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Runaway Rant: Why Everything is Insane and Stupid
Everything is absolutely off the rails today, as you may have noticed. And there’s a simple reason why.
The American presidential race is a tragicomedy in which the two least popular candidates in the history of the country are crammed down our throats as our only choices, each running on the platform of not being the other despised loser. In a real democracy, these guys wouldn’t even be in the…
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New Video: Art Critic Slams Hirst
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This video expands on clips of art critic Robert Hughes critiquing two of Damien Hirst’s works in the documentary “Mona Lisa Curse,” which has been removed from YouTube under the pretext of copyright infringement. All such segments from the documentary have also been removed. I’m able to get around that by using heavy and creative editing to thwart the algorithm from…
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#art#art criticism#contemporary art#Damien Hirst#Mona Lisa Curse#Robert Hughes#shark tank#Virgin Mother
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New Video: Art Critic Calls Andy Warhol Stupid
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The reason I made this video is that I discovered that the infamous clip of art critic Robert Hughes saying that Andy Warhol was “stupid” could no longer be found on YouTube. After a little more research, I realized the documentary The Mona Lisa Curse that the clip came from had also been expunged. This funny bit of art history, which was so refreshing given…
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#Andy Warhol#art#art criticism#art documentary#art history#Robert Hughes#stupid#The Mona Lisa Curse#Youtube
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Van Gogh's Ear | The Hidden Truth
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New Video: Van Gogh Did NOT Cut Off His Ear
To watch it on YouTube go here: https://youtu.be/kYUtlDi3fK0
Since the discovery in 2016 of a doodle made by Dr. Felix Rey ostensibly illustrating what portion of Van Gogh’s ear was removed, virtually every art critic, historian, and institution, including the Van Gogh Museum, now maintains that Vincent sliced off the entirety of his ear. If, like me, you “didn’t get the memo,” you still likely…
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New Video: Richter's Overpainted Photos
This is the video version of my Richter post about his painted-over photos, which are among his most captivating works. It includes lots more images, and much larger ones at that. My approach includes doing a deep internet search for the best available images and footage to pull from so that my videos contain top-notch visual representations of the art I’m addressing.
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Gerhard Richter's Overpainted Photos
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#abstract#Dresden#Gerhard Richter#Overpainted Photographs#painting#the Albertinum at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
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New Video: How Art History Got Pollock Wrong
This one’s a beauty. The video is more about the destructive impact art history has had on art than it is about Pollock, but even Pollock haters should appreciate the aesthetics of his work as I’ve showcased it. As an artist, when I make these videos, I can’t help getting into the visual experience of watching them. I love a good detail of a painting or a dramatic photo of an artist, and I…
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New Video: IS AI JUST A TOOL?
This video combats the often-repeated argument that AI is just a tool when it comes to making AI art, and the real art is “the idea”. This same belief underpins a lot of contemporary conceptual art rhetoric and has its roots in the anti-art, anti-aesthetic, and anti-painting movement of the early 20th century, particularly in the jargon surrounding Marcel Duchamp. I argue that visual art is rife…
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Do artists provide the idea and AI merely renders the image?
Where does the real art happen, in the concept, the rendering, or both? What kind of ideas are present in visual art? What does everyone miss when talking about ideas in AI art?
AI vs. human. Left is a rendering by AI, and right a painting by artist Patrick Woodroffe.
There is a common notion in dialogues about AI art that goes like this: humans provide the idea, and AI is just a tool that does…
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$0.00: Total money I've brought home directly from my art, prints, videos, and blog in my lifetime.
I have a limited time to get this blog post out before it’s too late.
What is the thing I most have in common with Vincent Van Gogh? There are a few things, but topping the list is never making any money off of my art. True, he sold one painting in his lifetime, which I wrote about here – The Red Vineyard, and why Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime – but I’m not dead yet so he…
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New Art: Mecha-Marilyn (V2)
Mecha-Marilyn (V2), by Eric Wayne, digital painting, “48 x 24” @300 dpi, 9/2023.
In the final version of Mecha-Marilyn, I elongated the canvas, added broken glass, her signature on masking tape, and in the upper left piled thick [digital] paint swatches on the surface of the image …
If I were to write about this piece in the manner I do about other artists’ work, I’d lavish praise, but when it…
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Introducing Mecha-Marilyn (V1): Not AI
Mecha-Marilyn (V1), by Eric Wayne, digital painting, 38″ x 24″ at 300 dpi, 9/2023.
[Note that there is a Version 2, which I will share in an additional post.]
As an artist who works digitally in 2023 I need to clarify that my work is not the product of AI. Well, that is not 100% accurate because I got the inspiration for this piece while playing around with AI. Below is something I got AI to…
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No, The Salvator Mundi Is Not a Split Androgynous Image.
I took the liberty of mirroring the sides of the head to show it is not deliberately a split androgynous image.
For some mysterious reason, my video about the Salvator Mundi not being a real Leonardo, basically because it sucks, has suddenly been getting a lot of traction after being buried by the algorithm for 2 years. And so I’ve been fielding a lot of comments, and people keep telling me that…
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If you think RFK Jr. is an anti-Semite, anti-Asian bigot, you've been chumped by sinister stupidity.
If your trusted news source is telling you that RFK Jr. is an anti-Semite, anti-Asian, etc., this is a very powerful sign that your news source is a lethal brew of corporate and governmental propaganda and that you are being spoon-fed noxious bile in lieu of anything approaching real news. Probably you are innocent and have merely been hoodwinked by a level of corruption we would never suspect in…
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Becoming Invisible for a month
I’ve already almost entirely disappeared since mid-June. I’ve enjoyed it so much that I’m planning to completely vanish for all of next month.
I decided to take a few days offline back on the 15th of June. I announced my decision on Twitter, and attached a poll to see if others thought I could make it or not. Here are the results:
A 3-day stretch was easy. I grew up in the analog world, went…
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The Greatest Cover-up in Human History must be unveiled.
With the recent apparently credible news stories of UFOs or UAPs [unidentified anomalous phenomena] and the government secretly keeping recovered fragments of alien ships, my internet hoax from over 10 years ago is suddenly prophetic. I conceived this when I lived in China, and I would get email forwards of all sorts of ridiculous stories. I decided to create my own. This was really just to…
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