Glenn Beck's Homemade Esthetics
I'm semi-reluctant to run this Glenn Beck clip because, the Internet being what it is, many of you will click on it, and then you will be watching Glenn Beck. Still, the weepy polemicist's foray into art criticism is so deliberately ignorant that it would be a shame to let it go without any refutation; fortunately for all of us, Modern Art Notes' Tyler Green is more than ready to tackle the job.
Fox News exploits this mentally ill man for ratings and he then goes on to exploit his mentally ill viewers to get reinforcement of his opinion that he's not a complete nut in need of meds but a truth sayer holding against the tide of socialism.
I'm increasingly convinced that Glenn Beck's career is going to end like scene straight out of the movie Scanners. He's going to go on some insane, deranged rant, we'll see a vein on his forehead start to throb, and then his head is going spontaneously pop like a grape.
Nah, Mandrake, it'll end exactly like Network. As soon as Beck rants against the Saudis who own stock in NewsCorp, Murdoch will brainwash him and then as his ratings go down, get Tim Robbins to shoot him.
Look, Beck is a complete and utter shithead, and I'm sure he stole his little account from here, but he's not entirely wrong about the Rockefeller Piccirilli reliefs. The art historian David Castriota wrote about them back in 1986, and while Google Books is rather stingy with the excerpt from his article, there's no doubt about his point:
Sure glad they took the hammer to Diego Rivera's Man At The Crossroads at Rock Center before Glenn Beck could see it: Commies galore! Also a great work of art destroyed in 1934.
I'm pretty sure there is a pill that could restore some balance to Glenn Beck's manic mood swings.
I keep thinking Wally George–YouTube him, kids, if you aren't familiar–only not as subtle.
Glenn Beck would be much more tolerable if he had Rebecca De Mornay as his (estranged) daughter.
Glenn Beck would be much more tolerable if he was cast as the male lead in a remake of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, and someone did a little work on the end of the story.
And after YouTubing Wally George a bit, everyone seems to be having fun, and he could take it as much as he could dish it. And the set design is absolutely perfect, far from the distance Beck has from anyone actually living in whatever America he thinks he's crusading for or against. George almost senses that whatever he believes isn't going to be taken too seriously, so he encourages the sense that we're all just inmates in this giant lunatic asylum that is America.
and given that rebecca de mornay shagged leonard cohen…that would be too fucking weird.
I couldn't even watch the whole clip. I hate it when people take art seriously. Now, where's my ladybag?
Nice art critic.
"he figure at the right doesn't represent Mussolini. It's just a generic, heroic male figure representing industry."
The horses in the middle represent industry NOT on the man on the right. The man on the right would be the leader driving industry, who in 1933 wouldve be Mussolini.
"There is no evidence to indicate that Piccirilli was a fascist-sympathizer." can also mean there is no evidence he wasnt. In the 20' and early 30's Mussolini was an international hero to many. Scholars looked to Italy for ways to lift the country out of the Depression. Fascism was yet to be a bad word.
Then it was all down hill from there.