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>developed by Keith Boadwee, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts, and visiting faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute.

>Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts, and visiting faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute.

>Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts

>Professor of Fine Arts

We live in dark times.

So his art is shit.

>4chan

After reading the first three me thinks that if you like thinking about advancing the human consciousness to jupiter mind levels, the nature of our perception based in reality and just fuckin cool sci fi shit, Definately read on /li/tle one.

>>The OP

>(non toxic)
That's a shame

>>948374

>Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts, and visiting faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute.
>professor

His class must be shit

THIS IS THE TUB GIRL!

>>948374
Yes, we live in dark times all right... because there are people who cannot accept this work of art.

You ignorant narrow minded fools, just you wait, in the future EVERYONE WILL BE SQUIRTING PAINT OUT THEIR ASS!!!

>>948419
From professor's web site

>Lincon Log Bong
turns out his shit-art isn't the only thing he's done that happens to be shit

>M.F.A., U.C. Berkeley, 2000

why am i not surprised

I'm surprised that anyone on 4chan would be surprised by this in a slightest. This aesthetics existed here for years, it was only a matter of time before it was co-opted as art.

>more of professor's work

>>948374
LOL HE'S SO SHOCKING AND PROVOCATIVE

IT'S NOT GIMMICKY AT ALL!

I mean, what he did is put /b/ into a gallery and call it art!

>more of his stuff

>>948422
Tubgirl is fine art now.

you saw it here first.

4chan is now mainstream!

loloololololloolololololololololololololololololol
many lols were had

>>948453
jesus christ.

INTERNET IS FINE ART NOW

>>948457
GOATSE IS FINE ART NOW

I GUESS THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT 'ART ANALYSIS' LOL

Well, now literary works should begin employing 4chan's style. It's only logical.

>>948465
4chan is hipster central. there are hipsters everywhere. I'm a hipster, /lit/ is full of hipsters. You're a hipster too.

The days of the weeaboos have become engulfed into the colon of hipsterdom...

This just proves how retarded splatter painting has always been. Nothing new.

Strange that people in /lit/ are so quick to judge when it comes to conceptual pieces artistic expression, his work is gimmicky for sure but theres nothing wrong with inflamatory work imo, ts nothing special tho

>>948469
Yeah, you wish, you would-be quirky pile of shit.

<- /b/ is that way
FUCKING SAGE

Allright. Here's the proof he's simply ripping off the internet.

Burning my application to California College of the Arts as we speak.

>>948485
Do this and Professor Boadwee will stop.

The japanese have been doing this for thousands of years.

His work reminds me of the "strongly vaginal" work of Maud Lebowski.

Anyone could do this. This isn't art. This takes no effort at all. Some guy splashing paint and going "lol it is a masterpiece!" is just a lazy piece of shit who can't paint.

>>948487
Haha, but you are posting on 4chan as we speak!

Fuck, california is gay.

>>948493
>Anyone could do this. This isn't art. This takes no effort at all.

HA HA HA, OH WOW.

Seriously, your aestheticism is about 150 years off the mark.

>>948493
>Anyone could do this.

not a good argument

>Some guy splashing paint and going "lol it is a masterpiece!" is just a lazy piece of shit

this is a better argument

>>948493

I doubt that anyone has called anything he's ever made a "masterpiece."

>>948512
you'd be surprised by the cloud of sycophants that surround academic artists

>>948512
You get the picture, smartass.

someone give the link

In fairness to the professor a lot of this stuff was done in the early 90s, before the internet age. May be he is a precursor of 4chan, a visionary? This alone would be worthy of professorship.

>>948520
http://keithboadwee.com/home.html

Look, just because this idiot is doing stunt paintings doesn't suddenly invalidate contemporary art.

There are still painters with talent and skill out there, like John Currin.

The real problem is that art lacks an audience. Somebody like this is doing transgressive/queerpunk/inyerface/bodyart whatever. It's like "Yams Up My Granny's Ass" by Karen Finley.

But seriously, it's not like the 18th century lacked for mediocrity in art either---have you ever seen a painting by George Stubbs?

I don't think what this guy is doing is art. I don't find it interesting at all. But at the same time, to use him as an example of what "art" is about, or what's wrong with "art", is like trying to use Kirk/Spock slash fiction as a way of describing how "fiction" is pointless.

>>948526
Anything related to queers is awful.

Keith Boadwee art thread

gogogo

>>Anything related to queers is awful.

Yeah, like Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, WH Auden, Frederick the Great, Julius Caesar, and all the rest of them. Just fucking awful. You are SO right bro.

>>948526
the problem is, this is what is accepted as "fine art" now.

it's not that this particular artist is crap, it's that his sort of bullshit is acclaimed

>>948549

>Yeah, like .....
These men have been claimed by the Queers.
That doesn't make them so.

>>948556
>claimed by the queers.

I can never say this enough,


WILL ALL THE RELIGIOUS NUTS ON THIS PLANET PLEASE STOP PERSECUTING THE REST OF US?

posted by boadwee blog at 10:42 PM


Keith confirmed for atheist bro

>>it's not that this particular artist is crap, it's that his sort of bullshit is acclaimed

His bullshit isn't "acclaimed". If you read his resume---conveniently posted on his website---and you know anything about the art world, you'd realize he's basically a nonentity.

If you look at a decent book on contemporary art---like Matthew Collings' "It Hurts" or reviews by Robert Hughes---it's not like anyone in the actual art world pays attention to this guy.

If you're upset that he gets *employed* by doing shit like this, at art schools, well so what. People get employed by hedge funds and Bernie Madoff and Enron. And what they do has a lot worse consequences than some idiot squirting paint out of his rectum.

Plus nobody ever said that the people who taught at art schools are any good. It's kind of a given that they aren't. Read "Art School Confidential" by Dan Clowes.

>>948571
>claimed by the queers.

>>948549

If scholars speculate that a dude might be gay, then he is DEFINITELY gay.

It's been proven that scholarly types have the best gaydar.

>>These men have been claimed by the Queers. That doesn't make them so.

I don't think it's any kind of sinister "gay agenda" on the part of the queers that makes (say) WH Auden a homosexual. I think it has more to do with the fact that WH Auden liked sucking cocks.

But speaking as one of the Queers, I'm just letting you know.....we'll be claiming you next. If I were you, I'd duct-tape your anus shut and hide in a cave for 20 years. Otherwise, we will find you and convert you.

>>948551

So is there an objective measure of what makes "fine" art? Please share it with us.

>>948556
>oscar wilde
>claimed by the queers

implying he wasn't the queerest queer in history, followed by freddie mercury

>>948580
Exactly. Also, the guy is an adjunct, he's probably teaching some basics.

>>948590
It's too late. I backtraced his post. He dun goofed.

>>Exactly. Also, the guy is an adjunct, he's probably teaching some basics.

Yes. You might also notice from his resume he was born in rural Mississippi. We in the Queer Conspiracy have a term for people like that. We call them "farm fags". You know, homosexuals from the Bible belt who still can't stop running around reminding people that they're here and they're queer and blah blah blah. In other words, it's pretty obvious what he's doing and it's pretty obvious that nobody (not even we in the Queer Conspiracy) give a shit.

>>948480
wow, where can I get one of those?
(I mean the monkey, not the......fuck, you know what i mean)

Fucking faggots destroying human culture.

>>948646

>>948616

In the unlikely event that I succeed as a journalist, essayist, writer or what-have-you, I plan to behave in such a way that should my works attract any attention after my death I may easily be claimed in future criticism by the queer conspiracy. Any tips?

>>948677
Fuck people of the same gender as you?

>>948677
Have a homosexual relationship early in your life, ruin it in some way, and spend the rest of your life either railing against homosexuals who have healthy ones or writing thinly veiled homosexual erotica ostensibly involving heterosexual platonic friends.

http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/2001/june/boadwee/boadwee.html

http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2008/05/kieth_boadwee_a.html
>The funniest is the Speers photo which shows her naked, pregnant and surrounded by the truncated words, "best new idea inside." ... whatever critique one might have of Boadwee's work, he's definitely not making the world stupider. Instead, here is a kind of kinesthetic visual jungle gym where body and mind have to negotiate; sex (with man or woman), companionship (dog), drugs (blue boy poppers) and needs like food (bacon). To cap it all off a corresponding hole is cut in a gallery wall, implicating the entire space. It's a kind of cosmopolitan visual matrix where the boulder completes the Sisyfusian allusion...
>Which leads us to the best piece in the show Untitled (piss in mouth), which is quite simply Boadwee on his back, aiming a stream of urine into his own mouth. As a stunt it is full of self effacing narcissism... conflating Eros, humiliation, self sufficient grandiosity and an allusion to the spectacle that is the artist's way. It's about as simple and as complicated as a photograph can be. The work also parallels baroque era grotesques and the golden rain of the Danae myth. It's also a humanistic tour de force... an aesthetic circuit beginning and ending with the body, something most Americans only think about in dieting terms. Like Mapplethorpe, its a beautiful image that might be initially slightly shocking but retains attention because it is formally beautiful.

>>948677
Be known as a well dressed man who's open minded about sexuality, be a good cook, put some underlying homo erotic things in your novels like always explaining how handsome the male protagonist is.

personally I'm a 100% straight man, I made out with a friend when drunk during a truth or dare game and once I went to a gaybar with friends, so do something like that if you get the chance then mention it in your autobiography and if anyone ever questions your sexuality refuse to discuss it

>>In the unlikely event that I succeed as a journalist, essayist, writer or what-have-you, I plan to behave in such a way that should my works attract any attention after my death I may easily be claimed in future criticism by the queer conspiracy. Any tips?

By the time you're dead, Western Culture will be post-gay anyway. Don't worry about it.

In other words, hoping to be claimed posthumously by the queer conspiracy in 50 years' time---or whenever you plan to die, I'm making a rough guess here based on the fact that you haven't started your career yet---is like hoping to be claimed posthumously as a sincere worshipper of Zeus. Some kinds of cultural identity (religious, sexual, what have you) just go from being dangerous and transgressive to being absolutely irrelevant within a short period of time. Look at the history of Christianity between Nero and Julian the Apostate. Nero was feeding Christians to the lions. Julian could barely summon enthusiasm for the old gods on which Nero's Rome depended.

Similarly, what people do with their genitals is going to go from dangerous/scary/transgressive to being utterly irrelevant.

I mean, at this point, you already have FTM transsexuals who claim to be gay men. Whereas I always thought that one thing gay men usually had in common with each other was a penis. The real fact is that sexuality was always incredibly fluid and indeterminate, and gay and straight and all the rest of those definitions are ultimately going to turn out to be irrelevant.

I mean seriously, who cares?

>>948699
Holy shit, are you me? Am I being spied or something?
That's exactly what it happened to me and what I did... What the hell.

>>948549
Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, WH Auden, Frederick the Great, yes. Shakespeare, speculation, whatever. Caesar, no, that's retarded. Proust and Wittgenstein, yes and most probably.
Donatello, Michelangelo and maybe Leonardo da Vinci. Pope Sixtus IV (Sistine chapel).

>>948826

>>Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, WH Auden, Frederick the Great, yes.

Glad you agree.

>>Shakespeare, speculation, whatever.

Okay. Offer a speculation on Shakespeare's first 126 sonnets which doesn't involve them being homoerotic addresses to a young man.

>>Caesar, no, that's retarded.

Then why did the legions sing:

Gallias Caesar subegit Nicomedes Caesarem:
Ecce Caesar nunc triumphat qui subegit Gallias
Nicomedes non triumphat qui subegit Caesarem.

You're also disregarding the famous quip of Curio that he was wife to every husband and husband to every wife in Rome, and Catullus's two epigrams on Caesar's relationship with Mamurra.

>>Proust and Wittgenstein, yes and most probably.

Most probably? Puh-leeze. The dons at Cambridge used to warn attractive undergrads not to get to close to Wittgenstein. I think it's "of course" and "of course".

>>Donatello, Michelangelo and maybe Leonardo da Vinci.

Don't forget Caravaggio.

>>948381
Since nobody else bothered to go back and give you respect for this, well played, anon. I got a chuckle out of it.

>>948372
Why is the art world working overtime to prove all those taxi drivers I thought were just being ignorant right?

Anybody really can do this shit these days...

>>948894
>>bunch of latin not even translated
Someone was a literature major.

>>bunch of latin not even translated
>>Someone was a literature major.

Someone doesn't know how to cut and paste into Google.

In any case, that is what is known as "the decent obscurity of a learned tongue", which prevents shocking sexual gossip from getting into the hands of people who (a) don't know Latin, and (b) don't know how to cut and paste something into Google.

I mean, seriously, if I had translated it, would you really give a shit about Julius Caesar's rumored relationship with Nicomedes IV of Bithynia?

Footnote:

"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."

Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

>>948929
At least you wouldn't give off the impression of trying to unnecessarily put yourself above me.

>>948936

Gibbon is god.

>>948894

retardfag history question:

How did Nicomedes subegit Caesarem?

Compared to Yves Klein, who would get hot models to come and get covered in paint and roll on canvases for his paintings, this seems really, REALLY gay.

>>948963

nevermind I got it now.

Heh. Caesar took it in the pooper.

>>retardfag history question:
>>How did Nicomedes subegit Caesarem?

Edward Gibbon replies: paedicatio

For those who don't speak Latin: by fucking him up the ass.

That's the joke in what Caesar's legions were singing. The truce with Nicomedes was cemented, supposedly, by Caesar agreeing to have sex with him.

>>948894
>The dons at Cambridge used to warn attractive undergrads not to get too close to Wittgenstein.
Sauce on this. I wish someone'd warn distractions away from me. Stupid friendly straightfags... Well, it happened once.
Saying you're bent on 4chan is really cringeworthy; 4chan resembles my outlook on and model of the world, strongly malebiased i guess. I imagine this makes me palatable IRL.

brb posting this on /d/

>>949186

I see you posted it on /r9k/ too.

Now watch how those threads progress and see how /lit/ is the greatest board on 4chan.

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