A very clever painter recently objected to my titling system. She said it was 'too arty'. I agreed. So from now on, I'm asking the viewing public to nominate titles for the drawings. I'm hoping that this will encourage audience participation and kick the tumbleweeds out of the comments section. And if I want to title something, I'll just post it in the comments like anyone else.
In standard diabolical fashion, I've instituted this new rule on the very same day that I've posted four drawings which depict the aftermath of a fatal car wreck. Yeah, I've shut down all you wags who were sitting there with a laundry list of cutesy, clever, witty titles all ready to go.
So my nomination for title of this post is 'crickets chirping'. Good night.
13 comments:
FUCK THA POLICE
self portrait
Shouldn't that be Untitled (FckThPlc)? I will refrain from commenting on the notion of a "clever painter" calling anything "too arty"...
Maybe a J.G. Ballard caption is in order:
"...a terrifying almanac of imaginary automobile disasters and insane wounds - the lungs of elderly men punctured by door handles, the chests of young women impaled by steering columns..."
OR:
"...in the complex geometries of a dented fender, in the unexpected variations of crushed radiator grilles..."
Talk about arty...
P.S. Pamela thinks having people make titles for your drawings is dumb. (It is, however, at least effective so far at generating comments)
Well LeisureArts, there are arty painters, and then there are ARTY painters. You yourself would score high on the artiness scale, no matter how hard you try to distinguish yourself by 'not making anything'. So there.
If the purpose of having people title my work is to generate comments, and more comments are generated under the new policy, how can the new policy be dumb?
Besides, aren't you a fan of Mark Kostabi? Talk about arty and dumb.
And it's not like I'm going to use any of these idiots' titles. Uh...Oh... am I still miked?
I made a note of my "artiness" in my own comment, and thus your bark has no bite.
I don't think Pamela realized that the title thing was only a device to generate comments. I think she thought it was an abdication of responsibility AND a device, but I will correct her.
I am not a "fan" of Kostabi's, but I do take a certain perverse pleasure in the pure cynicism of his endeavors. Surely you recognize his "arty" is a far cry from oh, say, Julie Mehretu's "arty." He is a self-proclaimed genius, she is a MacArthur genius - yawn.
If you think you're going to bait me by attacking Julie Mehretu, you're out of luck. If she and Mark Kostabi were both stuck in quicksand, and I could only save one of them, I would go hunt down a empanada vendor so I could have something to eat while I watched them both die horribly.
Jokes like that are why I'll never have a career in the art world.
007, I am not a car wreck. I am a train wreck. I once was in love with a four-alarm-fire, but it didn't work out.
Mehretu was simply a point of comparison - "earnest arty" vs. "cynical arty."
I think you mean you'll never have a successful career in the art world, ANYONE can merely have a career.
Empanadas? Really? I think I might prefer falafel on grilled lavash, although typing that evoked a horrific image of Bill O'Reilly in the shower...
Try the green chile
what about
EVERYTHING MUST GO
by the way none of the other boo's (boo, boo7) are me
I kind of like 'Everything Must Go', but Jim Shaw already used it for his first big catalog. And I'm sick of doing something only to find out that Jim Shaw did it first!
oh, shit, i cant believe jim shaw already thought of that. i thought *I* just thought of it. goddamit it.
How about: "I refuse to take responsibility for my actions, because now I'm dead!"
Or: "Just another dick persecuting the nation's insurance companies."
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