If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
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Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
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Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
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New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
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Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
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The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
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Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
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Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.