A Renaissance is Needed

With the occupy wall street revolution going on worldwide it seems.It's time to turn our attention to the lame corporate takeover of all of america's glowing art forms,music,art,comics,movies,theatre.Pop culture.Don't want to be a name dropper but I thought it was about fair competition which is very fair in sports,whether you like sports or not.Now it's reality television trends,connections,nepotism or boy do I sound bitter.

All bitterness aside.It should come down to stuff that has the most "wow",and for while in this town I haven't seen any.Wow me I'm waiting.Whoever thought up installations? Do me a favor and lethally inject them with talent for one.Most look like an upside down car w/ throw-up coming out of the convertible.Your telling me art buyers/collectors actually let other people do their thinking for them when all the evidence of the latest trend is so blatant,in your face.Since when did fashion take over the art world I don't know.Warhol certainly was stylish and pop.Warhol knew the art of painting is dead so he gave america,the world the front page,media,violence all w/ pop colors.Then came jean michel basquait.Now it's shepard fairey and banksy.Just started watching with relish"Exit through the gift shop"with banksy in it of course.There's also cameos by dennis hopper,jay leno and shaquile o'neal so don't let anyone tell you it's a real indy film.Not with that star power.

Then what about the unknowns?Who are probably more talented than anyone on the surface world.Who knows if they don't have their place to shine.I'm not sure when the renaissance happened and I don't care.Fifteeen/sixteen something.Around the time of shakes,rembrant,da vinchi,nostradamus and on to beethoven,mozart.People ought to backtrack on the internet including me to find out the real reason why?Were they just tired of war,joan of arc's burning at the stake,the inquisition.What drove the populace to say enough is enough with war.We want to have fun,to create,make out/party/make love and not be coerced by the town or government,telling them what to do and what they can't do.Enough is enough!We need a real renaissance and the time is now.The wall street protests are just the beginning my friends.

If the market is always deciding for us what is the free market then guess what?There is no free market.Which I'm told is true capitalism.Capitalism isn't greed which some ignorants think it's the free market,not controlled by corporations,taxes that squash the little guy/gal and you can make your own products and not be hassled by i'm gonna say it-government.

This isn't what our founding fathers wanted for us.I'm tired of the rise of corporations peddling us crap.I'm tired of what galleries spout off about how great art is.Looking at most I can see why art has taken to the streets,because joe mccarthy's ghost must be rolling in disgust.It is a house on un-american activities.We should be allowed to support ourselves with our own creativity,ingenuity, ambition which america was meant to be and is not.Which is why wall street may just be the the movement to get the creative engine running.

Oh,and I highly recommend banksy's "exit through the gift shop"-a true rebel.


r.a.f.

Well so ends another mini-tale.Enjoy the collage' and I'll be back next week with "Book of 100 collages'(coming soon).And one of these days comics-lol!