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Majorityrights Central > Category: The Arts & Design

Art, cultural vandalism and the public purse

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, 18 April 2005 11:00.

The art world is one of the most corrupted components of British society. It is filled with talentless professional eccentrics, poseurs and intellectual frauds and lightweights who daub with faeces and trade in pure shock value or boorish mundanity.

What might have been excusable were it no more than the surviving rump of 20th century modernism, refining perhaps the irony of Duchamps and Dali but not their outrageousness, has completely taken over the asylum. As Prince Charles famously said of architecture, the avant garde has become the establishment. It seems that there is no way back, for the structure of patronage and schooling which produced the great art of our European past cannot be replicated. Democracy, capitalism and the state have killed it off absolutely and forever.

The consequence, quite apart from the flight from beauty and the total failure of draughtsmanship, is that the general public has become hopelessly innured to badness. It traipses along to the galleries to be baffled, amused, entertained by the shock of the bad - in the process, naturally enough, creating a demand for more and yet more and worse badness. We know it’s all crudely unintellectual schlock of the lowest order, a sublime joke in which some Highfallutin Johnny Expert informs us with a perfectly straight face as to that before which we must genuflect. But still, it seems, we genuflect.