Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Visual Art As for the Death of Dash Snow
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:39 PM
The news came out this morning that the bad-boy artist/de Menil descendent died of an overdose. If I'm being honest, I have to say I sympathize with this commenter on NY Mag's Vulture:
What a sad, stupid cliché.By Alexj711 on 07/14/2009 at 2:33pm
I'm sorry for not being a better humanitarian.
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I had the displeasure of meeting Sace once...complete and total ass. He could have really done something with his life and art but he was so full of shit! I'm sort of glad he is dead.
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jacking off onto newspapers and calling it art is kind of a sad, stupid cliche as well. so there's that.
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God yes, too much trust fund "no one understands my pain" bullshit. Trite and entirely forgettable.
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Did you ever see his work in person? He was mostly known for his polaroids and the hamster cage – it was his own plan and doing that his life overshadowed his artwork – but his collages were some of the more exciting pieces I have ever seen, by anyone. It would have been interesting to see what else he would have come up with when he too got tired and decided to check out the Catskills.
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ugh......jen you embody the embittered critic cliche with such comments. Homely, overweight, and no talent but ranking on others talent ot lack thereof. how is it all of y'all get paid for this again? Yeah dash was a product of the nyc hype machine (and im sorry jen, yr stuck in poor old seattle) but dude made some great shit (as well as medicocre) and is now dead. So lay of the bespectacled "hmmm..blah blah reference this artist compare this to this crap". THAT is a much sadder cliche in my opinion. All of these comments, why dont you all shut the f*ck up and make something? I guess i can answer that myself.....it takes alot more to put yrself out there than it does to tear others down. HOW DO YOU SLEEP?
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I had never heard of this guy, and I have a pretty low tolerance for "edgy" trust-fund hipster artists. But when I google-image-searched his name the first picture on the search results page is a polaroid of some dude snorting a line off of a black guy's cock (which is one of the activities on my "things to do before I die" list). So I guess that's sort of funny.
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How anyone can just pass off death so much is beyond me. The loss of human life bugs the fuck out of me, and I don't care if someone is famous or not. Death is death. You disappoint me, Jen, though I doubt you care what anyone of us think.
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Are you fucking kidding #9? The dude took pictures of decadence and made collages of newspapers of cum...that was fucking boring in 1958.
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You'd have to be a real prick to talk shit about someone who just passed.
And when i see all the comments of people who suddenly found themselves art crtics because a successful artist died,i wonder how many of them would have the balls to put themselves out there the way Dash did...the answer is probably none.
The fact is anything can be art,Art is less about form than process or ideas,so when people say Dash sucked as an artist cause he made "blurry polaroids" or "cum on paper clippings";all it says is you dont get it at all and you're probably a close minded idiot who cant see further than the tip of your nose.
Also,nobody chooses where they were born,so stop blaming the guy for coming from a rich family.He made more money selling a piece than most of us make in a year,so i dont think his family cash mattered to him much,and who cares if it did?
He was very young and had a daughter who won't grow to know her dad,and that is fucking tragic,have a little respect for the dead and their loved ones.
RIP Dash Snow.
And when i see all the comments of people who suddenly found themselves art crtics because a successful artist died,i wonder how many of them would have the balls to put themselves out there the way Dash did...the answer is probably none.
The fact is anything can be art,Art is less about form than process or ideas,so when people say Dash sucked as an artist cause he made "blurry polaroids" or "cum on paper clippings";all it says is you dont get it at all and you're probably a close minded idiot who cant see further than the tip of your nose.
Also,nobody chooses where they were born,so stop blaming the guy for coming from a rich family.He made more money selling a piece than most of us make in a year,so i dont think his family cash mattered to him much,and who cares if it did?
He was very young and had a daughter who won't grow to know her dad,and that is fucking tragic,have a little respect for the dead and their loved ones.
RIP Dash Snow.
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I am a N.W. native living in N.Y. Although I am not a huge fan of Dash's art reading these bitter comments made from the horn rimmed coffee capital makes me so happy I moved away from home. I do not miss the self loathing conservative sarcasm and the conservative taste of indie heaven.
At least he wasn't making cute drawings of birds on telephone wires or woodcuts of hearts or some 8mm film or whatever the tired trend is in Seattle and Portland right now. Makes me like him so much more when I remember the trap of NW art. Now go and do a nice DIY project for yourself after you finish that latte, and tie up those converse!
At least he wasn't making cute drawings of birds on telephone wires or woodcuts of hearts or some 8mm film or whatever the tired trend is in Seattle and Portland right now. Makes me like him so much more when I remember the trap of NW art. Now go and do a nice DIY project for yourself after you finish that latte, and tie up those converse!
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