See this piece of shit “art” below? It sold recently for almost FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS. Look at it, and then ponder about what it tells us about society.
Theologian Francis Schaefer wrote an incredibly illuminating book regarding how art reflects the health of society titled; — “How Shall We Then Live”. From wiki …
“According to Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live traces Western history from Ancient Rome until the time of writing (1976) along three lines: the philosophic, scientific, and religious. He also makes extensive references to art and architecture as a means of showing how these movements reflected changing patterns of thought through time. “
The book came out in 1976. You know what makes it (or, anything) great? When it passes the test of time. Per the bolded quote below, what Mr. Schaefer wrote back then, may be even MORE applicable today!
“Another premise is that modern relative values are based on Personal Peace (the desire to be personally unaffected by the world’s problems) and Affluence (an increasing personal income.) He warns that when we live by these values we will be tempted to sacrifice our freedoms in exchange for an authoritarian government who will provide the relative values. He further warns that this government will not be obvious like the fascist regimes of the 20th century but will be based on manipulation and subtle forms of information control, psychology, and genetics.”
Yes, he is a Christian, and his solutions are Christian based. So many non-believers will just stop reading now. And that’s a real damned shame!!! He’s not an in-your-face Bible thumper. He’s anything but that. He’s calm, reasoned, logical, factual, and even tolerant. Definitely in my Top 3 favorite theologians of all time. You don’t know what you’re missing.
If you’re a believer and haven’t read the book (or watched the video), I have a message for our; God told me that he wants you to watch it ASAP, or he will take you home!
The book was made into a 10 part video series, about a half hour each. The first video is below.
Please, at least watch the first three minutes. It will give you a feel for the quality, and informative value. Three minutes … it could change your life.
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Below is the article about the Ketchup Painting.
This is not satire
While media attention was focused on the sale of a rare Leonardo da Vinci painting, a piece of modern art being derisively described as “ketchup on canvas” just sold for nearly $50 million dollars.
During an auction at Christie’s in New York last night, de Vinci’s 500-year-old “Christ as Salvator Mundi” ended up selling for a whopping $450 million dollars, more than four times its estimated price.
However, another piece of “art,” appropriately titled Untitled, was bought for $46,437,500. As you can see, it resembles what would probably happen if a 2-year-old toddler was left on its own with a bottle of ketchup.
The ketchup on canvas is an example of “neo-expressionism” and was created in 2005. According to Tate Modern, the painting is supposed to symbolize Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.
“Red is the colour of wine, but also of blood, and these canvases encompass both the sensual pleasure and violent debauchery associated with the god. This contrast is echoed in the paintings’ combination of euphoric loops that soar upwards and vermilion floods of paint that ooze and cascade down the canvas.
“The unfurling gestures of these paintings were made, like Henri Matisse’s works in old age, with a brush affixed to the end of a pole, which lends them their vitality and scale.”
As we highlight in the video below, the above gibberish is an example of obscurantism, a rhetorical device modern art snobs use to disguise the fact that their “art” is actually completely meaningless.
It’s a fancy way of confusing people so that their initial discernment is temporarily suspended, making them afraid of criticizing such “art” for fear of appearing uncultured or ignorant.
In reality, their first instinct is completely correct. The vast majority of modern art is talentless trash – sometimes literally trash – and the entire industry is a scam to con pretentious idiots out
http://humansarefree.com/2018/02/ketchup-on-canvas-modern-art-sells-for.html
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Think I’d rather have a Frank Frazetta or Boris Vallejo…… At least they make sense, and One doesn’t need an “Explanation” regarding the “Meaning”……. That one’s not even fit for use as asswipe…..
@ ZeroZee0 – Don’t forget Luis Royo and his hauntingly beautiful women.
That’s an interesting piece of scribbling on that canvas, but I’m not sure it is worth 50 million.
More than I’d pay for it anyway.
Is this a joke or did that painting actually sell for fidy million?
A fool and his money.
A black budget project and its laundry.
Modern abstract paintings are an attack on natural beauty and it is designed to corrupt our minds and destroy our civilization. Ask yourself – who controls the art market? Answer that question and you will know how pieces of disgusting junk art are being purchased for millions of dollars by art galleries around the world such as the Voice of Fire which consists three vertical stripes of color that hangs in the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. The “painter” is Barnett Newman (check out his background). If you want to understand who is behind the corruption of art and beauty, I suggest you read “The Plot Against Art, Part 1” by Dr. Lasha Darkmoon from which the quote below is taken.
“Since Darwin and Freud, there has been a complete “revaluation of all values.” Everything has been turned upside down. We can mostly attribute this parlous state of affairs to the machinations of organized Jewry, in particular to a group of revolutionary thinkers known as the Frankfurt School. (For a detailed introduction to the ideas of these neo-Freudian Marxists, most of whom were Jewish refugees from Hitler’s Germany who fled to America, see Chapter 5 of Kevin MacDonald’s The Culture of Critique).
Just as one of these Frankfurters, Theodor Adorno, set out to destroy Western music, assuring the world that atonal music was a good thing because it was discordant and ugly, others in the group set out to destroy art and push it to its reductio ad absurdum: lights going on and off in an empty room, unmade beds with condoms and bloodstained panties strewn around, and sealed cans containing the artist’s own excrement.”
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Darkmoon-ArtI.html
The “modern” art movement was a CIA psyop. Go to Milesmathis.com and go to his writings section. He explains it in great detail.
just a sample
http://mileswmathis.com/agnes.html
Has anyone considered that this “art” is actually being used as a money laundering device? At least that would make some sense….
That’s using the noggin, pyrrhus. I never thought of that. Makes perfect sense.
“Controls the art market”?
That needs explanation, to me it seems to be entirely voluntary on the part of the participants with no one making anyone take part in it without wanting to and expressing anything they want to express in it as they see fit (whether a buyer, creator, or seller).
That isn’t “control” by anyone, it’s just a free market for art as people want it to be.
The Podestas come to mind.
“That needs explanation” – hence , the reference to Miles Mathis. He’ll tell you all about it.
Voice of Fire…how uplifting but I have seen a lot worse.
https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/voice-of-fire
I wouldn’t buy it. Wouldn’t harmonize with the piss green shag and chrome Barcelona chairs in the main salon. Hmm…, maybe swirls of grape jam?
I really am beginning to hate these son of a bitches . (((They))) Destory with malice for thought everything once good in Western Civilization .At least Blacks do it out of stupidity.
I am not arguing with your point, just pointing out:
Malice Aforethought
A predetermination to commit an act without legal justification or excuse. A malicious design to
injure. An intent, at the time of a killing, willfully to take the life of a human being, or an intent willfully to act in callous and wanton disregard of the consequences to human life; but malice aforethought does not necessarily imply any ill will, spite or hatred towards the individual killed.
Aforethought. Fixed it for you.
OK, didn’t see Hollywood Rob’s comment before I posted mine.
I look at crap like that and think “if I could do it, it’s not art”.
I could paint you a painting just like it in the color of your choice for the incredibly LOW, LOW price of 1.5 MILLION today, and today only.
Also, Maggie has a vagina painting available at a bargain basement price. Call now, operators are standing by…….
Uncool, Bea. One of these days, Alice. To the MOON.
Hey Maggie……I was trying to drum you up a buyer. Some thanks I get…..sheesh!
These days the Art is in destroying the culture.
I’m content with defending the near east. so there.
Aren’t there people in the near east you don’t like, Zara?
Could paying stupid prices for things like this be a way to payoff someone? Or a way to launder money?
Yes, most definitely. Of course you can’t rule out that somebody actually likes crappy paintings and has stupid money to waste on the crappy paintings that they like. That is always a real possibility.
I suspect these high-end art auctions are used extensively by the elite for money laundering. A great way to hide gains acquired by illegal and evil activity. Such is the amount of money being “washed” there is neither time nor inclination to actually make/acquire truly great art. Must have products available for sale/purchase at a dizzying pace all of the time. That’s why this particular naked emperor must be clothed in fawning respect and pretentious promotion by these same elites. They have to buy and sell this stuff to transact their nefarious business.
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For Q fans. There may be other resources like this out there, or you may already know about this one …. i have no idea … but, I stumbled across this yesterday.
A Live Update of Q postings.
http://www.theeventchronicle.com/qanon/qanon-live-updates/
That video could be a stand alone post. Funny as shit.
That was a great video. Not only are feminists the ugliest women on the planet, they’re complete idiots with no common sense.
“Don’t set out to raze all shrines. You’ll frighten people.
Enshrine mediocrity and the shrines are razed”
This is textbook socialism.
Leonardo is good. And the ketchup painter is as good as Leonardo. There are no bad painters. No losers. No merit.
http://www.elsancholocotaqueria.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi4nDKO-UFY
You pathetic anti-semites will believe anything your itching ears want to hear. Larry David is not an example of Judaism. Impressionism and realism have nothing to do with genealogy or faith. It’s in the eyes of the beholder.
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Cultural Marxism ….
February 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Breitbart reports that the latest iPhone update has deliberately removed Good Friday and Easter Sunday from users’ calendars.
The default setting on iOS devices is for U.S. holidays, which shows holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and Independence Day. However, there is an option to add Alternate Calendars, including Chinese, Hebrew and Islamic. But Christian is absent from this list on iOS 11.2.5.
An apt video for this discussion:
If you haven’t yet been watching Paul Joseph Watson regularly, get to it.
Brilliant analysis of modern art.
Modern art notoriety, and prices, do not reflect talent. Instead, those things reflect originality, as hideous as it obviously is. It is difficult to create new ideas in art, and those artists that do see their works sell for obscene sums.
Trying to understand why hideous, child-like art sells for gazillions is explained thus. I would not own one, even if I could afford the multi-million dollar tag. People pay for the origina idea, not the art itself.
This video series (How Should We Then Live) is also available free on Amazon Prime Video. I just watched it a couple of weeks ago.
Perhaps we (the masses) are too gullible for our own good. Perhaps this ‘exchange’ of art for cash is money laundering. Perhaps it is ‘payment’ for services rendered. What an eloquent way to nefariously exchange cash for something else … not being the actual art. Readers on this website acknowledge that much of the news we are spoon fed is unadulterated bullshit. Perhaps these outlandish amounts of money represent ‘something else’. No different than when the U.S. military pay $1,000 for a toilet seat or a wrench. Now what that ‘consideration’ for cash is …. I have no idea. I’m not part of the ‘owners club.’
It’s mostly a tax scam. Someone buys garbage art from an anointed (well connected) dealer for some price, and by the time they donate it to some charity, the tax scam art network of dealer ‘experts’ has bullshitted its value up to some large multiple of the original price.
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p561
you guys want some good art?
go to walmart,buy some cheap art,then have it framed in a nice frame–
nicer art–go to a ducks unlimited or friends of the nra banquet and bid on the art they auction there–
Thomas Kinkade, the painter of light, is scoffed at by modern artists. I would take a Kinkade over any of the modern artists any day.
Examples of his work are found here:
https://thomaskinkade.com/the-art/
The Burning Platform on Kentucky Lake…
While we are on the topic of fine art, I would like to remind Admin I possess this rare oil toned Turner landscape on canvas titled Fire on Kentucky Lake, painted in 1968 by my aunt (namesake) as a Senior Thesis at a university in Kentucky, little known for its fine art department.
It could be yours for FAR LESS than $46 million. Just sayin’
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https://youtu.be/tqAVPVJ3tMA
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Mags is mad with me for calling that a vagina painting. What do you think?
I drew that painting and named it after myself.
Some of you were talking about money laundering and tax scams.
Here is a very short article from Simon Black at Sovereign Man.
The Italian govt is using an algorithm/search engine to completely comb thru the lives of citizens to detect financial irregularities such as people who show little income but make large bank deposits or who have large credit card bills.
https://www.sovereignman.com/tax/meet-the-italian-governments-orwellian-new-automated-tax-snitch-22985/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sm_notes&utm_campaign=notes&utm_content=2018220_italy_tax
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Q is such a cutie!
back to the price for a sec–
don’t some economists informally consider it a harbinger of the economy going off the cliff when the price of art,jewelry,collectibles,etc become so outrageous?
They have to submit a story. Years ago, it was the skirt length harbinger, the original AFL harbinger; bullshit signs that replaced real signs like locust and drought.
I wonder if Trump is a harbinger of the Apocalypse?
Stucky, thank you so much for the video series. I watched the entire first one. I intend to watch the others later. Excellent!
Modern Art sux.
Says more about the quantity theory of money dilution. This crappy art, tulip bulbs, Weimar bedpans, etc – what’s the difference? ’57 belair, ’69 camaro convertible, I used to have, same thing, likely sitting in collections somewhere having been traded for hot-hotter-hottest money.
Iow, the art that’s actually in question is counterfeiting. Absent sound money, gresham’s law likes to drive old cars – well, maybe a little, mostly they stay parked until warp drive flip price is engaged – or anything else it can trade the scrip for.