Troy Chambers

Who I'd like to meet:

"There is a modicum of technique abroad in the world of painters- but absolutely NO content. The world is completely devoid of painters of true vision. There is not a single critic worth reading, or a single artist whose paintings have a relevance to the time in which we live. Yet everywhere there is the clamour of of the articulate swine, raising its myopic hog voice in praise of the mediocre, sucking everybody into their belief in the fifth rate. At random open any art magazine in the world: you will see high-tech repros of paintings by charlatans, and critiques by fools. One fool praises a charlatan. Another fool joins the first fool, and they form a movement. The charlatan, by his high success, encourages other charlatans. Twelve fools approve and put their hands in their pockets. Soon, fools are prospering. Everyday, in art galleries and museums throughout the world, fool is attempting to sell a charlatan to another fool. Art-commerce and critical hubris conjoin. In the monetary boudoir the bonding vocabulary common to both fool and charlatan culminates on a genuinely meaningful level."

This of course also applies to modern music and writing. It is all so dreadfully mediocre, and the herd takes it like bittersweet candy. It makes me ill.

If you want to know more about David Britton's AMAZING book series dealing with Lord Horror, please see Supervert's outstanding essay on them- "Horror Panegyric" (including excerpts from all three books) here at his site: http://supervert.com/

The people and things I support: