[shinji69]

Yes, I suggest a new art movement for all the artists out there.

It's called Irony(ism).

It's a form of art that concentrates on ironical (and ridiculous) subject matters represented with fairly realistic manner. For example, parodies of existing art like academic realism or abstract expressionism and such. I want to suggest a form of art that concentrates on the subject matter than methods, which should be realistic to deliver the maximum narrative effect. Such as...

1. A reactionary artwork inspired by Gerome's Slave Market, which adds a GI looking at the scene of slave market for a distance. (probably an Army Paratrooper or Marine grunt)

2. Another reactionary piece of Gerome's 'Slave Auction' scene where one of the bidders flashes a credit card.

3. Civilized black people encounters white people in grass skirts and shrunken heads.

4. A French court scene filled with rednecks.

5. Perseus rescues Andromeda from a GIANT DILDO.

6. A parody of any classical paintings that all characters are replaced with PORN STARS.

7. A scene from Spanish Inquisition where a poor alien gets strapped and tortured by Jesuit thugs.

8. Michelangelo's paintings upgraded with BIGGER DONGS.

9. David got an erection.

10. Chewbacca molests Osama Bin Laden in a Greek academy.

11. Odalesque greeted by frat boys flashing their bare butts and pissing in the court.

12. Jesus with M-60 and super abs kicks ass the Jewish priests and Roman soldiers replaced with Italian mafia.

13. All classical female nude paintings 'upgraded' with....eh....pubic hair and....CAMEL TOE.

14. Portrait of Ron Jeremy as Louis XIV.

15. Trailer Park: Pre-Raphaelite style.

16. Shotgun toting redneck invades (put any places in classical painting)

17. Picasso and Sargent fight in DOA style, painted with Boogey style.

Hmm... I am running out of idea. Can somebody join this great new art movement?

[Steven Stahlberg]

LOL
Don't know if that can be called 'running out of ideas'...

I'm empty right now, all I can think of is communist propaganda painting and sculpture would make a great source to parody...

[Anthony]

Are you sure your ideas aren't better suited to the newly formed Parodyism movement? Most of them don't seem terribly ironic. ;]

[Ahcri]

Some of the ideas have been done before, I have seen someone painted the trailer park in pre-raephilite style, and I have seen someone painted The Last Supper subsituting everyone from the original painting with some sort of boy scouts(??). And what you seems to be doing here is rejecting values from the past, which has also been done before. Good try though.

[Steven Stahlberg]

Frostfyre, you have a point, but I think internet forums are so much more than what the old salons could ever be.

[Nathan Marciniak]

I don't think you can "suggest" an art movement or say "Hey let's create a new art movement!" They just happen. Artists start doing stuff in a certain style then someone comes along and gives it a name.

Take a look at the "Low Brow" art scene and you will find many of these same concepts being executed. These are not new ideas, satire has always been around in one form or another.

MAD Magazine alone has produced hundreds of satirical paintings in the style of famous artists throughout the years. For example: "Great Moments in Medicine" by Kelly Freas in said magazine. This one is a send-up in a Norman Rockwell style.



These are all moderately funny ideas for paintings, so why don't you get to work on one of them!

[ November 18, 2001: Message edited by: Nathan Marciniak ]

[frostfyre]

I wonder if the gathering of all these artists into online communities isn't somewhat similar to old "art salon" movements. We are informed, inspired, and educated by one another on this board, and on many others. Could it be that the "Sijun" school of thought is a movement in and of itself? Along with the Spiraloid school, the Lumental school, etc, etc, ad infinitum?

As far as I can tell, never has it been so easy to participate in an international conversation on the arts, with people who share the same passion for art, and who are almost all full time practicioners. Isn't that what the old salons did?

Of course, I could simply be mad...