The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
- Oscar Wilde
OK, so I’ve been trolling about for a job for some time now. I’ve looked down a number of (very dry) holes, but I never would have considered the wonderfully creative world of art if not for Millie Brown, who just might become my new muse. You see, anyone can paint, but it takes a genius like Jackson Pollock to take painting in a new direction, to places where artists have yet to go. And so it is with Brown, who’s defintely taking art to places it…well, probably had no intention of going.
Brown is a performance artist. She drinks colored milk, vomits, and then sells whatever she happens to vomit on. She started by ralphing on shirts that she was wearing and then selling the shirts (There’s a market for that??). Before long, she graduated to white canvasses (no doubt following in Pollock’s footsteps). One of her canvases, Nexus Vomitus, is selling for $2400.
Perhaps she’s been inspired by Keith Boadwee, whose unique method involves, um…squirting paint out of his anus (and, yes, the link is very definitely NSFW and pretty disgusting). Evidently, using paint and brushes is so over….
Somewhere warm and breezy, Robert Mapplethorpe is snickering into his Corona. Art really IS in the eye of the beholder…but who ever thought art would be a biohazard?
