Really? I assumed it was just some local guy with a fairly common name.
Although it would explain the pretension and self righteousness in the statement.
Robert Hughes has spent the last decade basically screaming for attention as his celebrity waned, and essentially hates any artwork that isn’t pre industrial revolution.
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Really? I assumed it was just some local guy with a fairly common name.
Although it would explain the pretension and self righteousness in the statement.
Robert Hughes has spent the last decade basically screaming for attention as his celebrity waned, and essentially hates any artwork that isn’t pre industrial revolution.
But yes, I didn’t know that quote was his.
Ummmmm, A to the P, it’s a direct quote. Robert Hughes is Time Magazine’s art critic.
Translation
"…WHY AREN’T YOU PEOPLE BUYING MY PAINTINGS DAMNIT!"
But really, I actually agree’d with the guy until he signed his writing.
That smacks of pretension and self agrandising, where as an unsinged version would have left the message even more powerful.