Jeremias (Jeremiah) 10:14

"Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them."



  "From the moment that art ceases to be food that feeds the best minds,
  the artist can use his talents to perform all the tricks of the
  intellectual charlatan. Most people can today no longer expect to receive
  consolation and exaltation from art. The 'refined,' the rich, the
  professional 'do-nothings', the distillers of quintessence desire only
  the peculiar, the sensational, the eccentric, the scandalous in today's
  art.

  I myself, since the advent of Cubism, have fed these fellows what they
  wanted and satisfied these critics with all the ridiculous ideas that
  have passed through my mind. The less they understood them, the more they
  admired me. Through amusing myself with all these absurd farces, I became
  celebrated, and very rapidly. For a painter, celebrity means sales and
  consequent affluence. Today, as you know, I am celebrated, I am rich.

  But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an
  artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian,
  Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown - a
  mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility,
  the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession,
  this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and
  at last it does have the merit of being honest."


Pablo Picasso - 1952

Hi Graham,

Thanks for pointing this out. However, in my subsequent research, I can find no definitive proof either way.


I note from the Guardian newspaper the following.


"is widely thought by art experts to have been fabricated by an Italian journalist and critic, Giovanni Papini, in the early 1950s."


But there is no clear evidence I can find to support this view. However, neither is there certitude of its authenticity, so it can no longer be attributed.


But what can be said, is that is a good summary of the truth of "modern art" and artists.

   

Psalms 61:10

"But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive."


An interesting article.

http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/c025_ModernArt_6.htm


God bless.

To Memento,

Thanks. I wouldn't be surprised if it was genuine. It has a confessional quality and a form that I reckon would be hard to fake. Whatever, the truth, it certainly is on the mark. How many of these "modern artists" honestly believe their works fall within a sound definition of true art? Money and fame take the precedence.

   

Matthew 23:27

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men' s bones, and of all filthiness."


Much deceit at work!


God bless.!

You got it Greg!


Romans 1:21-22

"Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."

The toddlers' finger paintings look better than the so-called "modern art". I bet the "artists" laugh themselves silly that they can actually find fools who are willing to buy their rubbish.

I hadn't thought of it that way Greg but it rings true. It's rather chilling to reflect upon the fact that we live in a society wherein criminal insanity or something very near it is the norm & the few that are sane can only look on in horror as it sinks ever deeper into the abyss.

To Greg,


If you are short of a few bob, you could always put the contents of your garage on the steps of the Tate Modern and watch the bids come in!

Modernist Art.


Cardinal Marx consecrates modernist bird cage- he must think its an altar.





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Just like their heads, vacuous!