art.

People often say, "Hey Jesus, how come if you are an artist you never write about art?"
Awesome Q, my friends.
The reason is since I am an artist, I'm not really an art critic. That'd be like a chef writing restaurant reviews. It's a biased, gluttonous, narcissistic role to play and quite frankly being self-centered isn't my style. Might be someone else's but definitely not mine. Instead, I like to focus on my own work and my own life instead of always acting like I'm the only person of any true significance. As a rule I try to talk about myself as little as I can, but sometimes I think I end up talking about myself because I can't think of anything as important as me I feel.

Well rules were meant to be broken and I will discuss my beliefs about art.

I think the sole purpose of the visual fine arts should be to generate income. As children, when we visited art galleries and were first experienced to price tags with several digits being a career artist just seemed like the most logical vocation possible. In regard to the starving artist phenomenon, this problem is not the fault of the visual arts but a crime committed by non-visual artists who decide to visit art galleries without buying anything. It's like they go to Starbucks just to smell. Well I'm sorry this painting isn't 180 degrees and doesn't cost five bucks before being disposed in a trash can and public urinal and you need four of them to get you through the day. Fuck your buying tendencies. Buy my work and brag to your friends how expensive it was and how much of a genius I am and how smart you were to buy my work when you did because it's gonna be way more expensive in a few years. Oh GOD how expensive it's gonna be! Just think of all those zeros!


As the great Pablo Jueves said, "An [artist's] ego dissolves when [his] paint dries." We as artists love our works until they are finished. Once completed they cease to belong to the creators, and must become collected by a third party. A finished painting is of no value to its painter. The painter's job is to paint again, not to have painted previously. Thus collecting is essential to the lifespan of a work of art. Without a collector, the painting will most likely never be taken more seriously as anything more than the canvas it is painted on and will often be painted over or constantly altered.

A really good thing about being a great artist is women want to have sex with you even if they are much wealthier than you. This is one of the few vocations where this frequently happens. Even when people aren't buying your work they feel bad that someone with so much potential fails so horribly at life they tend to buy you stuff and ask your opinion about things you aren't at all qualified to talk about as if your opinion mattered. This is my second philosophical argument in favor of what I was talking about.

If you don't buy art, specifically my art, you are singlehandedly murdering culture and everything you stand for. So instead of complaining about how pop culture sucks and is bad for children, put your money where your mouth is (DEEZ NUTS) and buy something worth owning and occasionally noticing its presence.

Your pal,
J.P.