Idea #1
The Museum of Everyday Art
This came to me one day when I was watching my 2 year old son draw. Why is that some artists are deemed good enough to get put in museums? and other art is not even considered as such? I am clueless to the inner workings of the art scene, but I still remember in 6th grade seeing a painting called "Homage to a Square" that was a painting of a green square. That is very lame.
I want to start an art museum in a very ordinary town. I have never been to Iowa or Kansas, but I have a feeling that it is very boring and ordinary there so I want to build the museum there. It would house all the art that ordinarily gets pitched: kids drawings, notebook doodles, accidental creations (be them paper, food, broken toys, or any other medium). The artists would all be normal everyday types like you and me. No fruitcakes like Warhol. He already has his own museum. This would be the vox populi for the average American. Although, themes need not be strictly American. I thought of sending you a collage made from Japaense newspaper ads, something so mundane here, but that would be semi-exotic there. I even thought of just sending you the entire ad: for a grocery store or a shoe store. I am not too familiar with fluxus, but to me, that sounds like fluxus. You could frame the pachinko parlor ad and hang it on a wall. That would be everyday art. You could have a room with white walls and several boxes of Crayola 64. These would be works in progress. Only kids 5 and under could go in. Every week you remove the white boards, and put in new ones. These could go on the road as travelling bits.
It is possible.
This came to me one day when I was watching my 2 year old son draw. Why is that some artists are deemed good enough to get put in museums? and other art is not even considered as such? I am clueless to the inner workings of the art scene, but I still remember in 6th grade seeing a painting called "Homage to a Square" that was a painting of a green square. That is very lame.
I want to start an art museum in a very ordinary town. I have never been to Iowa or Kansas, but I have a feeling that it is very boring and ordinary there so I want to build the museum there. It would house all the art that ordinarily gets pitched: kids drawings, notebook doodles, accidental creations (be them paper, food, broken toys, or any other medium). The artists would all be normal everyday types like you and me. No fruitcakes like Warhol. He already has his own museum. This would be the vox populi for the average American. Although, themes need not be strictly American. I thought of sending you a collage made from Japaense newspaper ads, something so mundane here, but that would be semi-exotic there. I even thought of just sending you the entire ad: for a grocery store or a shoe store. I am not too familiar with fluxus, but to me, that sounds like fluxus. You could frame the pachinko parlor ad and hang it on a wall. That would be everyday art. You could have a room with white walls and several boxes of Crayola 64. These would be works in progress. Only kids 5 and under could go in. Every week you remove the white boards, and put in new ones. These could go on the road as travelling bits.
It is possible.
posted by Joel @ 2:18 AM
4 Comments:
At 10:19 AM,
Troy said…
Dude, I like it. Did I ever tell you about the time I worked in a hotel as a technician? We would always go into the meeting rooms afterwards to clear out the equipment before the cleaning crew came in. For meetings the hotel would always put down pens and pads of paper. There would always be drawings that some bored person made. Whenever advertising or marketing groups came, there was always higher-quality doodles. Anyway, we got to the point where we had collected something on the order of 200+ pieces. I wanted to exhibit them somewhere. I ended up quitting and gave nearly all of them to the guy I worked with to continue the collection. I thought it was genius. There were shapes and squiggly lines and such, sometimes a note passed to somebody else at the table like, "Johnny, do you want to play golf on Tuesday?" etc. All on hotel stationery.
But alas, it never came to fruition. So I let it go, like I do with most my ideas.
This blog is the place for things like that, I like as few rules as possible. I'll number my ideas or something like that.
At 9:57 PM,
Joel said…
Just let it flow, then we find out that we have some ideas that are very much alike. I like it. Executive doodles. You see, in the US, I think it would be totally feasable. I mean anyone can open the door to their house and call it a "gallery." Are you still in touch with the Fast House crew? I mean, PriceMaster was brilliant, and I bet those guys would be in for something zany.
We don't need a numbering rule, you are right, rules suck. I just spent a week translating 6 sets of new regulations for these new positions they are creating. And the fact of the matter is, they were 90% all the same with all the legal mumbo jumbo "pursuant to this and that. "
But I would like to see how often I can use the word "zany." There are not enough good Z words in the world. Oh, I just got another idea...
At 2:03 PM,
Troy said…
Zany is the way of the walk. Unfortunately no, I don't see the fasties anymore, they're all spread out over the country. Ronnie is up in NYC taking his Master's at Columbia. Nathan (the P.M.) is out west in Portland, OR. I think he's trying to be more active in politics. Wes is in FW and Rich is down in San Antonio. The other collaborators I've lost track with. Sadly the fast house was like a punk rock band. Put out a few good ones and then faded away.
Wes has been making lots of videos and graphics, though. I'll see if he has any material. We should do the multimedia thing with some pics and stuff.
At 3:19 AM,
Joel said…
I7ll keep my eyte out for weird Japanese flyers. Get half a tree's worht with every monrning paper. You could proabbly digitize them and start your own Johntroy brand of modern chic wallpaper
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