Whatever happened to "artists"? Are they obsolete?

tuvor

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Mon Jun-12-06 09:22 PM
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Whatever happened to "artists"? Are they obsolete?

I'm talking about the painting kind.

(Puts on old man wig)

When I was a boy, we had Picasso and Dali and Warhol and Haring and Basquiat and...

Okay, I haven't really thought this out, but why don't we hear anymore about contemporary visual artists who are making waves in the big cities and why aren't they grabbing all the Arts section headlines?

Did they die out after the 80s? No one seems to care about static two-dimensional art anymore.

Don't mind me. Just a semicoherent quasi-rant from someone who's never been to NYC or any other major art centre.

Still...

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YellowRubberDuckie

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Mon Jun-12-06 09:27 PM
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1. Pretty much.

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asthmaticeog

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Mon Jun-12-06 09:38 PM
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2. They're still around.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/dana_schutz.htm

Dana Schutz is a young painter who's becoming very, very famous, just to name one. It's North America, it's not like Europe where people pay this stuff much attention, outside of NYC, anyway. In my city's paper, the "Arts" section focuses mostly on TV, bestselling novels and Hollywood movies.

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tuvor

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Mon Jun-12-06 09:48 PM
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3. Thanks for the link.

Nice to see some imagination at play.

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txwhitedove

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Mon Jun-12-06 09:50 PM
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4. Houston and Houston Chronicle very art aware....

Houston Chronicle 'Arts' website: http://www.chron.com/entertainment/arts/

Check out: www.theorangeshow.com

Just one photo from this year's Art Car Parade, the "Electric Muffins":

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