#PIZZAGATE & DEGENERATE ART

by Buffalo Jenkins

The recent #pizzagate scandal, a true spiderweb of iniquity, is a complex criss-crossing of overlapping degeneracies. This web is dappled with hanging dewdrops of defamation, intrigue, and a liberal decadence of the extreme variety. Indeed the case has the dark enmity of an ‘evil’ so objective it is fairly safe to use that word without hubris or doubt.

Art, culture, conformity, and "progressiveness" all factor into this rendezvous of depravity. Actual crimes have yet to be proven, despite what many suspect, thought here is a definitely worrisome congress of evidence. However, there are enough known facts to laud this as a fine example of our worrisome times: our blind, nonchalant stroll into incidental villainy and ruination.

FRANCIS BACON AND THE DEGENERATION OF THE WEST

Lucien Freud or the Elephant Man?

by Tim Haydon

A triptych by the Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon was sold by Christie’s in New York for the record sum for any artwork at auction of £89 million this month.

Bacon’s three depictions of Freud seem sketchy indeed. Each shows him seated within a framework of lines that look like aids to drawing perspective. Freud’s foot escapes from this framework cage in some sort of symbolism. The artist breaking the boundaries of art?

Freud’s face is a distorted blob, as if, instead of Freud as a sitter, Bacon was in lurid fashion painting the Elephant Man. Actually, if one had not been told, one would have no idea who the sitter was. It could have been almost anyone – a stranger off the street. And here we have the key to this work. For who tells us that this is Freud? It is Francis Bacon, the artist.