Believe it or not, but I found this by accident when I selected YouTube instead of Yahoo from my bookmarks during my daily morning routine of checking e-mails.
The thing about Dilbert that I like is that the humor can take the most high brow of subjects and completely devolve it to a single punchline anyone can get, but most can relate to if they are a member of the pencil pushing work force. He never tackled the subject of art in the Sunday Comics, and I apparently missed this episode when it aired on Comedy Central, but I thank the person that was able to condense the episode to the jokes that make a social commentary about contemporary art.
Kind of wish I found this when I was in Contemporary Art History, though...
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Jon,
If you haven't seen it, you will want to see this Wall Street Journal article by Scott Adams:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB119388143439778613-lMyQjAxMDE3OTAzMTgwODExWj.html
It begins:
Giving Stuff Away on the Internet
By SCOTT ADAMS
November 1, 2007; Page A19
I spend about a third of my workday blogging. Thanks to the miracle of online advertising, that increases my income by 1%. I balance that by hoping no one asks me why I do it.
As with most of my life decisions, my impulse to blog was a puzzling little soup of miscellaneous causes that bubbled and simmered until one day I noticed I was doing something. I figured I needed a rationalization in case anyone asked. My rationalization for blogging was especially hard to concoct. I was giving away my product for free and hoping something good came of it. . . . .
Robert
This cartoon clip is reductive and ignorant. It distills all the heart out of art and simply pokes fun at the business of trends, which can be applied to any market - art or otherwise. Please note, I said the BUSINESS.
I am both amused and angered at the fact that nearly every television series has the token "art world" episode, where one of the characters is "discovered" to be an instant art celebrity, raised to the pinacles of the art world. This is how the world perceives us. Great. It's a perception that's built on a few overblown anomoles. And thus the misperception is perpetuated and the gap between art and the general public gets wider and wider and wider.
Sorry about all my incorrect spellings. I'm too frustrated to spell check right now. Dilbert just makes me so fucking angry.
Jon,
After Jason's comment I decided to do a little Googling so I put in:
"contemporary art" "social commentary" "instant success"
I found two items, both on very long entries, that seemed to relate. I excerpted two small bits from each.
Rule 1 below seemed especially appropriate considering some of your previous blog entries and our comments.
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http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Richard%20Arndt/Star-Reach.htm
The Star-Reach Bibliography
A 2006 Interview with Trina Robbins!
Richard J. Arndt: Whose work among modern woman cartoonists do you find particularly interesting?
Trina Robbins: There are more women drawing comics today than ever before and so many of them are really, really good! I just finished reading Jessica Abel’s new graphic novel, La Perdida, because I’m reviewing it for Art Forum, and I think it’s the best work she ever did. I was also mightily impressed by Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. But, thankfully, I’m a historian rather than a critic of contemporary art, so I’d rather stay out of who’s the best today, and not get lots of women cartoonists taking out contracts on me!
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http://www.earlbronsteen.com/book.pdf
RULES FOR SUCCESS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ART WORLD
My meteoric rise to success in the art world has left many of my struggling artist friends shaking their heads (and fists). They ask me over and over, "Earl, how could you, an untrained elderly, Jewish, straight person have become an overnight success in the fiercely competitive and severely overcrowded contemporary art world?"
The answer is quite simple. Artists are made not born. The art world is a very competitive business and I set out to "shop the competition." I visited many, many museums and galleries so I could see what was hot and what was not. I took what is hot and copied and adapted it. And, the rest is history.
I decided to write this book to help to the legions of struggling artists and to make a few bucks for myself. So all you have to do is follow a few simple Rules and you can be as successful as I am. How does that sound to you? I thought so.
This book is written in a sort of "Paint by Numbers" style. And, as an added feature, I have numbered all the Rules in chronological order to make it even easier to follow. This book is lush with color photographs of my awardwinning work and of other artists' work that I have copied.
I am so sure that you, the reader, will find almost instant success in the art world that I am offering a money-back guarantee. However, if you skip any page in this book I cannot be held responsible for the consequences.
Rule # 1 -- MORE IS BETTER.
What first struck me in my visits to contemporary art museums and galleries was that the exhibition of hundreds, or better yet, thousands of some objects transforms the mass into a work of art.
The epitome of the More is Better School is the permanent exhibition by a prestigious museum of 140 tons of just plain dirt covering 3,600 square feet of indoor floor space in New York City. You must have seen other examples, not as stupendous, but what can you say about 35,000 clay figures in one space, 10,000 pennies (coated with honey) piles of candy, fortune cookies (often in one corner), tons of compacted cars, bales of cotton. The more the merrier.
I asked myself "Earl, why is this art?" The answer, it seemed to me, is that it's art because the artist, curator and art critic can write endless paragraphs in Artspeak explaining the true meaning of all that dirt. The complex explanation makes it art.
[photograph in the original] The author sits proudly astride bales of cardboard that are fresh from the compactor. One bale would be trash; 50 bales turn it into art. Some people think this is my best piece, and who am I to argue with my fans.
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This humorous guide goes on to Rule 120 and an index without page numbers. Author Earl Bronsteen recommends that you fill the page numbers in for future reference.
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Robert
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