I also urge you to bring a gun to kill yourself shortly after viewing, because I promise you that you will literally feel your face hemorrhage, and probably never be able to have sex again.
Yes it's really that bad, and if you don't believe me, the picture above is of the disclaimer the gallery had on their door.
So, I bet your wondering "How can it be that bad?" Well, here's how (in no particular order):
5. Photorealism doesn't thrill me, not because I have anything against painting from photographs, but because it started 30 years ago and I'm convinced that SOMETHING has had to have happened since 1970.
4. The paintings aren't really that good. In photographs, they look just like photographs. In real life the perspective is off, the colors are muddled, they're lacking any emotion, and they're just kind of wonky in general. They're not lazily painted, but they're not painted with particular care either. They don't transform the photograph into a painting. Chuck Close, for example, a. works from photographs, b. makes photorealistic paintings, c. makes paintings that still look like paintings and d. makes me actually care because they're done with skill and passion.
3. I'm bored. I like bodily fluids as much as the next person, but I can get great REAL images of them off of google whenever I want. There's nothing about Ceylans paintings that really make them valuable to me as paintings.
2. I'm never a fan of the subjugation of women, and I'm not actually sure that Mr.Ceylan actually ever told THIS woman *points to below* that she was going to be a painting.
1. The Internet may be for porn, but ART GALLERIES AREN'T.
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The Post Script of this blog is that all but one of the paintings in this gallery sold, some for over $60,000. The one remaining painting was a nude self portrait - it became painfully apparent that it was the "dryest" painting of the bunch... no blood, no semen, no boozey wet tee-shirt contest. I guess the consumers speak, and what they really want is a dripping wet mess.
ReplyDeleteDo you really think the woman, who allowed this picture to be taken and was publicly performing these acts, really cares that someone made a painting of her? She would probably think it was well done and cool.
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