| Not really, but I have been avoiding them on account of their high glycemic properties. What I loathe is politics. I have a very basic precept in regards to politics: I believe anytime more than one person join together towards a goal, the original goal is in grave danger of corruption. Some might say this is representational of a dim view of human nature. While I recognize there are exceptions to every rule, all I know of it is what I've seen of it, and you've seen the same. Politics- all that posturing, and attempts to sway, I find it distasteful. If I were going to try to sway someone, I'd have to assume first that they were uninformed, and I think that's disrespectful. I have similar feelings about political paintings, although I have been moved by some. Critics of mine have informed me that representative artwork lies somewhere between masturbation, and showboating, and if they were going to do fine artwork, they'd only do provocative pieces that sent a message. That's a big, "if". I don't pay much mind to that kind of rhetoric. All that being said, sometimes we find ourselves in life considering doing the last thing we'd care to, things we find distasteful, because situations are forced on us that we never wanted. I suspect that has been the catalyst for many political paintings. In many cases, an artist's work is their voice. Call me a hypocrite if you like, owing to relatively recent events, I've put up my lovely carousel painting I was working on, in lieu of a couple, "political" paintings of the less offensive variety-rebuttal. |
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