The influence of “The Painted Word” is obvious, and welcome.
As Tom Wolfe said about America’s temporary dalliance with Abstract Expression: it didn’t sell well. That tells you much about American folk art, and the American ruling class.
American art has NEVER existed - with the exception of Gothic art - for the reason the Germanic and Celtic traditions were replaced with Renaissance architecture: ironically when the Etruscans adopted Greek Dark Age architecture they abandoned their original cyclopean architecture which originated with the pre-Anatolian peoples. The article promotes a fictional American art which never existed (with the exception of such things like "American Gothic) the article saying this art contrasted with the artistic counterculture of Europe (Impressionism and Gothicism were HATED in Europe due to being seen as ugly: Vincent van Gogh was laughed at and "Gothic" was an insult used by Italians, Austrians, and Frenchmen to refer to the Germanic reaction to Romanesque architecture, the reaction being in Germanic Europe such as the former Lotharingia).
REAL American art would be a revival of artforms like quilts and such, or would resemble the Newport Tower (which seems to have been built by the Dutch in C.E. 1628 and hearkens about to architecture in C.E. 1400) or America's Stonehenge (which was built in 3000 BCE but resembles an 18th century Irish construction, 18th century Irish farming constructions having cultural continuity dating back to Hallstatt before 800 BCE). The article is an unwitting stooge of Greek cultural imperialism whilst blasting European immigrants who aren't Anglo.
Excellent article. If you broaden your definition of art, isn't there actually a surfeit of commercial art that is both recognizably American and widely enjoyed? Isn't pop culture a field uniquely dominated by American cultural production? Fine art is still the province of Europe, but it's Americans that produce what is on everyone's mind. Perhaps this is why fine art has never gotten much traction in the USA?
The influence of “The Painted Word” is obvious, and welcome.
As Tom Wolfe said about America’s temporary dalliance with Abstract Expression: it didn’t sell well. That tells you much about American folk art, and the American ruling class.
American art has NEVER existed - with the exception of Gothic art - for the reason the Germanic and Celtic traditions were replaced with Renaissance architecture: ironically when the Etruscans adopted Greek Dark Age architecture they abandoned their original cyclopean architecture which originated with the pre-Anatolian peoples. The article promotes a fictional American art which never existed (with the exception of such things like "American Gothic) the article saying this art contrasted with the artistic counterculture of Europe (Impressionism and Gothicism were HATED in Europe due to being seen as ugly: Vincent van Gogh was laughed at and "Gothic" was an insult used by Italians, Austrians, and Frenchmen to refer to the Germanic reaction to Romanesque architecture, the reaction being in Germanic Europe such as the former Lotharingia).
REAL American art would be a revival of artforms like quilts and such, or would resemble the Newport Tower (which seems to have been built by the Dutch in C.E. 1628 and hearkens about to architecture in C.E. 1400) or America's Stonehenge (which was built in 3000 BCE but resembles an 18th century Irish construction, 18th century Irish farming constructions having cultural continuity dating back to Hallstatt before 800 BCE). The article is an unwitting stooge of Greek cultural imperialism whilst blasting European immigrants who aren't Anglo.
Shame. I was open to calm critique
I was merely annoyed at the bias.
Noted and taken
Excellent article. If you broaden your definition of art, isn't there actually a surfeit of commercial art that is both recognizably American and widely enjoyed? Isn't pop culture a field uniquely dominated by American cultural production? Fine art is still the province of Europe, but it's Americans that produce what is on everyone's mind. Perhaps this is why fine art has never gotten much traction in the USA?