A synopsis of recent art manifestos
http://www.oturn.net/probe/art-manifestos.html
Anti-anti-art
The Spirit of what needs to be done
1. The Stuckists are anti-anti-art.
2. Conceptual art (and its parochial manifestation as Brit Art) is based on and justified by the art of Marcel Duchamp.
3. The art of Marcel Duchamp is not art. It is anti-art by intent and effect.
4.To justify anti-art there must be the existence of art.
5. Duchamp's work was a protest against the stale, unthinking artistic establishment of his day.
6. Today's art is anti-art.
7. Today's art is not art. Its working methodology is to think of something which is not art and to call it art. This is exactly Duchamp's ideology.
8. (Conceptualism is so called not because it generates a plethora of concepts, but because it never manages to progress beyond one single concept, namely Duchamp's original thought.)
9. The great (but wholly unintentional) irony of Post Modernism is that it is a direct equivalent of the conformist, unoriginal establishment that Duchamp attacked in the first place.
10. The principle of anti-art is meaningless in the absence of art to be anti.
11. The only viable innovation today is the true Duchampian path of anti-pretentious, self-congratulatory, claustrophobic, talentless artistic conformism, e.g. the Saatchi Gallery.
12. The Stuckists are the true inheritors of the spirit of what needs to be done.
13. Anti-anti-art is for art.
http://www.stuckism.com/StuckistAntiAntiArt.html
My Art Manifesto
2. nothing is negative, because there's nothing is turely ugly or aboulst.
3. treasure every piece I made, because everyone of them is part of my sould.
4. have passion, because life fills with excitement.
5. always enjoy the process, because it will lead to good result.
