Results from my modern art contest


A little while ago I challenged you guys to write the best summary you could of the painting I did at age 2 that would make it worthy of an art museum.Here are my favorites!

Most creative interpretation: Chabneruk

“Genius rarely shows itself in a pure, elementary form. But the early work of Jennifer McCreight demonstrate the instinctive, pure emotion of an artist yet unaffected by trivialities like form or training. Her famous ‘watercolor hanging in my bathroom that I did at age 3’ – the title underlining the naive importance of the work – has fascinated generations of young atheists-to-be, symbolizing the struggle to overcome ancient systems of belief. The central piece, washy in its definition, is mostly though to represent the respective deity. The red center symbolizes the conflicts every religion brings with itself, gradually weakening towards the green rim – a sign of the positive possibilities religion might bring. This contrast of a strong, violent center towards the soothing outher ring has also been a topic in Dan Brown’s new bestseller “Watercolour”, where protagonist Robert Langdon deciphers McCreights secret code. The points that move towards the edge of the painting represent the people that left their religion and their way to freedom – leaving the frame of the painting. McCreights work is currently exhibited in the Center of Modern Atheistic Art in New Town.”

Most lol-worthy: Annie

A consideration of Jen McCreight’s watercolor, “I named my cervix Rob Bior.” McCreight’s early work denounces toddler conventionality by breaking the color spectrum at the third level. The metamorphic deprecation of “Roy G. Biv” to “Rob Bior” boldly illustrates this artist’s youthful abandonment of the unwritten “Preschool Principle”. McCreight’s obsession with her own cervix haunted her work well into her preteens. Other examples of this fixation include “My cervix is like a camera lens”, a bold multi media exhibit, and “My cervix hates you!!!!”, which is an exemplary example of the modern use of charcoal on dry dog food. The original of this replica is housed in the lavatory of the McCreight family estate.

Best inspiration for a new piece of art: Matt

Here we have a watercolor ripe with political satire from Jennifer McCreight in her typical avant garde Post-Toddlerist style. As one can plainly see, the picture conveys the anger the artist feels from her frustrations with potty training and being denied by her mother the fundamental right to eat dirt. Bold in her defiance of typical artistic norms, she uses amorphous concave shapes as a method to display her imagery breaking with strict adherence to geometric and mathematical principles popularized by M.C. Escher. One may be familiar with Jennifer’s more recent artwork such as her recreation of Georges Seurat’s, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte” by means of vajazzling Martha Stewart.

And the winner is… Stephen!

The “painting” “entitled” “the watercolor hanging in my bathroom that I did at age 3” stands in purported postironic metacontext as a subliminal representation of Neo-Foucauldian sexuality contrasted with the hegemony of the religiopatriarchal discourses that typify the extradominant, self-perpetuatory narrative of spiritual immortality. Introspective re(cap)itualtion of the painting’s historiography demands that we make a choice: either accept the privilege of a Pre-Raphaelite objectification of the biological as “G/god-deposed” interrelative to the broader Leftist mythological discourse, or reject hypertrivial assertions of hierarchical dominance /en rejoivivant/, which typifies and creates a counterpublic expression of modern /Dasein/, as counterrevealed in analysis by Heidegger. Of course we must not and cannot unprejudicially disregard the Derridian supplementarity called by the work within it’s own subtextual, self-referentiality. The drawing (re)presents the “cell” as deemed by imperialist Western “biological” standards and recuses itself of those standards by both reifying itself as its own creation, but by suggesting its status as part of a larger social organism, recreating and allegorizing the struggle of the global proletariat against multicultural capitalism, contra Lacan Overall the work succeeds in drawing together and unifying diverse /narratif(ve)s dehors l’hors-texte/ and challenges our assumptions about the state of our privileged day-to-day lives.

Congratulations, Stephen! You’ve won a doodle from me. Comment here with your request.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

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Comments

  1. Chabneruk says

    Heyyy you liked it ;) let me send you the Dan Brown novel as a thank-you-gift…(…once it is written O:-) )(…is a O:-)-smiley inappropriate here? )

  2. says

    Hooray! Glad you liked, Jen.Of course, it was written with the utmost respect for my area of study. I think. Anyways, the doodle. Hm. Could you do Steampunk Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, and an anthropomorphic box of Brillo pads all holding hands and skipping in a meadow? If not, just Steampunk Carl Sagan works.

  3. f'a says

    (a vaguely familiar trio of groupies approaches…)“… Stephen! Hi, hi! Listen, great work! Congratulations!”“… yeah, right, right … fantastic …”“… Stephen, yeah, that was great! … (go on…)”… hi, Stephen … yes, i’m really glad you won. i really liked your writing … “(She doesn’t want to say it… go on!)” (ouch!)“Fine, I’ll tell him…”no!i’ll… um… well,… i’m thinking of having a sort of salon … no, no, just some overblown philosophical ramblings on the nature of art and it’s relationship with humanity … yeah, right, … so, … good … congratula–(tions…)(buffeted aside, the moment departs…)“Yeah, well, it’s a Closed Circuit, darling, you have to be nice … or acting … every time.”i know … i just get so worked up … and i have such a hard time knowing what people really mean …“I told you – just Talk Normal.”i try, but that keeps shifiting … anyway, i’m really sorry about that … and jimm’–“(ssh! … look, here’s–) Hi! Darling! How’s your work?…”

  4. f'a says

    NOTE TO SELF… i’m not sure … shi[fit]ing? … it ‘is’ a madness, like ‘the fits,’ but i wish i’d caught this typo … proofing with this awkward eyesight …EDIT WHERE EDIT IS DUEreplace ‘shifiting’ with ‘shifting’ throughout

  5. f'a says

    … so, anyway, Jen, i’m hoping you’ll post an image of your sketch of Steampunk Sagan. and all the best! … um,… bye, then… <click>[‘Well, that went reasonably well.’]d’you think?… i usually feel awkward leaving messages …[‘Yes, darling, you’re getting better.]well, i didn’t want to sound like i’m fawning … but i did want to make sure she knew i don’t think her work is bad – ‘i’ like her drawings … she’s very clever and has some good basic skills – it’s hard to tell exactly from gallery thumbnails how developed her talent is, but i do respect her for showing it … oh, well … nothing more to be done, i guess…[‘Right, then. Back to the millstone…’]…</click>

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