Stuckism is a radical and controversial art group that was co-founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish (who left in 2001) along with eleven other artists. The name was derived by Thomson from an insult to Childish from his ex-girlfriend, Brit artist Tracey Emin, who had told him that his art was 'Stuck'. Stuckists are pro-contemporary figurative painting with ideas and anti-conceptual art, mainly because of its lack of concepts. Stuckists have regularly demonstrated dressed as clowns against the Turner Prize. Several Stuckist Manifestos have been issued. One of them Remodernism inaugurates a renewal of spiritual values for art, culture and society to replace the emptiness of current Postmodernism. The web site
www.stuckism.com, started by Ella Guru, has disseminated these ideas, and in five years Stuckism has grown to an international art movement with over 100 groups round the world. These groups are independent and self-directed.[/quote]
There was a major stuckist exhibition in Liverpool, at the Walker Art Gallery. Part of the general trend of many museums and art galleries refusing to challenge visitors with anything intelligent. 'Stuckist Manifesto'? What do they think they are?
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Brian Sewell is a member of the Catholic Church, so that doesn't surprise me pork. He also raises awareness of issues surrounding circumcision and other forms of surgical alteration of the genitals.
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When Brian Sewell appeared on
Have I Got News For You?, Ian Hislop remarked that they shared a mutual friend. Sewell's response was to comment that he failed to see how any friend of his could possibly also be a friend of Hislop's. I like Ian Hislop a lot, as it happens, but that was quite funny. Sewell's OK on the whole, although I like that Dixon fellow too. And Waldemar Januszczak is excellent.
Great women artists? Hilda Carline and Susan Hiller, to name but two.