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"That whole phrase exists because there was no definition for what was actually going on. When all the artists were doing what we now call Impressionism, they couldn't name it at the time so they just said, 'squiggly painting,' 'crazy artists.' That's what 'famous for being famous' sounds like to me: a person not being able to properly define what a movement is and what that movement was doing."
—For those of you who always had the sense that Paris Hilton was some sort of art project, here is your sweet vindication.
Say what you will about Gauguin, he made a hell of a sex tape.
"Squiggly painting?" Sadly, no. "Impressionist" WAS the name used to refer to those painters, and whether or not you thought it was a good thing, at least it tried to describe the characteristics of the work. "Famous for being famous" is not any more descriptive than "empty hype."
@Jared To be fair, "impressionist" was first used derisively (a la "famous for being famous").
If this whatever-it-is is a movement, it most resembles a bowel movement.
Ah, to have been in Paris in the 19th century, to see the famed Salon de Squiggly Painting.