Posted By: Casey LaChapelle
In class on February 16th one of the concepts that was discussed was "stuckism." I didn't really understand it until I started looking at a bunch of different stuckist paintings. Stuckism was started by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish within the past ten years. Their whole motive was to have an answer to modernism in art. According to the stuckism website, the shark cut in half and put on display would not be considered art. They don't believe that anything dead should be considered art.
After reading a little bit about stuckism I find them to be a strange bunch, almost like a cult or weird political figure in the art world. I will admit that I do not know much about this type of art and would like to learn more but reading between the lines they seem like a very hostile bunch over what type of art is better or worse. With that being said I think that some of their stuff is interesting. I like the picture of the skull that has a caption of "life is great," it gives a lot of meaning to the saying "enjoy life one day at a time."
I would be interested to find more out about this type of art as it is still really confusing to me and their theory's are unorthodox.
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