By Lyrois (channeled by Alexander Becker)
A noted lecturer once presented his audience with a white sheet of paper that had a black dot in the center.
He asked the crowd what they saw. Without exception they responded, A black dot.
He asked: Why do you choose to focus on the insignificant speck of black in the middle of a page, when its overwhelming majority contains white space?
By Lyrois (channeled by Alexander Becker)
The monthly commentary.
Labels: 2011, art, calendar, illustration, lyrois
By Lyrois (channeled by Alexander Becker)
While the Guernica Mashup, was all dancing and dying, here is something even more serious --
Since art is no longer the food for the best, the artist can use his talent for all the changes and whims of his fantasy. This opens all the roads for his intellectual quackery. The general population does no longer find in art neither solace nor elation. But the snobs, the rich people, the good-for-nothings, and those that want to attract attention to themselves, find in art the strange, the original, the eccentric and the shocking. I have pleased my critics with countless jokes I devised, which they admired the more for the less they understood them. Nowadays I'm not just famous but also rich. But when I'm alone with myself, I can't consider myself to be an artist in the sublime sense of the term. Great painters were Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt and Goya. I am merely a clown that understood its time and knew how to take advantage of all the stupidity, lechery and vanity of his fellow citizens.--Pablo Picasso
Nicely put, and a great opportunity for a reality check.
Discuss it on Google+ -- also, there's more in my book "None of This is Real."
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None of This is Real is the Lyrois portfolio with colorful works and controversial texts from 2002 to 2011. Out now.
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