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From: Coleen
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 03 March 2004
The galleries look great without the dividing walls, like a real show, not cubicles. Not crappy and caged in. The work sparkles with poppy brightness, and your first thought is brilliant, not boring,ballsy,up yours swinging 60s surrealism, these guys deserve to be at the top of the tree. Not for long. You get dulled as you walk round the cigarette butt jesus and the operations on penis and vagina, and the gorillas, and billboard paintings, and the big truck. Not so wonderful. No wonder no shock, no thrill of looking at art, no feelings whatsoever. Not like El Greco or boring old Guston who hypnotize you with their strange powers. What's the point of Britart, to shock Daily mail readers who are still shocked by abstract paintings, ok its good to shock boring people, better than nothing, but not much, if you can't make beauty or thought work, then its something, but not the best we can do.
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