“A lot of bad artists have made a lot of money,”

Is it the case that we don’t like to highlight these artists and works as bad, as they have made a lot of money???

Money=power. It is the case that these artists and works have generated a lot of attention and in turn money. This leaves anybody that has not made as much from there work (us) unable to comment on the works without appearing to be jealous.

Hermann Nitsch,"Orgies-Mysteries-Theater".

Orgies of Mystery Theatre, by Hermann Nitsch, a display of music and dance amongst "dismembered animal corpses", at 1966's Destruction in Art Symposium.

These works stand out as shocking in an otherwise conservative gallery environment but are they shocking when we see them united as a show . or they shown for what they are, unimporatant objects employing a sense of the absurd to make them art.

Stripped of any shocking qualities when all seen together, we are in childs absurd dream not a modern art gallery.

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The Guardian – May 16, 2000

One-man show at the Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, 2000

GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, THE MAN WHO USED HIS OWN BLOOD TO PAINT HITLER

by Kate Connolly

………………‘Kate Connolly meets Gottfried Helnwein, the Austrian who is still confronting his country's Nazi past. It could have been worse. At least he doesn't look like his self-portraits, in which bandages swathe his head, bent forks pull his mouth into a mocking smile and blood drenches his torso. Helnwein, 52, is a master of the scandalous and the art of shocking. The artist Robert Crumb once said of him: "Helnwein is a very fine artist and one sick motherf**ker." "You can get things moving in a very subtle way, you can get even the strong and powerful to slide and totter - anything, actually, if you know the weak points and tap at them ever so gently by aesthetic means."’

http://www.helnwein-archive.com/39/one-man_show_at_the_robert_sandelson_gallery_london_2000.html?section=

Helmwein painted a picture of Adolf Hitler with his own blood & In 1996 the Adoration of the Magi with Adolf Hitler as Baby Jesus, which was displayed at the State Russian Museum St. Petersburg.