Ok mr seasoned art professor, I'll give you that i was shamelessly name dropping which was an amateurish misstep in this clearly prestigious venue, but really, "wrapping yourself in the flag of anti-post-modernism is so over" is one of the silliest things i've ever seen written in a forum. I was just ranting a little about a painter who is really overrated and naming some examples that anyone with a cursory knowledge of painting would get. Its not like i'm writing a thesis here. A "surly dumbshit attitude about painting," says the pot to the kettle.

But seriously - I'm pretty sure that since we are "30 years past the death of post-modernism" beauty (beeeeeyoooooooty) is once again a safe part of painting criticism. We do have to actually look at Mr. Guston's crap paintings after all and not just discuss them using jargon and references to obscure submovements of art that are already irrelevant to anything happening in art today.

I do not like them sam i am!