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Visual Art Currently Hanging
Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:03 AM
A Good Day by Michael Godard
On the amazing, amazing web site of Michael Godard, Rock Star of the Art World.
(Brought to you courtesy of Fnarf.)
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I knew you'd like it. How could you not?
Though I personally prefer the one with the martini olive playing the saxophone.
Though I personally prefer the one with the martini olive playing the saxophone.
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@4, olives shooting craps or playing blackjack isn't good enough for you?
http://www.michaelgodard.com/components/…
http://www.michaelgodard.com/components/…
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@6 only if it's painted on black velvet and sold out of the back of a white van on the side of the road. i have very, very particular taste.
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You can buy giclee prints of this crap at a number of galleries throughout the U.S. - if yer willing to spend a ton of cash on what amounts to a glossed over print. This guy is nothing more than a "hipster" Kincade - without the marketing juggernaut.
How soon before the Olives get their own animated special?
How soon before the Olives get their own animated special?
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please, fnarf thinks that the monkees were the pinnacle of culture and music in the 60s. Is it any wonder he likes silly paintings?
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His bio says he is the #1 best selling artist in the U.S. Is that true? And @8- I don't think you know what a hipster is, unless you were using the term faceciously.
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You can have your "bar inside a garage paintings" and monkees on the jukebox. I just think theyre both schlock.
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There's no way he's really #1; Kinkade has to be higher. And of course no one seriously tracks this, or can even say what it means; is it by total dollars, number of paintings, number of reproductions?
I think his market is a very particular kind of "hipster" -- the well-heeled NBA baller, rock star, hip-hopper, high-stakes gambler -- or wannabe. All you need is a complete and total lack of taste or discernment or cultural interest. After all, it's not the paintings that suck so much as it is the absolute banality, the vacuum of content, in them. If your cultural interests center around cocktails, cigars, dice, and stacks of bills, maybe "art" isn't the word we're looking for here.
I hear Ozzie Osbourne is a big fan.
I think his market is a very particular kind of "hipster" -- the well-heeled NBA baller, rock star, hip-hopper, high-stakes gambler -- or wannabe. All you need is a complete and total lack of taste or discernment or cultural interest. After all, it's not the paintings that suck so much as it is the absolute banality, the vacuum of content, in them. If your cultural interests center around cocktails, cigars, dice, and stacks of bills, maybe "art" isn't the word we're looking for here.
I hear Ozzie Osbourne is a big fan.
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"I think his market is a very particular kind of "hipster" -- the well-heeled NBA baller, rock star, hip-hopper, high-stakes gambler -- or wannabe. All you need is a complete and total lack of taste or discernment or cultural interest. After all, it's not the paintings that suck so much as it is the absolute banality, the vacuum of content, in them. If your cultural interests center around cocktails, cigars, dice, and stacks of bills, maybe "art" isn't the word we're looking for here."
You are DEAD on. We had some friends that dragged us to his "gallery" (ie, retail store) in a mall and oohed and aahed for way too long. They were definitely his target market and it was totally gross and also scary....
You are DEAD on. We had some friends that dragged us to his "gallery" (ie, retail store) in a mall and oohed and aahed for way too long. They were definitely his target market and it was totally gross and also scary....
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Huh? I don't see anything amazing. The website, the artist and the artwork are just completely banal.
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It's FUNNY, yuiop. FUNNY. Doesn't anyone understand funny anymore? I can't believe I have to explain this to people.
Especially you, BA. You think these paintings are schlock? Really? What was your first clue? The parallel with the Monkees is ridiculously inapt. Unless you think Pet Sounds is schlock too.
Especially you, BA. You think these paintings are schlock? Really? What was your first clue? The parallel with the Monkees is ridiculously inapt. Unless you think Pet Sounds is schlock too.
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"Today Michael Godard is considered one of the most prolific and influential artists of our time."
haha.
haha.
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Pet Sounds is schlock. So is Blonde on Blonde, and they were released the same day (BOB in the states).
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BA is just being cranky, as usual.
Do you think the olives trade off smoking the cigar, or is one olive always the one holding it while the other smokes?
Do you think the olives trade off smoking the cigar, or is one olive always the one holding it while the other smokes?
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this guy is such a poser. i saw an episode of Inked once where he showed up to get a goth sleeve tattooed in time for a convention. He got the entire thing done in one go, presumably to lend more cred to his art. Anyone who is selling this generic tripe at the dumbass overpriced galleries in the mall is definitely a poser.
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Yeah, I saw a few of his things in the Northgate mall four years ago.
It's like the adult equivalent of the poster malls of college.
It's like the adult equivalent of the poster malls of college.
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De Gustibus Non Disputadem. He laughs at you actual "artists" in between snorting lines off the labia of Pron Stars.
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and seriously, just because people that worked on pet sounds worked on monkees albums doesn't mean pet sounds = monkees. thank god you don't follow college football, you'd take the transitive property to a whole new level.
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