Re: Barn Find Wild '70s Custom Road Runner for $3,000!
You and your compelling-ness.
You mention "high art". I agree, this is not "high art" but let's not paint with such braod strokes (Sorry, I had to). Within the realm of painting cars, ESPECIALLY within the time period when it was produced, this was most certainly high art. It's art in the way that the paintings on the walls of the caves in Lascaux are art.
Is it a cultural landmark, heck no, I'm with you there, but why do we have to look "beyond the craftsmanship" at all? Taking that tack, I can look "beyond the craftsmanship" of any art I do not like to downgrade it. Stuff like Jackson Pollock's paintings, Dali's sketch work or other abstract artists (kinda like the wacko that painted this plymouth) can be rendered "subcultural" in an instant.
Even the "subcultural" stuff has had its day in the limelight. Johnson, Roth, Von Dutch, and others have been recognized as bona fide artists, right?
Brian
Originally posted by Speedzzter.blogspot
You mention "high art". I agree, this is not "high art" but let's not paint with such braod strokes (Sorry, I had to). Within the realm of painting cars, ESPECIALLY within the time period when it was produced, this was most certainly high art. It's art in the way that the paintings on the walls of the caves in Lascaux are art.
Is it a cultural landmark, heck no, I'm with you there, but why do we have to look "beyond the craftsmanship" at all? Taking that tack, I can look "beyond the craftsmanship" of any art I do not like to downgrade it. Stuff like Jackson Pollock's paintings, Dali's sketch work or other abstract artists (kinda like the wacko that painted this plymouth) can be rendered "subcultural" in an instant.
Even the "subcultural" stuff has had its day in the limelight. Johnson, Roth, Von Dutch, and others have been recognized as bona fide artists, right?
Brian
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