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About Michael St.Mark

Conceptual / experimental multi-discipline artist, writer and photographer. Art influencer and founder of London Dada, recalling Dada's original aims and principles as envisaged by it's founder Hugo Ball. Eschews the often politically-motivated taboo on expressions of critical thought within art. Admiring Duchamp in going beyond the seemingly endless infatuation with the ' pretty picture' retinal and instead refusing to accept the standards and practices of an established corrupt art world and creatively stifling conventions that are still considered essential to attain fame and financial success: refusing to repeat himself or to develop one recognizable style to placate the commercial needs of the market.

Work No. 17; Dead Thistles with Laughing Monkey

Dead Thistles with Laughing Monkey.
Hampstead Heath
© 2005 Michael St.Mark
( Spot by May East )
First in the long-running series

 

Dead thistles; valuable anti-art subject matter in the sense that they are looked on by the world as having not only no intrinsic aesthetic value but even a negative one.