The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists respond to The Courier: ‘Stuckism’: Emancipating art or Stifling Creativity.
There’s no linchpin. Nothing connects Robert Janás photography with Edgeworth Johnstone painting.
The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists declare in our manifesto Stuckism Art Opposition:
Pitching oneself relative to what one is not is for ones that have not.
If Stuckism was best defined by what it isn’t, it wouldn’t be worth bothering with. As we declare in our Stuck Near Tate Modern manifesto:
The Stuckists demo 2 days a year, paint 363, and the press call us a ‘protest group’.
Stuckism’s best defined by standing in front of a Ron Throop painting. Yet, for every article on Stuckism that fails to mentions Ron Throop, there’s ten thousand that mention Tracey Emin.
Stuckism’s a second-hand record store you spend half your afternoon flicking through because you know there’s diamonds in the rough and nothing at HMV.
The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists put to bed the following three unimportant questions:
Question 1: Should art be for a wealthy elite?
Answer: Who cares?
Question 2: Should art be so commercialised?
Answer: Who cares?
Question 3: And most unimportantly, should art be so ambivalent at the expense of ‘authenticity’?
Answer: Who cares?
The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists impression of every article on Stuckism ever written: ‘blah, blah, blah, Tracey Emin, blah, blah, blah.‘
The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists proudly declare ‘We’re a moribund troupe of alternative painters lamenting dead art movements who celebrate Saatchi’s conceptualist cronyism. We’re beyond Stuckism at its worst.
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