BeautyPart1.mov

This is part one of a one hour slide presentation I made in Laguna Beach for American Artist's "Weekend With the Masters" event. It deals with the issues as I see them between traditional and "modern" art.

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I wanted to note one major error in my narration of the video. I incorrectly state that Damien Hirsh's shark sold for
300 million dollars and his next piece for 500 million. The correct figures are 8 million dollars for the shark and 100 million for his
subsequent work of a skull encrusted in diamonds (which was sold to a consortium of "investors," of which the artist himself
was one -- a rather strange way of giving a discount on art without having to say you sold it for less.)
In any case, I apologize for the error. I was bound to make a few, though I don't think it changes my essential point of the fact that
modern art has become more about investment these days than art.
Thanks to Paul Messerschmit for the fact check.
That's the great thing about the internet -- continuously improving what you know by having so many people correct what you thought you knew!

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[14lvl]

How about taking into account that all painting is an abstraction?

Or the fact that some of the most celebrated international artists are realists like Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Sophie Jodoin?

[Wenceslao Futanaki]

fuck those little squares

[Agnotio]

I googled those artists, and, at least to my eye, I don't think their paintings are very beautiful. They still seem to fit in the modern mode of rejection of beauty.

[jsumteri]

I would say that Scott IS certainly becoming a great artist. More importantly, he is a human that hasn't lost sight of the lightness and ephemeral nature of beauty and love.

[AstralBanana]

4:11

So that's your painting?

[platonicdiscourse]

never heard of any of them - and im sure they just do that contemporary paint by numbers type realism. In what way is painting an abstraction? painting is an illusion, a craft

[Tom Szewc]

Scott, I noticed you included yourself and all of the "How To" cronies with works by Michaelango and Velasquez.Really!

The cornies that you put on a pedestal with really great artist are no more than a commercial verneer for emptines, apathy and idealization. The paintings of children with animals and pretty girls in robes with candle light are just a new matrix of indefference. What do they really have to say about the human condition, Nothing! I thought the artist was the genius of the soul.

[Cristian Ceron]

I love you!!!

[AncientIrishCelt]

Watch the rest of the film idiot.

[mequable]

Great film, I'm really impressed. It's last minute is fantastic. You summed up perfectly my opinion.

[yuyiclay]

well said