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jflaxman — Pomo the Clown
Published: 2012-03-25 03:29:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 17299; Favourites: 200; Downloads: 171
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Pomo is a woeful entertainer who knows no tricks and isn't funny. His usual routines involve heaping ridicule on work that he could never replicate while claiming truth is an illusion. He is blind to the paintings of old masters and deaf to the music of great composers, but is firmly convinced of his genius. He can be articulate but usually opts for crudity; he looks moribund but refuses to die. He is the ugliest of turds shat out by the likes of Andy Warhol and treasured in place of progeny. He is modern art personified.Related content
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lol, like how you just bashed modern art SOO hard.
I agree, why are ppl valuing lines and squares yet pooping on the traditional?
btw, nice job.
This is CREEPY AS SH1t
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I see what you did there XD
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Post modern... post mortem.
www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
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That was brilliant! The scary part is how similar the "essays" sound to some serious statements I've read. When I lived in Fitzroy, Melbourne, some of the local galleries showcased great examples of unintentional self-parody!
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You should read some of Professor Gad Saad's reading of Postmodern gibberish. The challenge is to try to tell which 'Scholarly' dissertation is the fake and which were actually published for the university libraries. So far, there have been zero winners.
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I love how gritty and realistic this is. The inward curvature of his stomach fold, the wrinkles of his back, and the childlike look of his face. Such childlike touches actually add to the sentiment of your commentary.
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Hm... I think I recognize this guy. I have seen him around numerous times actually.
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I love this so much. SUCH an amazing visual metaphor. 
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*featured this great piece in my recent j-entry.
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thank you for this *sigh.. reminds me of my contemporary art course co-ordinator
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Damn, I pity you. I never studied art at uni, but I've heard plenty of horror stories from friends who have. When you're studying something like science or maths, a right answer is a right answer, no matter how much your superiors hate you; in more subjective fields (yes, I'm wary of that term too) like literature, music and visual art having the wrong supervisors can make things very difficult. At high school, at least, I was lucky enough to have teachers who appreciated my work as well as others that didn't, and this made a big difference.
Good to meet a fellow Aussie - I'm checking out your gallery now!
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Very nice work! (.... "Pomo" should run for the next US President! )
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Whew! For a minute there I thought you were describing me!
Just for the record, my manboobs are much perkier!
...a "plug" for our groups: Folks if you don't join groups like my anti-censorship group, #Mind-ur-Own-Business the kittens and puppy zombies will rule DA.
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I love what you've written underneath this picture - you've certainly made a hideous beast here both visually & in personality!!
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A great stand against an art style that needs to be stopped, JF.
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"Needs to be stopped" might be pushing it, as I'm not big on censorship, but on the whole I think postmodernism (aka Pomo) has done the art world a big disservice. The good news is a lot of people are well and truly over it, and the high and mighty have taken note. There's a coming exhibition titled "Postmodernism: A Retrospective" at the Victoria and Albert Museum and a push in many art schools for "Neo-Authenticity," which encourages a return to more traditional drawing, painting and sculpture. Ideally I'd like to use the style of painters such as Goya to depict contemporary problems or create my own mythologies, though I've still got a lot to learn!
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Postmodernism is on the ropes at this level of culture, but has joined forces with Neomarxism on the academic level to buy itself more destructive time. "Maps of Meaning" has become the weapon of choice for those of us committed to killing it, if slowly, by 10 thousand cuts; Not censorship, but utter obsolescence.
Its epitaph will read "I died of being ignored".
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You really know what you're talkin' about, man. I find it really hard to stay up to date on anything. I don't know too too much about art other then what I see in front of me. I'm glad that it's moving out of popularity though. That's good.
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Terrifyingly-looking, yet I can't stop looking at him...
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Agh!! My eyes!
I like the upturned nose, his face looks like the masks in the Twilight zone episode where a selfish family is transformed into personifications of avarice and self involvment by their old, rich patriarch.
Oh, and the description: Bravo.
Faving
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The Twilight Zone episode sounds interesting, I'll have to track it down.
Technically this pic is a departure from my usual work which is hand drawn, scanned and coloured digitally. This was "painted" entirely in Photoshop though I used a few photos for reference.
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Still horribly amazing. hopefully my color work will take a jump when i get my cintiq pad.
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This talk of a cintiq intrigues me. I've used a mid-range Wacom since 2005 and have thought about upgrading for ages, as I find digital painting can be frustrating (though I appreciate the savings on space, mess, time, and more).
I've thought of getting a cintiq, but the cheapest cost over $1000 here and I'd want to try one out before I commit those sorts of funds - and I haven't seen any display models in computer stores this side of the pond. One of my friends has one and swears by it, saying it's much more accurate and intuitive, though another digital artist I met says the system's overrated and doesn't like the glare from the screen. I'm definitely looking forward to hearing your take on the matter and seeing where it takes your work.
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well, my understanding is that if you use a wacom, then the only difference you'll notice is being able to see the screen under your pen.
I created one of the anime pics on my website with a wacom, and I must say that i'll trade a bit of glare to stop flying blind any day. the disconnect between screen and pad on wacom just messes with me too much, so I am stuck with hand penciling until I get the cintiq
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Draw humanity personified. That would be interesting.
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Wow. Was that a slap in the face to a lot of artists? Either way, I applaud you.
That thing reminds me of a broodmother from Dragon Age.
Pretty good job on it.
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