"Amorphous orgy of yarn spinning"

I’m deconstructing the yale deconstructionist here. As they change the body of the text I’m changing their bodies in an amorphous orgy of yarn spinning.

"Appropriation"

The new york school is appropriating the avant guard baton ( the paint bush) from the paris school. After world war II new york became the capital of the art world..

"Backwater swamp"

In the 50’s during the cold war abstract expressionism was sent to Europe in a way to engage socialist realism.

"Bourgeois commando"

Marcel Duchamp was the bourgeois commando of the art world. He tore up the road that art had driven on.

"Countertransferance of the Oedipus Complex"

Freud’s statement about his nanny’s attempts to “seduce” him through the Attractions of Christianity were formulated within a month (oct. 1897) of the abandonment of the seduction theory. Freud converted this experience of his own fantasy about the body& soul of the Christian other, into the universal language of the Oedipus Complex.

"Detective Sartre"

Sartre’s existentialism can be seen as perpetual moral conflict. Similar to firing a gun at your image in a hall of mirrors.

"Fluke"

The irony of modern intellectual progress is that man’s genius discovered successive principles of determinism (Cartesian, Newtonian, Darwinian, Marxist, Freudian) that steadily attenuated belief in his own rational and volitional freedom, while eliminating his sense of being to anything more than a peripheral and transient accident of material evolution. The probability of human intelligence developing all the way from chemical ooze in the primeval ocean to its present stage solely through random mechanical processes compares to the probability of a tornado blowing through an auto wreckage yard and assembling by accident an airplane.

"Harried buyer"

Art became a commodity and the gallery a market, this made it possible for the harried buyer to gain in status by being seen as a “cultivated man” the change marks the passage into society of glamour & excess, where high culture takes its place in a consumer society.

"Homage to Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger"

This image is pretty straightforward, it’s an homage to Holzer and Kruger the two most successful and famous female artist in America. I add just a little humor and irony by placing them in a truck because their work typically hits you like a truck.

"Inadvance of title and signature"

This is a recreation of the moment when Marcel Duchamp purchased the “fountain”. The moment when twentieth century art changed forever.

"Loss of certainty"

Gödel’s therom shows that any nontrivial logic system (arithmetic) will have true statement that cannot be proven with a given set of axioms.

"One False Step and You Produced Merely Apocalyptic Wallpaper"

Harold Rosenberg (critic) wrote what is now a famous essay about abstract expressionist in the early 50’s that is still a staple in art history courses today. In the essay he responds to public criticism that school children make these abstract expressionist color field paintings. Rosenberg said that not anyone can make these paintings, “One False Step and You Produced Merely Apocalyptic Wallpaper.

"Posturing Postmodernism"

Postmodernism is an academic fashion show.

"When You Learn What You are Carrying on Your Back"

There are many aspects to this piece. The title is taken from Goya who would paint clergy on the backs of donkeys. Throughout western history the donkey has been used as a symbol of humanity. If you look closely you will see Pope John Paul sitting on the donkey, this composition is taken from Georges De La Tour “Magdalen with the Smoking Flame.” This painting is significant because it was the first time Mary Magdalen was pictured as a mortal human with a contemplative gaze; she was traditionally depicted as an aged woman or in her grotto. In the early 1990’s the Vatican, after spending millions of dollars each year on mathematicians and physicists trying to disprove Galileo, finally after 350 years recognizes Galileo was right, the earth did move around the sun. This headline was on the front page of the New York Times. So in this piece the Pope is depicted as a mortal human, just like us, on the back of society.