After 13 years of making inroads of overdue change into the flint-hard fear and conformity-ridden glass ceiling maintained by the money-driven pretentious and cronyism-infested art world; what more suitable triumphant note on which to validate a still unrecognized chapter in art history than being blocked by Artnet on social media simply for highlighting Jeff Koon’s obvious art fraud ( see compare, above ) and thus publicising home truths about its international art market cash cow artists such as Koons and Hirst.
Link to the story typifying Jeff Koon’s ( and others ) MO, just the latest in a long line of habitual plagiarism of other artists’ work, combined with a depressing personal paucity of creative originality, skill, talent or moral compass in at least tipping a name hat to the unrecognized artists behind much of their output.
London Dada; 2005 – 2019+
( Works No. 01 to 1002+ )
Michael St.Mark
Shoreditch, 13th May 2019
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Update II, October 2024.
Talentless leeches head up Western civilization, including the art world.
Vital argument here..
The meathook reality for most aspiring artists ( an eventual inexorable conclusion )
Verification of the above, by example, would be the frustrated career of Van Gough, who had little wealth, minimal connections and – in his lifetime – one sale out of 2,100 paintings, despite great talent, perception and empathy for the poor and downtrodden.
Contemporary artists, many of whom are likewise gifted, would do well to ask themselves whether much has changed in terms of the criteria required for success since the 19th century.
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Addendum.
Work to continue on this blog and London Dada websites in refining, upgrading and adding missing content from some earlier posts, whose loss was due to LD’s former blog platform blog.co.uk closing in 2014.
Artist ART AXIS to remain active in promoting existing LD content across social media for posterity and continue to conduct Banksy-style public awareness stunts London-wide through our Green Disc subsidiary co.
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Legacy validation
The imperishable fruit of London Dada;
6191 photography collective
Carrying the torch for Hugo Ball’s vision through the medium of photography reoriented;
“ Art that expresses true perception and fearless criticism of the times we live in ”
Six Career Artists ( locked in creative stasis )
© Michael St.Mark 2018-22.
Bianca Bosker is unmasking The opaque art world” with her new book, Get the Picture. “Obsessive Art Fiends ” https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1227564378/get-the-picture-bianca-bosker-art
Art critic Robert Hughes dumps Damien Hirst’s shark and spots self-admitted ” shit “
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Michael St.Mark advocates returning legendary German artist Kurt Schwitters’ final creation, his Merz Wall – dubbed his ” life’s great work” – to its indisputably rightful place; reintegrated into the Merz Barn that is still languishing vacant like a crown with its jewels long extracted, in Elterwater Cumbria.
Official KS Newsletter article here..
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