot of room for interpretation, and when another person recognizes your horse or house or waterfall it feels pretty good, like some sort of direct connection or something.
Winston Churchill, famed british man of action, stated that planning and executing a painting was like pursuing a military campaign, better him to have said it, only much safer and more humane. The intelligence and perception it takes to make a painting, oddly enough, can be read back by the viewer, a message that remains fresh and vibrant, even if slightly beyond the range of words to describe it. Mr. Maezawa should give back most of that money a clever or lucky businessman, or any single human, may not entirely deserve, and buy some art that can be lived with -- join the human race.
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