The Gospel of Matthew
“Today we’ve got a kind of art that turns against the visual and sensual side of painting, and against the idea that content can ever really be merely in the look of something. The type of art now celebrated by Tate Modern concerns ideas alone, and a rather twisted notion of what “ideas” actually are: in this art if a bit of anger or some identity politics are referred to, then the art really is “angry” or it really does challenge the assumptions of people who haven’t read any books about identity politics (however feeble the realization of the actual art might be). What’s said and written about this type of art, its apologia, has become merely a list of the same pretend-important ideas that by now makes one fall asleep just hearing it.”
- Matthew Collings, Matt’s Old Masters.
The Gospel of Matthew
“Today we’ve got a kind of art that turns against the visual and sensual side of painting, and against the idea that content can ever really be merely in the look of something. The type of art now celebrated by Tate Modern concerns ideas alone, and a rather twisted notion of what “ideas” actually are: in this art if a bit of anger or some identity politics are referred to, then the art really is “angry” or it really does challenge the assumptions of people who haven’t read any books about identity politics (however feeble the realization of the actual art might be). What’s said and written about this type of art, its apologia, has become merely a list of the same pretend-important ideas that by now makes one fall asleep just hearing it.”
- Matthew Collings, Matt’s Old Masters.
