So you want VFX?
c. Michael St.Mark 2014

  ( Probably not suitable for epileptics )

Deliberately ‘ in your face ‘ commentary on the seemingly fixated quest by contemporary artists for new kinds of visual effects ( VFX ), abstract or otherwise surface pattern / colour detail, or as Duchamp described, ‘retinal’ expressions that generally aim at eliciting emotional responses of some kind from the viewer; eschewing the notion that art can and perhaps should also comment, criticize and enlighten on the complexities of life as it’s lived by present day societal groups. Such as in *Michael Dean’s admirable ‘ Poverty Line ‘ 2016 Turner Prize-nominated piece (links below); or perhaps supremely in Millet’s classic The Gleaners.

* https://londondada.art/2017/01/01/work-no-891v-raising-tate-britain-above-the-art-poverty-line/

“It’s not that visual effects ( VFX ), varied and ubiquitous as they are in almost all contemporary abstract and figurative art; are bad – it’s just that they fail to be completely good in the overall scheme of things when considering the meaning of value.”
– Michael St.Mark 2025

” It’s the duty of artists to dovetail their gift of sensitivity and perception and skill towards the benefit and education of mankind.” – László Moholy-Nagy

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