Stuckism
A neo-conservative movement in the United
Kingdom formed in 1999 by the leading founder artists Billy Childish calling themselves 'the first remondernist art group - the
stucists.'
They are to be seen as 'opposed
to the current
pretensions of so-called performance art, pop art, BritArt, minimalism, conceptualism,
installation art, video art and
anything claiming to be art which incorporates dead animals, tents
or beds - mainly because they are unremarkable and boring'.
'The name of the
group was derived,
in the best art historical tradition, from an insult, in this case
from current Turner Prize Nominee Tracey Emin's
evaluation of ex-boyfriend Billy Childish's 1,500 paintings over a 15-year period which was:
"Your
paintings are stuck, you are stuck!
Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!"
This was quoted in a
poem by Billy Childish. Charles Thomson subsequently coined the term
'STUCKISM' and suggested they join forces to found a group. The most
important ideas behind this impetus are contained in a co-written
Manifesto.
This has been followed by
Remodernism
'towards a new spirituality in art', a period to replace the
current bankruptcy of Postmodernism.
quotation from Charles Thomson:
"We are happy to be radical and modern
in our subject matter, so long as it is painted using conservative
techniques. These days we are the ones who are anti-establishment."
another quotation:
"...Painting done by
'Stuckists' - which is actually concerned with
painting pictures rather than painting paintings of paint"
INFO ABOUT
'STUCKISM':
- is a new, radical
art movement founded to advance the cause of painting as the most
vital artistic means of addressing contemporary issues.
- is a rebuttal of the
twentieth century development of modernism, which has resulted in an
increasingly fragmented, isolated, material-obsessed and stultifying
academia, existing not by virtue of the work but institutional and
financial power, flattered by a surfeit of critical acquiescence.
Representative
painters:
The Stuckist Group (click on name for picture/info)
Philip Absolon, Frances
Castle,
Billy
Childish, Sheila
Clark, Eamon
Everall, Ella
Guru,
Wolf
Howard,
Bill
Lewis,
Sanchia
Lewis,
Joe
Machine,
Sexton
Ming,
Charles
Thomson,
Charles
Williams,
The
first Remodernist art group - The Stuckists
website:
http://www.support.synergy-interactive.co.uk/stuckism/index.html#start
e-mail: Ella Guru