Comments on: Emerging Artist Summer Series: Elaine Kaufmann http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/08/21/emerging-artist-summer-series-elaine-kaufmann/ As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:08:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Art Fag City http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/08/21/emerging-artist-summer-series-elaine-kaufmann/comment-page-1/#comment-7397 Art Fag City Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:10:18 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/08/21/emerging-artist-summer-series-elaine-kaufmann/#comment-7397 Well, that's the point right - that we're distanced. Personally, I'd like to see a lot more didactism in the art world than we currently do. Who are the emerging artists with overt political stances and the platforms to voice them? Not many that's for sure. In any case, I don't buy that the "wow, poor people. I never noticed them and ooooo I hate those rich people" you speak of is so implicit in the work (though your comment is pretty funny.) To my mind the drawings are much more about the construction of a lifestyle facade than they are about revealing the economic relationship between third and first worlds. Well, that’s the point right - that we’re distanced. Personally, I’d like to see a lot more didactism in the art world than we currently do. Who are the emerging artists with overt political stances and the platforms to voice them? Not many that’s for sure.

In any case, I don’t buy that the “wow, poor people. I never noticed them and ooooo I hate those rich people” you speak of is so implicit in the work (though your comment is pretty funny.) To my mind the drawings are much more about the construction of a lifestyle facade than they are about revealing the economic relationship between third and first worlds.

]]> By: your mom http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/08/21/emerging-artist-summer-series-elaine-kaufmann/comment-page-1/#comment-7395 your mom Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:26:53 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2007/08/21/emerging-artist-summer-series-elaine-kaufmann/#comment-7395 I cant think of any better way to distance oneself from social issues than to use dry humor and a generic image of "developing" (to use an outdated term) country housing. The easiest way to give your artwork a little bit of socially conscious spice. Kind of crappy and preachy in a very distant way. Wow, poor people. I never noticed them and oooooo I hate those rich people. Good job. Elaine Kaufmann, I cant believe you got away with it. It is the clever deadpan humour that holds this work together. Oh and thanks again for posting a piece of art that connects me to the world. I cant think of any better way to distance oneself from social issues than to use dry humor and a generic image of “developing” (to use an outdated term) country housing. The easiest way to give your artwork a little bit of socially conscious spice. Kind of crappy and preachy in a very distant way. Wow, poor people. I never noticed them and oooooo I hate those rich people. Good job. Elaine Kaufmann, I cant believe you got away with it. It is the clever deadpan humour that holds this work together. Oh and thanks again for posting a piece of art that connects me to the world.

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