January 5, 2010

• New Art Movements I’m sure most artists overlook.

  I’ve said before that no new art is being made, and that’s not entirely true. It’s just that for now art above ground is the same post-modernist steel poles in a field of red that is selling to people to put over their couches. Real art is still being made underground, but it’s kind of more art with a point, or taking art into its most basic elements and trying to chase something unattainable. I find it very exciting. Here are some examples:

   - Energy Art movement: http://www.energyartmovement.org/ tries to boil the energy that comes off of a good painting into it’s purest form. Think of it as crack to old art’s cocaine. They call it “visual dynamism”.

   - Antagonist Movement: Just basically a swift kick to the ass of the art community. http://antagovision.com/manifesto/

   - Thinkism Art Movement: Oracalic, lots of symbolism, seems like the kind of art I do. http://www.thinkism.org/asp/founding.asp

   - Stuckism: A more crude version of Thinkism. http://www.stuckism.com/PaintingsList.html#Painting

   - Conscious Art: http://consciousart.org/Manifesto.html kind of sounds like the stuff my professor Kate was teaching us in Intro to Theatrical Design class. Art for the purposes of knowing that what you’re doing is indeed art.

  Wow, so what I guess I’m trying to say is that underground art has become pretentious and stuffy again, but only from a socio-political-conscious point of view.

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