Some say its Not art .I ,say He made more sense than any lieing Political trash that should be splattered on a canvas. In ,memorium To THEIR attrocities. Do you know what that Japanese symbol means//
McCarthy has often ridiculed the notion of the tortured artist, going back to the Black & White Tapes . This is perhaps the clearest example of him playing the clown to deflate the myth of the heroic male painter.
It's such a shame to see Neil Buchanan like this, he had something brilliant with Art Attack but unfortunately it all got too much for him. That's the trouble with artists who just don't know when to stop, I'm reminded of the tragic final performances of Elvis Presley. Neil wouldn't want us to remember him for this, but rather for all the joy and laughter that he brought to so many children (myself included) and for all the creativity he inspired. God Bless you Neil.
@wellgoodsafeperson he's alive and commenting on the world. It ought not be subjugated to any obvious distinction as you've suggeted. Grow babies with spongebob. He's readily available. Yum; and have fbn!
How exactly do you know that? And just why would McCarthy do that? Have you even listened to the McCarthy interviews with Family Tyranny and what not? He has SUBSTANCE. So far, all your argument for Kinkade has been that he spends more time on paintings.....so essentially more time equals more meaningful? That makes no sense
well i was talking about art in general. Hey do you remember when you brought up Kinkade, a painter when the discussion was about McCarthy who is a perfomance artist. Yeah the ideas of beauty, being commercial, and being artsy can be found in any medium.
The thing about PM is that he needs you more than you need him. It's not really a criticism, more a statement about the condition of conceptual/performative art. Without the contextual apparatus of society, it's all rather meaningless,but almost everything is like that. Beauty is essentiallu meaningless, too...but still useful, as say, a sign of good genes. As always, implicate yourself. and do it with style. That's arph.
never seen any mccarthy before but it seems like this is just making fun of art teachers and the idea of theorizing for hours and hours more than you actually work on something. which makes some of these comments seem a bit off to me...
last week i spent a couple of hours praying to my favourite picture makers at tate modern. pollock picasso etc etc... finally ended up in maccarthy's room. Its a dead end space with loads of projectors pushing various of his pictures on to the walls... I concluded my worship after seeing Maccarthies pictures singing 'go the mass has ended children of the lord....' ... after pollock there has to be maccarthy. exultation!!! hes the top and bottom. good work.
He's so brilliant at capturing how it feels to want to create, and to want to create and create, and to want and want and want more, and to deal with all the voices and frustrations. I now remember why I loved him in college. It's great to discover Paul McCarthy again!
I recently discovered Paul McCarthy in a exhibition at TATE in London, he completely blow my mind! This guy is a genius! The piece was called Projecion Room (1971-2006).
if i was the head of the BBC i would replace eastenders with this , i would love to see what people would say when they settle down to watch a bit of eastenders and on comes some awesome yet bizzare performance art , if only i could film peoples reactions.
I saw some of this guys work in the tate galery in london. Boy is it fucked up. it was some of his video art were he 'pulls his own penis off'. i am scarred for life. can some body explain to me how that and this is art. thanks
Art isn't always about beauty. It's about exposure to emotion. This guy doesn't want you to feel happy with video's of ducks swimming in a lake, he wants to rip out your deepest horrification's and force you to realize the nature of this world. Because it's fucked up.
Art is a commentary on society. That's it's function.
I fail to see how pretty paintings of Jesus and kings are art. They are beautiful, yes- so perfectly painted and beautifully done. Just like the job a mortician paints the face of a corpse. It is dead. What is there to be proud of? There is no thought for the creator OR the viewer. What is is function? Beauty? Is that all? That is not art.
paintings, whether triptychs of northern europe or frescoes in Italy, functioned a huge social role in european societies. It told the stories of the bible at a time when religion presided over everyone's lives but most couldn't read or purchase handwritten books. It was also about power over the masses.
As for kings and nobles hired artists to do portraits to construct their appropriate image for the public; definitely not just for having pretty and realistic illustrations of themselves.
The notion that art is commentary on society started only appearing the rise of romanticism (aka the permanent revolution of european art toward modern art). Before that artists were thought more of as craftsmen, laborers. Of course there have been legendary artists like Michelangelo who've been constructing the "myth" of the artist, but the idea that artists have special insight to the society only really started appearing after romantic and realist artists became "starving" artists.
honestly what do you see when you watch this. Can you comprehend it without presumption? It's made for today's art audience who drool over art for shock value and wow effect but presents nothing that is tangible and gets in touch with society and our world. I've seen performances similar to McCarthy. Notably by viennese actionists it was just thoroughly disgusting and had nothing understandable to offer to us even if they claim rationale behind their works. It merely becomes a cryptic message.
@crossingthechannel So there is clearly something "tangible"in his work that you are failing to appreciate. You speak of todays "art audience" with such distain, was yesterdays so much better?
I also recently watched Tracy Emin (another prominent contemporary artist) talking about her works in Venice Biennale. She talks of following her instincts and train of thought in sketching and see where that can lead her. Great artists used brains as much as intuition. The fact is, the whole myth of the artist has gone too far to the point of pretentiousness and irrationality out of sync with the actual world we live in.
Art is a lot about perception. The time of presenting historical/biblical significance is gone, is dead. And personally, I'm glad.
Yes, I am able to comprehend this. Actually since Paul McCarthy was a painter and has been inside that realm, it focuses on the downfall of the artist and the destruction of that glorification.
I think this does use brains as much as intuition.
Art is not about conforming to the actual world we live in.
@crossingthechannel "The fact is, the whole myth of the artist has gone too far to the point of pretentiousness and irrationality out of sync with the actual world we live in." Well that is exactly what McCarthy is criticizing in this performance, the whole image of the "Heroic" artist (Polloack, DeKooning, Picasso ect). He is trying to deconstruct this macho self image that people identify art with.
I listen to things beautiful and not, if they have content, actually.
I'm not discrediting 'real talent'. I'm saying 'real talent' involves content. Content is what's important, more so than beauty. If it's just beauty, it's nothing more than commercial.
I like beautiful things but I know that it doesn't possess any true meaning or content worthy of my time or appreciation. That's all really, and I support ChannelCassie's argument....I'd take this guy's stuff as art than a dumb fool like Thomas Kinkade who paints "pretty things" for the masses.
Just because something is beautiful doesn't mean that its not meaningful. And yes Kinkade is commercial as it gets.He has an amazing talent to create beautiful and pretty things. Would you rather him throw condiments on a canvas and end up with something that looks like a child's finger-painting. I'm sure the latter would be much more pleasing to the artsy mind, but there is still meaning in his work. He probably doesn't view his art as "work" but still a release from the stress of everyday life
I'm sorry, then what, in the realm of ART, has a mind worth pleasing other than an "ARTsy" mind? In addition, you say "But there is meaning in his work" yes, you are right, there is meaning; completely horrible useless meaning BUT IT'S SO PRETTY LOOK AT THAT FINAL FANTASY-ESQUE COLORATION WITH PHOTOSHOP BLURRINESS!
McCarthy could never do what Kinkade does. Kinkade could do what McCarthy does in a minute. A Kinkade painting takes hours, and a McCarthy painting takes minutes. Yeah real meaning. Like I said to the other girl, if you are that against beauy you should listen to no real music. Your favorite song should be comprised of random noises that don't have any type of melody. (ex: clock ticking, dogs barking, men sneezing, glass breaking) You should love it though because "beauty in art is meaningless"
And lets not bring music into this as that is a completely different medium, sorry if you're running out of debate ammo. If that run on example of sound effects you're saying is what I listen to because it's so damn obscure and you can't wrap your mind around obscurity, then I'm afraid you're no fit for any kind of worthwhile input in the art world.
no one intelligent is going to respond to you because you show you have ZERO knowledge about art history. Without knowing history you will never understand contemporary art. Anyone could have also put a urinal on a pedestal too, but didn't. Who is against beauty? You just don't understand. Please educate yourself before you go leaving ignorant, nonsensical comments! and what a stupid comment about music! ever hear of John Cage? lol as if time decides if art is good or not. mind boggling.
Actually i am somewhat educated in the history of art. You clearly didn't read the other people's comments. They said that beautiful things don't possess any true meaning or content worthy of their time or appreciation. So before you tell me to learn more about art history, I think you should learn to read. Yes, I do know John Cage, and I do find his work interesting, but his work really just continues to speak the same message: that any noise or no noises can be considered art.
Part 2: So yes, I do like John Cage's work. But do you have his music on your Ipod or CD or whatever you may use. Probably not, And if you do, you probably have it on their so you can show your friends his interesting music, or maybe it is used to fall asleep to. You probably don't just listen to it for pleasure. And what were you talking about when I said that time decides if art is good or not. When did I say that, I don't remember.
If someone throws condiments at a canvas and creates something that can actually make a significant statement about modern day society like Paul McCarthy does, then that individual wins. At least over Thomas Kinkade who obviously needs a lot of stress taken out of his multi million dollar life.
It's not like Kinkade originally started doing art to make money. He obviously loved painting realistic things and realised he could make money doing it. And every artsy person loves to think that real art reflects society. No it doesn't. If you were shown a finger painting by a two-year old and a condiment painting by McCarthy,And you were not told that they were both by McCarthy, you would praise them both as having a great insight into today's society even though one was done by an infant.
McCarthy never claimed an authority on creativity or an insight into the human condition. Personally I rather enjoy his work. Perhaps enjoy isn't the right word. When I see it I often feel disgusted, horrified, awkward, and embarrassed, but I cannot look away. His work is about pushing the emotional limits of both himself and his audience, not about making something pretty.
And by the way, artists still create work for kings, except those "kings" today are corporations and those artists work in advertising agencies. It's really no different when you think about it.
Nah it was closeted back then too. Sure we get pretentious nutjobs and a crappy bourgeoisie art 'industry' nowadays but that's a byproduct of artistic freedom. Feel free to wax nostalgic about a time when you could be EXECUTED for deviating from the protracted 'norm' in art.
thank you. im a video student doing video art right now and i enjoy alot of video art but all of McCarthy's stuff is completely ridiculous worthless shit. its not art its a foolish waste of time.
I'm fuckin' painting, I'm fuckin' painting, what you have to do..I'm fuckin' painting, I'm fuckin' painting, try to understand, the emotions, I'm fuckin, paintin' OK, So, If you want, try to mix, one kit, I can't do that any more, you can't do that any more, please don't do it.. you can't do it any more... I'm tryin' to paint...
McCarthys' genius sprang from latent energy stored from climbing the rope in his high school gym. He was later able to levitate, read peoples thoughts and had lucid dreams. Someone once said that man lives in his sleep and in sleep, he dies.
I've only seen portions of bossy burger and want to see the rest.
Mccarthy's grotesque films have an attracting quality to them for me. Its like being locked in a room with a crazy person for several minutes, who you don't know if they're going to stab you, molest you, dismember/flay you alive, or coat you with their excrement.
I'm fuckin' painting, I'm fuckin' painting, what you have to do..I'm fuckin' painting, I'm fuckin' painting, try to understand, the emotions, I'm fuckin, paintin' OK, So, If you want, try to mix, one kit, I can't do that any more, you can't do that any more, please don't do it.. you can't do it any more... I'm tryin' to paint...
I try to follow what he's saying and I can't half the time. It's the babbling nonsense you'd get from a crazy schizophrenic on a street corner. I think that's the point, really.
Buttplug? Whatever your opinion of Paul McCarthy, one cannot avoid the fact that his work makes an overwhelming impression. People who are faced with it for the first time probably react with a mixture of horror, curiosity and disdain, but the attentive reviewer will not miss its humor and penetration. He is one of a generation of artists who react to the Minamal Art and Conceptual Art of the sixties by restoring the link between artistic activity and harsh reality. + McCarthy is slightly insane
I believe the greatest gift I can give to anybody is my silence and my four most cherished proverbs are; If one plants poison ivy, one does not get to pick strawberries, what you think of me is none of my business, we may not always get what we want but we always get what we expect and, we cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. I do my best to live by The Golden Rule.
I've seen this video before in the Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin) and I loved it, much to the confusion of the people I was with (we were there as part of a course not by choice). My first introduction to Mr McCarthy was a bronze version of 'Santa with a Buttplug' outside the Boijmanns Van Beuningen gallery in Rotterdam. Haha, I love it!
who says its not art? the public, art critics or you? if it is your opinion, what do you base your opinion on? I'll assume that "art," for you has to be say, beautiful or something like that. Well if all art is beautiful then, it limits itself to what it can talk about. It can only be about beautiful things. Art is a view on life, and life is quite ugly sometimes. So "ugly," things, can still be artistic in nature and vice versa.
android90beats...good points! That is a much more graspable idea for the non-Artist than the Art Historical model citing DuChamp...Artist declares it to be Art. I will have to try that arguement out sometime.
i think sometimes "art," is its own worst enemy in terms of its name ( A - R - T ) this is art! bow down before me!!!!/ or maybe in this case, MY AESTHETIC IS BEYOND YOUR SENSIBILITY. Also i think people have preconceptions of it performing for an idealistic outdated notion of beauty or expression. oh its symbolises his inner turmoil - yadda yadda, whatever. if we break it down with an open mind, unpretentiously, then it becomes alot more relevant/valid. or then again thats just an opinion ;)
This is a terrific satire on the Art world. Especially more so with the seriousness of expressionist painters. But, you guys have to see the scene with the art dealer in order to really get the point of this video.
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Its like watching a semi retarded child who has been left alone. What a f*cking headache. Next time someone can just plow me in the head with a 2x4 and call that art.
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if anyone does something stupid enough people will look - if he calls himself an artist, and he does stupider shit than other artists, you get people like this guy
You're all going to feel pretty stupid about his 'genius' when they find the bodies under his house. Hehehehe. Psychos either paint or kill, I guess. Mumbles. Maybe that's why they call him LA's gross out artist. Wtf? I'm confused. What was that? Whatever your opinion of Paul McCarthy, one cannot avoid the fact that his work makes an overwhelming impression. The attenative reviewer will not miss it's humor and penetration. Humor and penetration is right. This man is obsessed with the penis..
i love the art-agent woman at the gallery scene when McCarthy destroys a "priceless work of art"...he is amazing as a concept maker and performer of this piece
i ve watched this video several times in a video art class and its really interesing the fact that you discover something new every time you see it.....witty,cynical
Ah yes, I didn't even go near that. It looked real indeed. It was like some horrorflick and the guy could wake up any time. I was genuinely frightened.. Maybe it's because we're constantly confronted with these kind of scenes (as with his dismemberment movies) because of watching TV about 7 hours a day. (on average 7 hours, that is..)
"...its humor and penetration." you said it, penetration. I've been to the art expo in SMAK ghent and I can honestly say I didn't enter a room without seeing a penis. The man is obsessed with that bodypart, apparently. And yes, slightly insane. Putting a sausage up your ass, spells wacko to me.
I think he's sending up the whole idea of the "genius" artist going back to Picasso - you know the schtick - waiting for the moment when creativity and imagination burst forth - kind of like what happens with an overturned ketchup bottle.
McCarthy ne condamne pas Hollywood mais utilise ce monde pour creer ses propres parodies. Il nous amene dans les coulisses d'Hollywood, un monde violent et obscur dans lequel domaine le caractere pulsionnel et libedineux de l'homme
i like how he always uses food in his work somehow. i watched this one where he smeared ketchup all over his body and face and painted with his face and head.
Thanks for posting this. Did you check out the one I posted? I'm no art scholar and my comments reflect the obvious but me thinks the emporer has no clothes. The bigger than lifesize sculptures were a thrill, but...
I've come across this guys work in many of my books and magazines for years and had to imagine how his performance would sound until today- Many thanks for posting this!
I saw this in Genova, Italy in 2004
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fascinating look into the creative process of an artistic genius
loljk
Verschrankung 5 months ago
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Verschrankung 5 months ago
@wellgoodsafeperson
i see what you did there
paulricheystudio 5 months ago
It's "Fuck the Painting"
dimlight49 10 months ago
craaaaazy muthafucka lol
GlitchHalo 1 year ago
who is that guy?
ledzepp423 1 year ago
crazy... all artists
LadyMoon1102 1 year ago
jajajajaj I LOVE !!1 THI ARTIST JAJAJJA
camilpizarro 1 year ago
DE KOONING!
JunkFoodProductions 1 year ago
fuck a penny, fuck a painting, clocklepaily?????
tallbluesocks 1 year ago
@tallbluesocks cocklepaily haha!!!!
astramistil1 7 months ago
This is a little bit scary. It's funny too.
MissIcia 1 year ago
Some say its Not art .I ,say He made more sense than any lieing Political trash that should be splattered on a canvas. In ,memorium To THEIR attrocities. Do you know what that Japanese symbol means//
DYNODRUM 1 year ago
My favourite part of this film was when he span in circles singing "deKooning".
Neonman78 1 year ago 3
I would love to put that giant tube of paint labelled "SHIT" in my living room.
singinglawnchair 1 year ago
What does Neil Buchanan have to do with anything?
This is McCarthy. He's making fun of de Kooning.
unifiedpeace 1 year ago 6
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LuvInAction 1 year ago 3
McCarthy has often ridiculed the notion of the tortured artist, going back to the Black & White Tapes . This is perhaps the clearest example of him playing the clown to deflate the myth of the heroic male painter.
doghammerbiscuit 1 year ago 3
lsd, with phycotics.
oblongfan1 1 year ago
you are so poor.. seee more bitte freund
Imthewalrus09 1 year ago
lsd for sure
macplo 1 year ago
he's very much like what he's portraying in that he's shouting inanely, childishly "I HAVE A POINT TO MAKE I HAVE A POINT TO MAKE". also not art.
Ratama 1 year ago
What is art?
Fapsamup 1 year ago
@Ratama Ha, you're an idiot and it's funny.
Ultrasecond 1 year ago
i do cocaine
bobcatmonster 2 years ago
santa chocolate shop
and was this an installatoin or what?
Xxaprilb223xX 2 years ago
does anybody else think ... cocaine ?
adamsx01x 2 years ago
It's such a shame to see Neil Buchanan like this, he had something brilliant with Art Attack but unfortunately it all got too much for him. That's the trouble with artists who just don't know when to stop, I'm reminded of the tragic final performances of Elvis Presley. Neil wouldn't want us to remember him for this, but rather for all the joy and laughter that he brought to so many children (myself included) and for all the creativity he inspired. God Bless you Neil.
wellgoodsafeperson 2 years ago 19
@wellgoodsafeperson he's alive and commenting on the world. It ought not be subjugated to any obvious distinction as you've suggeted. Grow babies with spongebob. He's readily available. Yum; and have fbn!
ericberner 1 year ago
@wellgoodsafeperson Isn't this Paul McCarthy? Who is Neil Buchanan?
sybercat6 11 months ago 6
@sybercat6 Type in "Art Attack" to see Neil Buchanan in his prime, it will bring a tear to your eye.
wellgoodsafeperson 11 months ago
How exactly do you know that? And just why would McCarthy do that? Have you even listened to the McCarthy interviews with Family Tyranny and what not? He has SUBSTANCE. So far, all your argument for Kinkade has been that he spends more time on paintings.....so essentially more time equals more meaningful? That makes no sense
lisabuttface 2 years ago
well i was talking about art in general. Hey do you remember when you brought up Kinkade, a painter when the discussion was about McCarthy who is a perfomance artist. Yeah the ideas of beauty, being commercial, and being artsy can be found in any medium.
noclip14 2 years ago
The thing about PM is that he needs you more than you need him. It's not really a criticism, more a statement about the condition of conceptual/performative art. Without the contextual apparatus of society, it's all rather meaningless,but almost everything is like that. Beauty is essentiallu meaningless, too...but still useful, as say, a sign of good genes. As always, implicate yourself. and do it with style. That's arph.
johnnyaught 2 years ago
Wat
Shnbit 2 years ago
never seen any mccarthy before but it seems like this is just making fun of art teachers and the idea of theorizing for hours and hours more than you actually work on something. which makes some of these comments seem a bit off to me...
Gibbons3000 2 years ago
kinda thought hed be a little more composed than this...
Chubachus 2 years ago
Bob Ross from PBS....
GOLDENTALLYWACKER 2 years ago
...mumbles, Okay, ROK,
OK, what you have to do....
Try to listen, don't pay much attention...
I can't paint anymore, I'm fukkin' paintin'...
GOLDENTALLYWACKER 2 years ago 2
last week i spent a couple of hours praying to my favourite picture makers at tate modern. pollock picasso etc etc... finally ended up in maccarthy's room. Its a dead end space with loads of projectors pushing various of his pictures on to the walls... I concluded my worship after seeing Maccarthies pictures singing 'go the mass has ended children of the lord....' ... after pollock there has to be maccarthy. exultation!!! hes the top and bottom. good work.
ChristopherWatcher 2 years ago
He's so brilliant at capturing how it feels to want to create, and to want to create and create, and to want and want and want more, and to deal with all the voices and frustrations. I now remember why I loved him in college. It's great to discover Paul McCarthy again!
MattieCooper 2 years ago
Burro como um pintor
porfavormeudeus 2 years ago
modern art! makes me! want to rock out!
drunkenbutterfly001 2 years ago
I recently discovered Paul McCarthy in a exhibition at TATE in London, he completely blow my mind! This guy is a genius! The piece was called Projecion Room (1971-2006).
Gimbe76 2 years ago
I am so fucking excited that this guy graduated from the art school I'm attending after summer.
ChannelCassie 2 years ago
UC Davis?
crazydharma 2 years ago
utter genius
tedstriker007 2 years ago
dude, is this guy like, legally insane??? Or on some hard drugs, or something?? What a freak!!
1AmericaForever1 2 years ago
i would LOVE to have this guy as my college art professor
Fruuze 2 years ago
if i was the head of the BBC i would replace eastenders with this , i would love to see what people would say when they settle down to watch a bit of eastenders and on comes some awesome yet bizzare performance art , if only i could film peoples reactions.
nicholasjames100 2 years ago
I saw some of this guys work in the tate galery in london. Boy is it fucked up. it was some of his video art were he 'pulls his own penis off'. i am scarred for life. can some body explain to me how that and this is art. thanks
tomb982 2 years ago 3
Explain to me how it isn't art.
Art isn't always about beauty. It's about exposure to emotion. This guy doesn't want you to feel happy with video's of ducks swimming in a lake, he wants to rip out your deepest horrification's and force you to realize the nature of this world. Because it's fucked up.
ChannelCassie 2 years ago
art has become a cesspool of talentless nutcases claiming an authority on creativity and insight into human condition.
I'd rather prefer an age when artists created for kings, church, the public. It's now a closeted world of pretense.
crossingthechannel 2 years ago 2
Art is a commentary on society. That's it's function.
I fail to see how pretty paintings of Jesus and kings are art. They are beautiful, yes- so perfectly painted and beautifully done. Just like the job a mortician paints the face of a corpse. It is dead. What is there to be proud of? There is no thought for the creator OR the viewer. What is is function? Beauty? Is that all? That is not art.
ChannelCassie 2 years ago
paintings, whether triptychs of northern europe or frescoes in Italy, functioned a huge social role in european societies. It told the stories of the bible at a time when religion presided over everyone's lives but most couldn't read or purchase handwritten books. It was also about power over the masses.
As for kings and nobles hired artists to do portraits to construct their appropriate image for the public; definitely not just for having pretty and realistic illustrations of themselves.
crossingthechannel 2 years ago
The notion that art is commentary on society started only appearing the rise of romanticism (aka the permanent revolution of european art toward modern art). Before that artists were thought more of as craftsmen, laborers. Of course there have been legendary artists like Michelangelo who've been constructing the "myth" of the artist, but the idea that artists have special insight to the society only really started appearing after romantic and realist artists became "starving" artists.
crossingthechannel 2 years ago
honestly what do you see when you watch this. Can you comprehend it without presumption? It's made for today's art audience who drool over art for shock value and wow effect but presents nothing that is tangible and gets in touch with society and our world. I've seen performances similar to McCarthy. Notably by viennese actionists it was just thoroughly disgusting and had nothing understandable to offer to us even if they claim rationale behind their works. It merely becomes a cryptic message.
crossingthechannel 2 years ago 2
@crossingthechannel So there is clearly something "tangible"in his work that you are failing to appreciate. You speak of todays "art audience" with such distain, was yesterdays so much better?
almanacofsleep 1 year ago
I also recently watched Tracy Emin (another prominent contemporary artist) talking about her works in Venice Biennale. She talks of following her instincts and train of thought in sketching and see where that can lead her. Great artists used brains as much as intuition. The fact is, the whole myth of the artist has gone too far to the point of pretentiousness and irrationality out of sync with the actual world we live in.
crossingthechannel 2 years ago
Art is a lot about perception. The time of presenting historical/biblical significance is gone, is dead. And personally, I'm glad.
Yes, I am able to comprehend this. Actually since Paul McCarthy was a painter and has been inside that realm, it focuses on the downfall of the artist and the destruction of that glorification.
I think this does use brains as much as intuition.
Art is not about conforming to the actual world we live in.
ChannelCassie 2 years ago 2
@crossingthechannel "The fact is, the whole myth of the artist has gone too far to the point of pretentiousness and irrationality out of sync with the actual world we live in." Well that is exactly what McCarthy is criticizing in this performance, the whole image of the "Heroic" artist (Polloack, DeKooning, Picasso ect). He is trying to deconstruct this macho self image that people identify art with.
almanacofsleep 1 year ago
Were you listening to the man at all? He's just fucking painting.
Fezziekid 2 years ago
Were YOU listening to the man at all?
"You can't do it anymore"
ChannelCassie 2 years ago
What kind of music do you listen to. Probably nothing beautiful right. Quit trying to discredit real talent. Art is the idea of cosmic beauty.
noclip14 2 years ago
I listen to things beautiful and not, if they have content, actually.
I'm not discrediting 'real talent'. I'm saying 'real talent' involves content. Content is what's important, more so than beauty. If it's just beauty, it's nothing more than commercial.
ChannelCassie 2 years ago
So beauty is considered commercial. You must live a sad life
noclip14 2 years ago
Beauty is used for commercial more than anything.
lisabuttface 2 years ago 2
So are you saying that you don't like beautiful things, what is your point?
noclip14 2 years ago
I like beautiful things but I know that it doesn't possess any true meaning or content worthy of my time or appreciation. That's all really, and I support ChannelCassie's argument....I'd take this guy's stuff as art than a dumb fool like Thomas Kinkade who paints "pretty things" for the masses.
lisabuttface 2 years ago 2
Just because something is beautiful doesn't mean that its not meaningful. And yes Kinkade is commercial as it gets.He has an amazing talent to create beautiful and pretty things. Would you rather him throw condiments on a canvas and end up with something that looks like a child's finger-painting. I'm sure the latter would be much more pleasing to the artsy mind, but there is still meaning in his work. He probably doesn't view his art as "work" but still a release from the stress of everyday life
noclip14 2 years ago
I'm sorry, then what, in the realm of ART, has a mind worth pleasing other than an "ARTsy" mind? In addition, you say "But there is meaning in his work" yes, you are right, there is meaning; completely horrible useless meaning BUT IT'S SO PRETTY LOOK AT THAT FINAL FANTASY-ESQUE COLORATION WITH PHOTOSHOP BLURRINESS!
lisabuttface 2 years ago
McCarthy could never do what Kinkade does. Kinkade could do what McCarthy does in a minute. A Kinkade painting takes hours, and a McCarthy painting takes minutes. Yeah real meaning. Like I said to the other girl, if you are that against beauy you should listen to no real music. Your favorite song should be comprised of random noises that don't have any type of melody. (ex: clock ticking, dogs barking, men sneezing, glass breaking) You should love it though because "beauty in art is meaningless"
noclip14 2 years ago
And lets not bring music into this as that is a completely different medium, sorry if you're running out of debate ammo. If that run on example of sound effects you're saying is what I listen to because it's so damn obscure and you can't wrap your mind around obscurity, then I'm afraid you're no fit for any kind of worthwhile input in the art world.
lisabuttface 2 years ago
no one intelligent is going to respond to you because you show you have ZERO knowledge about art history. Without knowing history you will never understand contemporary art. Anyone could have also put a urinal on a pedestal too, but didn't. Who is against beauty? You just don't understand. Please educate yourself before you go leaving ignorant, nonsensical comments! and what a stupid comment about music! ever hear of John Cage? lol as if time decides if art is good or not. mind boggling.
lloplop 2 years ago
Actually i am somewhat educated in the history of art. You clearly didn't read the other people's comments. They said that beautiful things don't possess any true meaning or content worthy of their time or appreciation. So before you tell me to learn more about art history, I think you should learn to read. Yes, I do know John Cage, and I do find his work interesting, but his work really just continues to speak the same message: that any noise or no noises can be considered art.
noclip14 2 years ago
Part 2: So yes, I do like John Cage's work. But do you have his music on your Ipod or CD or whatever you may use. Probably not, And if you do, you probably have it on their so you can show your friends his interesting music, or maybe it is used to fall asleep to. You probably don't just listen to it for pleasure. And what were you talking about when I said that time decides if art is good or not. When did I say that, I don't remember.
noclip14 2 years ago
@noclip14 McCarthy's not a painter...
almanacofsleep 1 year ago
@almanacofsleep I never said he was. I said he was a performance artist.
noclip14 1 year ago
@almanacofsleep yes. yes he is.
DinnenG 3 days ago
If someone throws condiments at a canvas and creates something that can actually make a significant statement about modern day society like Paul McCarthy does, then that individual wins. At least over Thomas Kinkade who obviously needs a lot of stress taken out of his multi million dollar life.
lisabuttface 2 years ago
It's not like Kinkade originally started doing art to make money. He obviously loved painting realistic things and realised he could make money doing it. And every artsy person loves to think that real art reflects society. No it doesn't. If you were shown a finger painting by a two-year old and a condiment painting by McCarthy,And you were not told that they were both by McCarthy, you would praise them both as having a great insight into today's society even though one was done by an infant.
noclip14 2 years ago
McCarthy never claimed an authority on creativity or an insight into the human condition. Personally I rather enjoy his work. Perhaps enjoy isn't the right word. When I see it I often feel disgusted, horrified, awkward, and embarrassed, but I cannot look away. His work is about pushing the emotional limits of both himself and his audience, not about making something pretty.
Rocketboy5 2 years ago
And by the way, artists still create work for kings, except those "kings" today are corporations and those artists work in advertising agencies. It's really no different when you think about it.
Rocketboy5 2 years ago
Nah it was closeted back then too. Sure we get pretentious nutjobs and a crappy bourgeoisie art 'industry' nowadays but that's a byproduct of artistic freedom. Feel free to wax nostalgic about a time when you could be EXECUTED for deviating from the protracted 'norm' in art.
Ultrasecond 2 years ago
thank you. im a video student doing video art right now and i enjoy alot of video art but all of McCarthy's stuff is completely ridiculous worthless shit. its not art its a foolish waste of time.
kingjowl 2 years ago
He actually pulled his actual penis off? I agree with you at the absurdity.
tkmslee 2 years ago
No he didn't...did he really or are you confusuing him with Schortzcogler
fek315 2 years ago
I'm fuckin' painting, I'm fuckin' painting, what you have to do..I'm fuckin' painting, I'm fuckin' painting, try to understand, the emotions, I'm fuckin, paintin' OK, So, If you want, try to mix, one kit, I can't do that any more, you can't do that any more, please don't do it.. you can't do it any more... I'm tryin' to paint...
GOLDENTALLYWACKER 2 years ago
McCarthys' genius sprang from latent energy stored from climbing the rope in his high school gym. He was later able to levitate, read peoples thoughts and had lucid dreams. Someone once said that man lives in his sleep and in sleep, he dies.
GOLDENTALLYWACKER 2 years ago
Genius.
fast711 2 years ago
This is absolute garbage. The artistic community should be ashamed for calling this art.
tkmslee 2 years ago
your mom is garbage
BlooOcean 2 years ago
I totally agree
tomb982 2 years ago 2
That is what he wants you to think.
crazydharma 2 years ago
Pretty sure the point of this is that 'modern art is garbage made by infantile spoiled crazy people.'
Ultrasecond 2 years ago
i love this guy!
chickengeorge1236 2 years ago
I wonder if McCarthy will have chocolate Easter bunny butt plugs this year....
GOLDENTALLYWACKER 2 years ago 2
I like how he makes the satire about artists, acting all crazy XD Now that's an art too~
BlooOcean 2 years ago
no, this is true to an artist's life, lol. i thought this was a documentary.
ghostsonatasong 2 years ago
his film bully burger is better.
he keeps repeating wht he says so we loose the meaning, "there is nothing more meaningful than loosing the meaning" apparently ...
alicebinns 2 years ago
I've only seen portions of bossy burger and want to see the rest.
Mccarthy's grotesque films have an attracting quality to them for me. Its like being locked in a room with a crazy person for several minutes, who you don't know if they're going to stab you, molest you, dismember/flay you alive, or coat you with their excrement.
Ultrasecond 2 years ago
hahaahah wtf!
retardedgenius310 3 years ago
I'm fuckin' painting, I'm fuckin' painting, what you have to do..I'm fuckin' painting, I'm fuckin' painting, try to understand, the emotions, I'm fuckin, paintin' OK, So, If you want, try to mix, one kit, I can't do that any more, you can't do that any more, please don't do it.. you can't do it any more... I'm tryin' to paint...
JohnBrownEye 3 years ago 4
I try to follow what he's saying and I can't half the time. It's the babbling nonsense you'd get from a crazy schizophrenic on a street corner. I think that's the point, really.
Ultrasecond 2 years ago 2
saw this in ireland and i felt nothing but irretated i suppose it was a reaction
ninawillams 3 years ago
i like the noise.
BumSlave 3 years ago
mmmm kaint do it anymore
try to paint?
try to paint like theas try to paint?
mankaloo 3 years ago
favors bo-selecta
physicalhate 3 years ago
peinturlure!
floserber 3 years ago
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Over-rated shit by a hack artist.
But with Hauser & Wirth, you must be promoted endlessly.
LJD25 3 years ago
Buttplug? Whatever your opinion of Paul McCarthy, one cannot avoid the fact that his work makes an overwhelming impression. People who are faced with it for the first time probably react with a mixture of horror, curiosity and disdain, but the attentive reviewer will not miss its humor and penetration. He is one of a generation of artists who react to the Minamal Art and Conceptual Art of the sixties by restoring the link between artistic activity and harsh reality. + McCarthy is slightly insane
GreyGhostSr 3 years ago
bullshit
ConranMcC 3 years ago
imagine having sex with this guy?
Id rather eat shit.
MIDJOBZ 3 years ago
Something tells us that you are missing the point.
xsassysays 3 years ago 4
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xsassysays 3 years ago
love you paul. the best teacher a student could ask 4. a day dosent go by that i dont think about you.
beachbongbabes 3 years ago
è una gran schifezza sta cosa.
Arte?
arte è il mio pugno che gli sfonda il cranio.
mithria 3 years ago
I believe the greatest gift I can give to anybody is my silence and my four most cherished proverbs are; If one plants poison ivy, one does not get to pick strawberries, what you think of me is none of my business, we may not always get what we want but we always get what we expect and, we cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. I do my best to live by The Golden Rule.
BrunoHockaLoogie 3 years ago 3
What's that supposed to mean?
tlkSmack1 3 years ago
sarcastic and twisted amazing way to see the white canvas!!!!!
paulfuguet 3 years ago
pants.
shaymultimedia 3 years ago
I've seen this video before in the Hugh Lane Gallery (Dublin) and I loved it, much to the confusion of the people I was with (we were there as part of a course not by choice). My first introduction to Mr McCarthy was a bronze version of 'Santa with a Buttplug' outside the Boijmanns Van Beuningen gallery in Rotterdam. Haha, I love it!
persebela 3 years ago
man i have watched this like 150 times in a row its truly amazing and really speaks to me
sacrificaltotem 3 years ago
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it's not art :/
LockedPig 3 years ago
who says its not art? the public, art critics or you? if it is your opinion, what do you base your opinion on? I'll assume that "art," for you has to be say, beautiful or something like that. Well if all art is beautiful then, it limits itself to what it can talk about. It can only be about beautiful things. Art is a view on life, and life is quite ugly sometimes. So "ugly," things, can still be artistic in nature and vice versa.
android90beats 3 years ago 4
android90beats...good points! That is a much more graspable idea for the non-Artist than the Art Historical model citing DuChamp...Artist declares it to be Art. I will have to try that arguement out sometime.
abeferraro 3 years ago
i think sometimes "art," is its own worst enemy in terms of its name ( A - R - T ) this is art! bow down before me!!!!/ or maybe in this case, MY AESTHETIC IS BEYOND YOUR SENSIBILITY. Also i think people have preconceptions of it performing for an idealistic outdated notion of beauty or expression. oh its symbolises his inner turmoil - yadda yadda, whatever. if we break it down with an open mind, unpretentiously, then it becomes alot more relevant/valid. or then again thats just an opinion ;)
android90beats 3 years ago
Splended, bravo. I particularly love how he represents intangibility over an abstract mind
raunchbear 3 years ago
This is a terrific satire on the Art world. Especially more so with the seriousness of expressionist painters. But, you guys have to see the scene with the art dealer in order to really get the point of this video.
ead1529 3 years ago 5
I love his hands...
Finally he's very metaphoric
jona2286 3 years ago
i love this guy
sacrificaltotem 3 years ago
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Its like watching a semi retarded child who has been left alone. What a f*cking headache. Next time someone can just plow me in the head with a 2x4 and call that art.
TheMiia 3 years ago
Faved because of godlikeness
DeathSephardi 3 years ago
props paul mcarthy!
justinr714 3 years ago
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if anyone does something stupid enough people will look - if he calls himself an artist, and he does stupider shit than other artists, you get people like this guy
sttaffy 3 years ago
Pure, Genius....
TheToIlundMan2 3 years ago 2
eggs ackley
lIlIlIlIlID 3 years ago
lol we're showing this one at the museum where I'm interning right now...it's definitely a surprise for those who don't know what to expect...
KatTaime 3 years ago 2
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watch the last scene of raging bull, it's more poignant & not as depraved. this guy needs to class up his act.
datafork 3 years ago
exellent i love paul mcarthy got any bossy burger footage please>
justinr714 3 years ago 2
You're all going to feel pretty stupid about his 'genius' when they find the bodies under his house. Hehehehe. Psychos either paint or kill, I guess. Mumbles. Maybe that's why they call him LA's gross out artist. Wtf? I'm confused. What was that? Whatever your opinion of Paul McCarthy, one cannot avoid the fact that his work makes an overwhelming impression. The attenative reviewer will not miss it's humor and penetration. Humor and penetration is right. This man is obsessed with the penis..
MollyCutPurse 3 years ago 4
Paul McCarthy's just pissed cuz he can't paint
datafork 3 years ago
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS NONSENSE!
This is tasteless nothing!
sloofuss 3 years ago
A conceptual artist getting in the pants of an expressionist!! Awesome and funny. One of my favorite artist videos ever.
cutterfilm 3 years ago 2
amo la obra de este artista. mezcla de terror+misterio+atie
genio!!!
pirpinto 3 years ago 3
one of my first video's I saw and I was astonished and suprised.
RobertPennekamp 3 years ago 3
i love the art-agent woman at the gallery scene when McCarthy destroys a "priceless work of art"...he is amazing as a concept maker and performer of this piece
nelv16 3 years ago 3
i ve watched this video several times in a video art class and its really interesing the fact that you discover something new every time you see it.....witty,cynical
nelv16 3 years ago 2
Your all gonna feel pretty stupid talking about his 'genius' when they find the bodies under his house.
smedley 3 years ago 5
hehehehehhe
psychos either paint or kill I guess
it's a way of chanelling all they're made of
Like Hitler, he didn't do good at painting so he had to kill
or many serial killers: they had to start painting in jail
still, I gave you thumbs up
that was funny :)
unamor 3 years ago
Ah yes, I didn't even go near that. It looked real indeed. It was like some horrorflick and the guy could wake up any time. I was genuinely frightened.. Maybe it's because we're constantly confronted with these kind of scenes (as with his dismemberment movies) because of watching TV about 7 hours a day. (on average 7 hours, that is..)
Moose1223 3 years ago
Mumbles...
PhilMcCavity1000 3 years ago 6
Wtf? I'm confused. What was that?
zacshuz775 3 years ago
"...its humor and penetration." you said it, penetration. I've been to the art expo in SMAK ghent and I can honestly say I didn't enter a room without seeing a penis. The man is obsessed with that bodypart, apparently. And yes, slightly insane. Putting a sausage up your ass, spells wacko to me.
Moose1223 3 years ago 3
I think he's sending up the whole idea of the "genius" artist going back to Picasso - you know the schtick - waiting for the moment when creativity and imagination burst forth - kind of like what happens with an overturned ketchup bottle.
grosbeak 4 years ago 4
He's making fun of Willem de Kooning in particular.
folklorish 4 years ago 3
McCarthy ne condamne pas Hollywood mais utilise ce monde pour creer ses propres parodies. Il nous amene dans les coulisses d'Hollywood, un monde violent et obscur dans lequel domaine le caractere pulsionnel et libedineux de l'homme
PhilMcCavity1000 4 years ago 3
i like how he always uses food in his work somehow. i watched this one where he smeared ketchup all over his body and face and painted with his face and head.
byemystaryeyes 4 years ago 3
He's attacking the futility of humanity. I don't think he's a fine artist, he's more like a horror film director.
datafork 4 years ago
I suspect that McCarthy would like that comparison, actually.
guigal2 4 years ago
a lot of art is like a horror film..look at goya's paintings
Ultrasecond 2 years ago 11
@Ultrasecond don't even dare to compare Goya to this asshole.
Patafisique 2 weeks ago
mfuckin painting mfuckin painting mfuckin painting mfuckin painting................
mankaloo 4 years ago 5
What is this?
It made me feel like crap. It is stupid and anything but art. It looks like a mentally disabled guy painting.
Reijerkolle 4 years ago
It's a work of satire.
zitothebandito 4 years ago 2
This is great. This mans work has inspired me for a long time.Please check out my art. Just look up jeff driskill.
Jeff
jeffmonk 4 years ago
Absolute genius. Thanks for posting. Any chance you could post Heidi?
tallkellynyc 4 years ago 3
i want to see the whole thang.
baNaNaMaN6 4 years ago 2
super dull
womblt 4 years ago
Thanks for posting this. Did you check out the one I posted? I'm no art scholar and my comments reflect the obvious but me thinks the emporer has no clothes. The bigger than lifesize sculptures were a thrill, but...
NoelGrassy 4 years ago
what a hack, over rated...
echocult 4 years ago
Eh, if you insist, but I thought it had a strange, sinister appeal--and I'm not usually into performance art.
Sesquipedaliantique 4 years ago
FUCK ON PAINTING
quenchedinlife 4 years ago
I've come across this guys work in many of my books and magazines for years and had to imagine how his performance would sound until today- Many thanks for posting this!
ShawnQuinlan 4 years ago
ace i loved it
11Daniel11 4 years ago