A great post from remodernreview.wordpress Richard Bledsoe on a surprising lover of art, Vincent Price. For those people from other countries, Vincent Price is a famous actor in American horror movies from the 1960s and so on.
Vincent Price: Bringing Art to the People
A large part of what drives the asinine blight of the contemporary establishment art world is a strange creed of status seeking. The current power brokers, through their strangleholds on government, the media, academia, and the arts, demonstrate that status is dependent on slavish conformity to their imposed hierarchies. Anyone not willing to submit to their dictates and priorities is outside the tribe, and therefore deserves only contempt and demonization.
Following the implied commands and encouragement from this would-be ruling class, the witch hunt and the lynch mob are becoming an increasingly common activity in our society. The news is full of stories of hateful hordes swarming to crush anyone who dissents from the precepts of our current corrupt establishment.
There’s nothing new about this educated New Class assault on those who aren’t properly awed in the presence of their betters. Modern era intellectuals used the term Middlebrow to deride…
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I remember watching a documentary on his life and was surprised by this connection with art. I don’t know why I was. But i was.
Thanks for sharing! I love his belief art is for everyone and making it accessible, the same mission we find ourselves on.
I went to a show on that artist they thought might have been Jack The Ripper, Walter Sickert? You ever seen his work? D.I.S.T.U.R.B.I.N.G.
You know, I have not seen Sickert’s work. I’ll have to take a look. I did hear that he was one of the suspects but I don’t think he was considered a major suspect.
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