tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534680992596610126.post8882078196816690131..comments2023-10-15T08:42:15.393+01:00Comments on Rocket Remnants: That's Not His Nameroy rockethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13212786349720823951noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534680992596610126.post-44162754085419896072015-02-25T15:04:25.775+00:002015-02-25T15:04:25.775+00:00It's good that the BBC are getting slightly mo...It's good that the BBC are getting slightly more adventurous with their listings! I hadn't realised him and Tracey Emin were involved.Somerset Wedding Galhttp://www.holbrookhouse.co.uk/weddingsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534680992596610126.post-7469531506785912742010-10-09T16:12:16.183+01:002010-10-09T16:12:16.183+01:00Nice! royNice! royroy rockethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13212786349720823951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534680992596610126.post-19650023068993691332010-10-09T01:28:21.155+01:002010-10-09T01:28:21.155+01:00Yep, I'm intentionally beligerent when it come...Yep, I'm intentionally beligerent when it comes to being presented with paintings like Billy Childish's. As a painter, he clearly is talentless, or very nearly so, if the word "talent" is to have any meaning. This is lazy stuff pretending to be in some way more honest than paintings arrived at through real technique and skill, and here he's in bed with Tracey Emin metaphorically too. The Emperor's New Clothes.<br /><br />You can back up his art (in fact you have to back it up - it falls over otherwise) with clever argument and erudite texts explaining exactly how and why is art is as good/valid/artistic as ... well, that old stuff in the National Gallery, but I'll base my reactions on what I see, not what I think or I'm told to think. As to my reaction being "subjective" - there's a word being used like a hammer. Everybody's opinion is subjective, as good as anybody else's, therefore you cannot criticise (say) Childish's work by any objective standards, and he's quite as "good" as da Vinci.<br /><br />(PS I don't assume you'll be interested in comments that only agree with you, that's why I've posted these comments and not smiley faces. Great blog.).https://www.blogger.com/profile/12723806547579467940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534680992596610126.post-67689665955094767332010-10-09T01:00:01.558+01:002010-10-09T01:00:01.558+01:00Post-post-modern, surely.
., I don't know why...Post-post-modern, surely.<br /><br />., I don't know why you should assume I would only be interested in comments that wholeheartedly agree with everything I, or the quoted subject has to say.<br />Although I'm not sure you are disagreeing with what I said, or what Childish says in the documentary - I presume you haven't listened to the doc: Childish is very critical of Emin and the establishment (she's an RA, right), in fact he could have written what you wrote... without the criticism of his art, of course... and I'm sure you weren't being misogynistic when you were critical of Emin; you are a critic of her work, right, not her, or her looks...?<br /><br />As for Childish being 'talentless'.<br />Well, that is a subjective criticism. Expressionism is what it is; many probably consider Pollock degenerate.<br />Childish is both pragmatic and creative; both talents in my experience; considering most people really couldn't be arsed...<br /><br />., are you intentionally belligerent or is that just your style? But at least you gave me a warning. Ha.<br />roy xroy rockethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13212786349720823951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534680992596610126.post-63222838190475101242010-10-08T09:27:34.725+01:002010-10-08T09:27:34.725+01:00" ... an elitist art establishment for anyone..." ... an elitist art establishment for anyone who doesn't fit-in or follow their arbitrary and bullshit 'rules'."<br /><br />Ah-ha.Uh-huh. This elitist art establishment you mention is constituted of the no-talent attitudinising charlatans you mention in you piece. Skill and technique (both predictably absent from the "art" you reproduce here) aren't elitist qualities - they're open to anyone with a bit of talent and application.<br /><br />Billy Childish may be a poet (although I suspect that's more "poet") and ("") musician, but on the visual evidence here, he's a singing postman when it comes to painting. Reminds me of Bob Dylan's pictures - and who wants to be reminded of those?<br /><br />And don't get me started on Tracey Emin. It's just a massive and continuing source of relief to me that my name will never, ever, be added to her "people I've slept with" tent. Her loss, too.<br /><br />Fuck 'em. And the post-modern (remember that?) paradigm they rode in on..https://www.blogger.com/profile/12723806547579467940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3534680992596610126.post-1658083192154644592010-09-26T14:29:07.282+01:002010-09-26T14:29:07.282+01:00CHEERS ROY... well looking fwd to checking this on...CHEERS ROY... well looking fwd to checking this one out.he's always great to catch live(in whatever guise)xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com