Robert Hughes's The Shock of the New

[Heroique]

Robert Hughes, RIP.

July 28, 1938 – August 6, 2012

He was a man of many great books.

[Brian C. Miller]

And who gets to say what is 'significant'?

Who gets to determine what is 'transcendent'?

The guys who do the show get to define that. It's their show, after all.
Try this exercise: shout "BALDERDASH!" and "HUMBUG!" quite loudly. Then open your window and shout, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" Then go do something constructive. And try not to get killed just for TV ratings.

And goodbye and goodnight to Robert Hughes. (The art critic, not our local variant here.)

[Shen45]

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opin...808-23ub7.html

[cosmicexplosion]

its quiet possible that what happens is that as one ages the shock becomes less and less, simply due to history unfolding like a giant fractal of bricolage, throwing it self into the future with the impotence of understanding, the feebleness of will, desensitisation?

as we soak up the world and see through is disguise, much of it falls away, like the cloud uncovering the moon. we prioritise our short life...

it also appears that the whole notion of art, struggles to exist in the realm between the sacred and the profane, between the impulse and the market place. ones ego and drive, v ones purpose as an individual and culture.

and what one is as a universal entity. what is a human and what is our relationship to the self and world.

are we an image of god, or are we a bunch of atoms, just another animal?

in aboriginal australia, if an elder paints one line incorrectly in a ceremony, all the barrumundi (fish) die, the question of an exhibition to sell art is the antithesis to his intentions.

robert hughes was a alcoholic, does this explain his resignation?

he was also in a car crash a few years back that broke every bone in his body! ( its been said)

to say that art is dead, is a bit like saying creativity is dead, and we should take the word infinite out of the vernacular.

We humans channel this universal principle through our eyes and hands,

i can only feel sorry for people who are stuck in an intellectual paradigm.

which is a dead realm to be sure.

to quote goethe " Grey, grey are all the theories, but green is the tree of life"

R.I.P
Hughsey
you put the ozzie larrikin on the map!