Comments on: Marcel Duchamp clip from The Shock of the New (1982)

By: rictit

rictit — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:38:14 +0000

He is a fucking genius!!!Not like American painters, which are stupid and repetitive!!!Specially those from the Expressionist Abstract period, which they did something that was done since 1900′s!!But of course, the best dealers came from USA, after WWII, and that;s the reason why idiots like Warhol, Basquiat, Motherwell, DeKooning became famous!!!But really the best artists come from Europe, Japan, Latinamerica and that’s it!!!!NO more than that!

By: larrypearce2

larrypearce2 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:55:44 +0000

A bit simplistic. Ironically, your attitude is very American. German art, particularly that which came after WWII, is quite fascinating.

By: VanishingActFilms

VanishingActFilms — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:28:11 +0000

Yes, He is a genius but you cant rule out american painters. Yes, real art came from Europe and japan and so on but American art is important. With out American art we wouldent have nso many art movements of today. American artists like Pollock and Warhol are geniuses. Pop art is repetitive but its making fun at abstract expressionism and mocking art and nchallanging what is art. Without American Art we wouldent have had Feminist art which challanged so much that it created Post Modernism.

By: VanishingActFilms

VanishingActFilms — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:31:05 +0000

American Art is important. You may not personally like it but it is an important art to Arts history. We must embrace it and also remember where its roots are, That is in Europe.

By: rictit

rictit — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:03:12 +0000

Dude, don’t tell me that Warhol is more genius than Marcel Duchamp, Picasso, Miro, Dali, Matisse, Derain, Bacon etc. Common Dude, let’s be honest, the best dealers come from the U.S., so guess what artists are going to be the most succesful? Of course THE AMERICANS!!! Because Americans are very nationalistics

By: VanishingActFilms

VanishingActFilms — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:38:41 +0000

Im not going to lie Marcel Duchamp, Picasso, Miro, Dali, Matisse, Derain, Bacon are all genius but when they first came into art they used art to imitate life but when the camera was invented they were no longer needed to imitate life so they could finally explore form but when the American artists came into play they explored more than form, they challanged what was accepted as art to the point where house hold items are accepted as Art. Im not saying that americans are better than Europeans.

By: VanishingActFilms

VanishingActFilms — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:34:07 +0000

What im saying is that Art changes and Transforms and although it is good to have favorties we need to accept all Art. We cannot ignore significant movements of Art and say it was only because they had the best dealers. They only reason Art sells is because it is accepted by the public eye.

By: stevestevejam

stevestevejam — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:52:43 +0000

Robert Hughes is a Pile.

By: stevestevejam

stevestevejam — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:31:13 +0000

Much more than that! Motherwell may have considered himself a Parisian counterpart, Dekooning fled trouble and came to recognition in the dealing world quiet late, mistakingly after his style had been in progression. The rest are irrelevant, To make a dignified statement about American abstraction against European Abstraction or realism would be partially absurd. Americans are at heart and almost by law radical to tradition, Hence the “New World”.

By: ffzappe

ffzappe — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:44:08 +0000

Very well put, Steve!!!! To add ¢2: I think Warhol is still severely underrated..