Second to the Leper-Cahn, this is my favorite old cartoon. Unlike the mentioned cartoon, this was published.
I colored it for fun. I think playing with "Multiply" options made the spotlights look unnaturally glaring. Then again, I thought, that was really the point.
I'm for freedom of speech, even in wretched sick excess. Bring on the five rows of pornography at the convenince store, I don't care.
What I don't like about these conceptual guys is that despite somehow being at the TOP of the art world (they get the grant $) they go out of their way to insult stuff I like. (Comics, anime, manga, animation, underground comics) I've actually met these characters over the years. Fully HALF of them can't draw a stick figure to save their lives. (the other half are like Picasso in illustration talent) One notable encounter will be told later in a cartoon entitled "My Meeting with the Minimalists".
Shocking garbage like they produce hurts funding and respect for the arts. Let them shove J.C. in urine, he's forgiven worse, but what about legitimate plays and musicals? What about art that actually inspires and challenges? I'm not bitter because I'm not under some 'art grant'. The fee I got from the paper helped me keep in ink and bristol paper for quite some time. I'd like someday to see $300 grants for "dabbler/wanna-be" artists and public galleries to sell thier works.
Conceptual art is the ultamite debasement of art. It literally means "in the mind" so you can put "art" on a trash can and justify a $20,000 price tag. Like "intellectual property" and it's abuses (music industry, perscription drug extortionary prices) it BELONGS in the 90's to END as the 90's have.
