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Too bad for posteriority... I crashed my blog because of a host migration mistake... I lost almost all the content. I have to put it back online. Positive news : My art will appear mid-march in some French Art magazine and I will have a piece of Money Art exhibited in McGowan Fine Art gallery in Concord, NH, during Feb.
Website back online with a few art prints available. http://www.cedricmnich.com/blog Thanks for your interest.
Hahahaha! The only thing that separates you from Damien Hirst is warehouse space and canvas!!! Learn how to build stretcher boards and make your own canvas. Your art is absolutly terrible and I cannot believe you have the audacity to create a fairly nice site to try and sell that garbage when so many better, well trained artists can hardly feed themselves. Your concept is... Wait, what concept? You saw Wall Street. Woo hoo. Talk about a mid-life crisis. And don't try and make me feel bad for telling you your art is terrible (which is a fairly honest and objective opinion), esp. when you pump it every few days on here. Wow.
Ahah No actually, there are far many other things separating me from Hirst. A few million dollars for example or 50 employees making my ideas for real Who cares that you think my art is garbage ? I don't. Are you some art advisor ? a curator ? an art critic ? a renowned collector ? No. you're a jazz drummer who wanna be a trader. Therefore, your opinion about my art is as worthless as mine on Jazz, or Hirst's art. As far as a few people appreciate what I do, I'm satisfied with it. And I don't think some professional art revue would have contacted me if it was total garbage. I am not as talented as many artists for sure. But start with painting the same Gordon Gekko oil portrait that I did, show it to me and if it is really better, then you can say mine is garbage. Oh, by the way, it is a $2000 garbage because I sold it You say that there are so many better, well trained artists who can hardly feed themselves. True. That's what I think everyday when I see Koons or Hirst stuff. Too bad for them if they are not able to feed themselves if their art is excellent. Probably a lack of marketing talent ;-) A funny thing is that the Hirst painting above is no more than liquid paint dropped on a high speed turning canvas. I did that when I was 7. If I was to sell that on my website, you'd probably say it's garbage. But I'd bet you would pay a few million dollars if it was signed by Hirst. That probably separates you from me ;-) All the best to you for 2009 and your choice of career. But Jazz drumming and trading is not incompatible. You can do both.
I always love when people make the excuse, "I did that when I was 7..." So essentially, "big deal." Yeah, I could do Rothko and you could play sax better than Albert Ayler. A time and place for everything... And your art has no time or place. "Therefore, my art is the meeting place between Technology and Media, Finance and World History, Human emotions and Art." Yes, as depicted in placing candlesticks on George Washington's face. Really great synthesis of ideas there... It fits in the same class as grocery store paperbacks and Kenny G albums, i.e. absolutly no depth and speaks to nothing beyond the, "oh, isn't that interesting." You have this "Tradeart" classification, but in reality your art has no central theme, no concept. Yeah, it's about money. Woo hoo. At least Hirst has the balls to make a painting about materialism through representation instead of handing it on a platter to you like you're some dumbass who can't understand abstractions. WHEW! $2,000 for an oil of... Gekko. I'm sure none of my friends at MICA or University of Chicago could do that! You just might be able to get a job with Thomas Kinkade. No, I'm not an art critic, but I've grown up around *good* art and can smell bullshit pretty well, and nothing makes me more angry than terrible art, whether it be music, visual, writing etc. especially when it is hustled like it's hot shit. My opinion is useless, but I am just saying what anyone with half a brain thinks when he or she sees your art. And I don't mean to be unnecessarily mean, but I am young and some things still tend to surprise me. As us musicians would say, I think you should spend a little more time in the shed. And that's all I got to say about that.
This is your opinion and I am not trying to convince you of anything. I would certainly not argue that what Rothko painted was easy. Actually it was not. You misunderstood me, as I expected, about the "A 7 year kid could do that" most people say in front of contemporary art. What Hirst made with that spin painting is something I truly made as a kid (I think I still have it somewhere around) that is why I see nothing extraordinary there. So his painting is about materialism ? I'm impressed As if putting an astract title on it makes it clever... Whatever shit he makes, somebody will buy it a few millions. Just check out his website : he's actually selling limited series of skull drawings with diamond dust for several thousands of pounds. woohoo. This is terrific art I'm not impressed by his art anyway and Hirst is not the subject. Yeah, 2000$ for an oil of Gekko. So what ? Your friends at any art school can most certainly do far better. Who pretends anything else ? I certainly don't. There are THOUSANDS of people who are EXCELLENT painters around the world. So what ? There are THOUSANDS of drummers who play better than you. Do you stop playing the drums for that ? I made a painting. Several people loved it and wanted to buy it. It is FAR from being worse than some art you can see in many galleries at 20,000 dollars. I don't know Thomas Kinkade but as I can see on his website, he worked at Bakshi's studio on Fire & Ice. I therefore have much respect for that guy as he worked on Frazetta's movie. You are aggressive for absolutely no reason. Now, think what you want of my art. I don't care. You're some unknown guy somewhere, posting under a pseudonym. You're losing your time (and mine) criticizing what I do. You are behaving just as if I had pretended I was the new artist of the Century. lol, that discussion is ridiculous. You don't like me ? Just ignore me
Oh and for your information, the candlesticks on Washington's face are the evolution of the dollar against Euro between 2000 and 2007. Not "just candlesticks". Unfortunately, you did not even ask what was the idea behind that piece, which I won't bother to explain to you as it is already late here in France and I see no point in wasting more time. You did exactly what most people do : judge at first glance. Just like people saying Klein just put blue paint on canvas.
You're beautiful, because you remind me that no matter how long or hard I work, or how good or great or terrible I become, there will always be some idiot with good marketing skills trying to sell his bullshit, and people will buy it. I love you.