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Crime / Visual Art Cop-Killer Suspect A 'Serious' Painter: 'Does not believe in any particular set of rules as far as artistic expression is concerned.'
Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:34 AM
This weekend Goldy found a disturbing thing: the web site for a 2003 art show of Christopher Monfort's, um, paintings. They are unbelievably terrible. He viewed them as cheerful, but they look like blood on fire and other extreme unpleasantnesses.
If you haven't seen his graduate-school paper about "Nullification both Conceptual and Actual"—another of Monfort's early weird contributions to the world—it's here.
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His work is only creepy in retrospect. Had he not gone on to shoot a cop, his rejection of rules of artistic expression would probably be applauded as challenging, iconoclastic, or somesuch other art-crit wank buzzword of the month.
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HE IS IMPORTANT SEATTLE ARTIST!
CONSPIRACY ALL MAKES SENSE! SO MUCH IMPORTANT SENSE!
HE WATCHING ITCHING, WE SCRATCHED!
ATTRACTED THE IMPORTANT SEATTLE ARTIST!
CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK/FUCKING PURR.
CONSPIRACY ALL MAKES SENSE! SO MUCH IMPORTANT SENSE!
HE WATCHING ITCHING, WE SCRATCHED!
ATTRACTED THE IMPORTANT SEATTLE ARTIST!
CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK/FUCKING PURR.
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ALSO APPARENTLY NIHILIST. Y THIS WORK NOT IMPORTANT!
SAM NEED RETROSPECTIVE, JON WAYYNE GACY STYLEZ OR SOME SUCH. MAYBE DURING A REMIXXX? DUNNO, PARTY TIME PRETTY CRAZY. HEARD A CRAWL INSIDE TIME SPACE FUN.
SAM NEED RETROSPECTIVE, JON WAYYNE GACY STYLEZ OR SOME SUCH. MAYBE DURING A REMIXXX? DUNNO, PARTY TIME PRETTY CRAZY. HEARD A CRAWL INSIDE TIME SPACE FUN.
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"Monfort plans to complete two degrees before leaving Highline; a transfer degree and a degree in Administration of Justice. He then plans to earn a bachelors degree and possibly head for Harvard Law School. His alternate plan is to earn a Masters degree and teach at a college somewhere warm!"
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Frankly, I think his crap would fit in just fine with the wankery you described in your other post today about Crawl Space. I think that you project creepyness onto his work, because you know what he did. Nestle his shite among much of the art that you regularly praise, and you wouldn't bat an eye. The difference with him is that he doesn't talk a good game like the artists you admire, and he is a weirdo murderer. Ok, Ok, I admit it. Much modern art rubs me the wrong way, and I think most reviews of modern art are actually responses to the artist, not the art.
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@8 is correct. This art isn't creepy, or foreshadowing, or anything else: it's just shitty. One of the rules you CAN'T break is "having a clue". This guy has "loser" stamped all over him. Harvard Law, yeah, right.
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Well, I read Jen's post and thought "How bad could it be?" but these pieces are just hopelessly awful. So, can anybody see the connection between someone so delusional as to think his dawbings are serious art to his laughable career goals to his weirdly incoherent rant on juror nullification to having a house full of IEDs to the bizarre idea that you could blow away a cop, leaving a witness, and still get away with it? The guy lives in another reality.
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I've heard many a person snark that a kid could have created [insert any contemporary art piece here], but Montfort's shit really does look like a kid painted it.
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It's an interesting tie to the Ft. Hood shooter. Both more-or-less ordinary dudes, not too bright, with aspirations to be better, to be "special": one wanted to be a doctor, one wanted Harvard Law. They could SEE their goal, but neither was smart enough or good enough to attain it. That's more than failure; it's a metaphysical failure. A guy sits and stews on the subject of "I suck" long enough, bad things happen to his mind.
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WAIT IZ IT TIME OF YR FOR FNARF TO EMERGE FROM ADVENTURE BLOG TIME!?!?!??! I SO PSYCHED!~! FNARD!!! TALK 2 EE!? PAINT LOOKS LIKE STRAWS LOOKS LIKE DUDE WHO IS FEGGE WHO PAINTED HIS CAT??!?!?!!
MMMM WHITE KITTY SO SMART! FIGURE OUT ALL THE CONNEX. FNARF, YOU R MO! MO, U R PSYCHADELIC! SHOOTER/IMPORTANT ARTIST, U R DED~!
DON'T FUX WITH POLICE (DON'T GET CAUGHT LOL)
MMMM WHITE KITTY SO SMART! FIGURE OUT ALL THE CONNEX. FNARF, YOU R MO! MO, U R PSYCHADELIC! SHOOTER/IMPORTANT ARTIST, U R DED~!
DON'T FUX WITH POLICE (DON'T GET CAUGHT LOL)
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Fnark commenting on Art
oh boy. is there nothing he can't try to pull out of his basement lurking ass?
oh boy. is there nothing he can't try to pull out of his basement lurking ass?
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