Work No. 684; The Propaganda Party

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The Propaganda Party
© Michael St.Mark (31st Dec 2013)

 

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Early New Years Eve street scene, Camden Town London NW1. In the first 3 years of the ConDem’s power-grab, official stats showed the number of rough sleepers UK-wide up by 20%.
Meanwhile the millionaire-to-a-man propaganda party likely as not whooping in the New Year in usual Bollinger-quaffing/sherbet-snorting Hooray Henry style from the uber comfort of their Chelsea town manses or ivy-dripping Rayburn-infested country cottage retreats in rural areas where their second ( or third) homes have jacked-up  house prices beyond the reach of young locals.

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Signed edition of 25 lightjet prints on Kodak Pro Endura
20″ x 17″ ( unframed )
£350

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Work No. 683; Christmas Costa Head

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costa head
Christmas Costa Head
c. Michael St.Mark 2013

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Future’s here now – thousands sitting alone in the ubiquitous identikit Costa, brains
swimming in CC’s very own Caffeineplus while pawing at mobile, tablet or lappy,
busy communicating with others far away.
A case of absence makes the sales grow stronger?

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Signed edition of 25 lightjet prints on Kodak Pro Endura, 30″ x  26″
£350 ( unframed )

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So you want VFX? London Dada Work 682

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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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