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Art movements



Okay, here ya go, Brian.  There was an article in our Sunday arts section 
about the Stuckist movement in the UK, launched in 1999, which considers 
itself a Re-modernist movement and reaction against commercialism.  
Apparently the name came from an argument between co-founder Billy Childish 
and his girlfriend, Tracey Emin.  According to the article, it's still a 
little early to tell if it's a new aesthetic movement or just a feud.  The 
other co-founder of the movement is Charles Thomson.

Excerpts follow:

"Tracey thinks that artists have two choices--to be pathetic artists no one 
will ever know or to go wholeheartedly with consumerism," Childish said at 
the gallery.  "Because of my refusal to endorse her commercial art, she said 
I was 'stuck.'"

Amid the catcalling and sarcasm, the Stuckists have a simple manifesto -- 
art has to come from the soul, it has to have a message...

"It's a sea change, a paradigm shift," Thomson said, "We're initiating a new 
cultural period, which we've called re-modernism, and the aim of 
re-modernism is to restore spiritual values to art, culture and society."

Brian Sewell, caustic art critic for London's The Evening Standard, agrees 
with the Stuckist contempt for the "Brit Pack" -- including Emin and Damien 
Hirst, famed for floating dead animals in formaldehyde tanks.

But Sewell thinks Stuckists are appalling, too.  "Stuckism is fundamentally 
silly," Sewell said in an interview.  "No Stuckist is worth a second glance 
or even a first.  I despise the whole business of Tracey Emin and her peers. 
  There should be some real opposition to them, but the Stuckists cannot 
provide it."


Interesting effort anyhow, right?

keets
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