The Enemies of Art: The StuckistsInternational art movement for contemporary figurative painting with ideas. Anti the pretensions of conceptual art. Anti-anti-art. The first Remodernist art group. Daubers (daubing is the new painting). -- from the Stuckist web site (http: //www.stuckism.com)Founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish with 11 other artists to promote contemporary figurative painting adn oppose conceptual art as lacking in real worth, the Stuckists aroused considerable hostility from poeple in the art world, but gained considerable support too, the movement now having grown to include 200 groups in 47 countries |
