More Scam Stuff, Saatchi Online, Stuckism and the Turner Prize
I couldn't figure out how the scam artists would make money from artists but then a search on the web revealed that 1.) this has been going on at least since 2006 and 2.) they use the very similar formulaic letter and 3.) the check they send is an "overpayment" and since it takes a while for the cashier's check to clear, i guess the scam scums figure the unsuspecting artists cashes the check and forwards the balance back to them.
The check looks pretty good except that it lacks the watermark that it says it is suppose to have.
But, this is the risk when one takes when we broadcast our portfolios on the Internet. Speaking of which, another site where you can download your images and be associated with a big name, the Saatchi Gallery in London, Saatchi Online. You can register your work, up to 20 pieces for free, easy to do and looks good. My stuff is up.
Also came across an interesting website Stuckism International is a self proclaimed "International art movement for contemporaray figurative painting with ideas. Anti the pretensions of conceptual art. Anti-anti-art. The first Remodernist art group. Daubers (daubing is the new painting). Interesting website if you have the time to read it - it is very wordy. Their manifesto... and their funny take on the Turner Prize
THE TURNER PRIZE
The Stuckists (est. 1999)
anti-anti-art
The first Remodernist art group
1. Everyone talks about The Turner Prize but very few people believe in its worth. It has become an ongoing national joke, because of its pathetic and pretentious exhibits.
2. The Turner Prize is not, despite what Sir Nicholas Serota believes, the popularising of art but its dumbing down into a circus of curiousities.
3. The Turner Prize effectively turns The Tate Gallery into a state-funded advertising agency for Charles Saatchi, the Lisson Gallery and the White Cube Gallery.
4. Turner did not rebuild launderettes. He did not take photographs. He did not make videos, nor, to our knowledge, did he pickle sheep or construct concrete casts of negative space.
5. It should be pointed out that what Turner actually did was to paint pictures.
6. To call The Turner Prize The Turner Prize is like calling bubble-gum caviar.
7. The only artist who wouldn't be in danger of winning The Turner Prize is Turner.
8. To award The Turner Prize to an inferior re-hash of a Buster Keaton film is like awarding an Oscar to the the workman who paint the Forth Bridge.
9. If the Trustees of The Tate Gallery have any respect for the values to which Turner devoted his life, The Turner Prize must be awarded to an artist who continues the tradition of communicating the power of life through painting.
10. Alternatively, we propose that The Turner Prize should be re-named The Duchamp Award for the destruction of artistic integrity.
Billy Childish
Charles Thomson
The check looks pretty good except that it lacks the watermark that it says it is suppose to have.
But, this is the risk when one takes when we broadcast our portfolios on the Internet. Speaking of which, another site where you can download your images and be associated with a big name, the Saatchi Gallery in London, Saatchi Online. You can register your work, up to 20 pieces for free, easy to do and looks good. My stuff is up.
Also came across an interesting website Stuckism International is a self proclaimed "International art movement for contemporaray figurative painting with ideas. Anti the pretensions of conceptual art. Anti-anti-art. The first Remodernist art group. Daubers (daubing is the new painting). Interesting website if you have the time to read it - it is very wordy. Their manifesto... and their funny take on the Turner Prize
THE TURNER PRIZE
The Stuckists (est. 1999)
anti-anti-art
The first Remodernist art group
1. Everyone talks about The Turner Prize but very few people believe in its worth. It has become an ongoing national joke, because of its pathetic and pretentious exhibits.
2. The Turner Prize is not, despite what Sir Nicholas Serota believes, the popularising of art but its dumbing down into a circus of curiousities.
3. The Turner Prize effectively turns The Tate Gallery into a state-funded advertising agency for Charles Saatchi, the Lisson Gallery and the White Cube Gallery.
4. Turner did not rebuild launderettes. He did not take photographs. He did not make videos, nor, to our knowledge, did he pickle sheep or construct concrete casts of negative space.
5. It should be pointed out that what Turner actually did was to paint pictures.
6. To call The Turner Prize The Turner Prize is like calling bubble-gum caviar.
7. The only artist who wouldn't be in danger of winning The Turner Prize is Turner.
8. To award The Turner Prize to an inferior re-hash of a Buster Keaton film is like awarding an Oscar to the the workman who paint the Forth Bridge.
9. If the Trustees of The Tate Gallery have any respect for the values to which Turner devoted his life, The Turner Prize must be awarded to an artist who continues the tradition of communicating the power of life through painting.
10. Alternatively, we propose that The Turner Prize should be re-named The Duchamp Award for the destruction of artistic integrity.
Billy Childish
Charles Thomson
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