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Thursday, October 13, 2011
10:36 am
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Tagged: China Chow, funny, hilarious, jazz-minh, recap, sexypanda, Simon de Pury, spoof, the sucklord, Work of Art
Jerry’s back with a stink-eye! Yay!
Hooray! Welcome back, ‘Gasmii! It’s time for another round of “How the hell do you do a reality show based on ART??!” I didn’t realize how much I missed Work of Art until it graced my TV screen again last night for the Season 2 premiere. I want to make sure I give it my full attention and not rush through a half-assed recap–so stay tuned for the full recap over the weekend sometime. In the meantime, here’s a taste of what happened last night.
They kept the exact same format as last year, which is comforting. The artists all meet up at the Brooklyn Museum, check out each others’ self-portraits (some are weird, some are awesome, and some just suck), and size up the competition. There’s a guy called The Sucklord, whom I was prepared to DESPISE, but I actually liked him. A lot. There’s a deaf Malaysian guy who breaks my heart a little, a handful of quirkily pretty brunettes, a “street artist,” and a dude from Arkansas with a mini-mullet.
Then China Chow and Simon de Pury strut out to greet them, and I get tears in my eyes. What a sap!
The first challenge starts right away. The contestants are taken to an offshoot gallery at the Brooklyn Museum, where a shit-ton of hideous yard-sale art is displayed. Most of the artists try to be nice about it when asked, but they all think it’s awful. Good news! It’s meant to be! And you’re meant to take it and make it an outstanding piece of your own art. Go!
Some of the artists are pretty flexible and some are pretty rigid in what they usually do, and we see that shit come out right away. I think I know right away who’s going home first, and it’s a politically incorrect decision, but it has to be made. But don’t let me get ahead of myself!
Anyway, they do the whole gallery show, people look at it all and talk about it, and then the judges talk to the top three and the worst three. Someone wins! And three people’s art gets shit on (deservedly). And one person goes home–and it’s not who I expected. But it’s also the right decision.
Man, I’m not used to writing these mini/teaser recaps. Sorry. Just come back for the full thing this weekend, and otherwise join me as we talk about WORK OF ART! (Hooray!!!)
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Yaaaaay! I was gonna harass Flipit to see if you’d be recapping again this season, cause you were the PERFECT capper for this show last year.
I like this year group better than last, just based on the self-portraits and first challenge. The Arkansas art teacher’s self-portrait was all sorts of cool. I like his style a lot. I loved the painting that quirky brunette #3 did using quirky brunette #4 as a model. It made me happy. I find quirky bulemia brunette sort of hot, even though I’m sure I’d want to smack her after a couple days. Sucklord is surprisingly endearing. I agree that they sent the right person home. Not because his work was the worst, but because it was pretty obvious that this was about all he could do and it wasn’t going to grow or get any better.
Can’t wait to read your full recap. I can’t believe how much I love this show.
So glad everything is the same…including your recaps. I loved last season and I’m happy to see they followed the reality TV trope of giving everything, including the contestants an upgrade.
But I didn’t think they sent the right person home. Not because this person was good but someone else was laughably, amateurishly worse. Still, not crying over the elimination.
And Dusty’s mullet was its own work of art.
Aww yay, you guys make a girl feel good…
…except when she goes back to read some of the recaps from last season and realizes that a year of lesser reality TV recapping has rotted her brain a bit. I don’t know if I can live up to myself! (Which is why I bought time to get this done over the weekend, phew.) I’ll do my best, I hope I won’t letcha down!
I really love this show, too, so glad it’s back!!
@vallegirl, without giving too much away, if they’d sent home the worst contestant do you think it may have been a little too trope-worthy…? He was terrible though, and I can’t imagine he’ll last more than a few episodes. I think they were more curious to see what else he could do though, since the guy that did get sent home basically said that was all he could do.
True and True. I’m not broken up about who got eliminated because the piece was tedious and Erik and his clown on a palette portrait somehow lasted until the final 8 last season so clearly being awful isn’t a problem, but still. That was one bad “work of art.”
And SP, I’ll totally geek out and admit that when last season ended it felt like the end of summer camp. I missed our little, overinvested (at least me) group so much.
I don’t “get” a lot of what is considered by my betters to be art, but yet I enjoyed the entire first season and read all your recaps, so I’m glad you’re back for more recapping. I’ve seen the efforts of public high school art classes that, to me anyway, were not any worse than the bottom three of these rising stars. And call me provincial, but one of the top three works, of that woman in chains being barbequed over an open fire with a rotisserie spit stuck up her ass, is not something that I would ever want to see hanging on one of my walls.
OMG Cranky . . . better not look at my wall . . . LOL!!! Tho I did like her style, and over all darkness, I hope that’s not all she does.
I’m gonna join Valle on the “who should have gone” train . . . I hate that image in every way, before he got it, after and forever. it would never, ever be displayed as art. The one note guy, who I actually thought was going from the start, was just as well to dismiss, but I could see someone hanging his piece.
I mainly appreciate the paper work and the painting of the photo . . . she whipped that out quick!
I’m very glad to have the show back, and all you awesome peeps to come in here and kvetch about it all!!! Yay!!!
There’s clearly some peeps that aren’t going to last. I’m wondering how long viscera girl will last.
Smooches SP!!!
This was my first episode ever and was surprised that I enjoyed it so much (As a starving artist with few sales and always at a loss, I figured the show would be painful to watch). I’m soooo thankful they canned “one-trick” first, but found most of the contestants at least interesting. What’s with Jazz-myn (or whatever spelling)? From her bio video and the piece she did for the competition, it appears that she only paints self-portraits. Of herself. Only.
@Wilma – There was a girl like that last year except she just took naked pictures. Of herself. Only. She made top four.
Yay! I’m so excited! Not only for the show itself but for SexyP’s recaps and the camaraderie and intellectual debates that are sure to follow in the comment section. Like you, Valle, I also felt sad when the show ended because that meant an end to our ‘summer camp’. This was the first show that I began commenting on and what made me love this site so much that I soon moved to commenting and watching other recapped shows. Sadly, I got sucked into the Housewives vacuum and lost a few IQ points in the process, but here I am. Virtually HWs free! (I can’t quit the BH girls just yet, though. lol)
This season seems pretty promising…
Vicera (my nickname for the blood-and-guts chick) just seems to want to shock. I have to see more of her stuff to know if there’s any substance beyond that. I found myself liking “Sexy Pig” both for it’s whimsy and it’s darkness. Juddfan, I want to see your walls! I’ve seen your music video so I already know how beautifully dark you can be.
I was watching the episode, and when the blonde said she was in a hit and run accident, I bolted up and rewound to get a look at her hometown. Brooklyn. Lightbulb! I’d read about her recently. She and her bf had a several page article in the Village Voice written up about them. This was about a year after the accident (which I didn’t know about) and she was recovered, but it told the story of how she and her beau were hit while on their bikes and how the driver left the scene. The car was abandoned a few blocks away and when it was traced to the driver, the cops wouldn’t arrest him because the owner said he wasn’t driving it therefore it must’ve been stolen. No charges have been made and the case is all but closed.
The article then went on to discuss her bf’s band (forgot the name) and also Blondie’s (sorry, can’t remember anyone’s names) burgeoning art career. The article stated that Blondie assists a well known artist (name escapes me) and is producing work of her own. Someone was quoted, in reference to Blondie and her work, as saying, “She may look sweet and innocent, but she’s a dark, dark girl.” Color me intrigued.
yeah, we definitely have Jaclyn the Second and another Nicole on our hands.
Hit and run bike accidents scare the bejeezus out of me, especially when no justice is served. I like riding my bike; I don’t want to die doing in. Pout.
Recap coming Sunday, I think. I have a Wine-toberfest to attend tomorrow, suckas!
I think Jasmine(I refuse to pander to her crappy name spelling) is way more talented than Jaclyn though. I loved the painting she did this week, and to be fair, she just did a portrait of a girl who looked a lot like her. Not a portrait of herself. So… Way to branch out. That being said, she’s not actually very likable as a person so far.
Who is Nicole the second? The closest girl I can think of is the one that sliced up the cat…? Or do you mean the girl with the deconstructed painting of wanting to live in a mountain? Or am I totally off base?
Just went and looked at the portfolios on the Bravo site. I really dig Jasmine’s work. Granted, I’m a major fan of pop surrealism, which makes my opinion completely invalid in the art world, but I absolutely love the way she paints people. Also kinda awesome: Dusty and Michelle. The only portfolios that left me scratching my head were Bayete and Young Sun’s. Not so much bad as just nothing that really impressed me. Okay, Bayete’s was actually bad. WTH?
Yeah, Lola is the second coming of Nicole. I like Jazzminnnnn’s stuff, too. And that girl-on-a-spit girl’s stuff. I don’t like Sucklord’s stuff necessarily, but I appreciate the space he’s occupying in the art world.
More to come! I keep having these philosophical battles about the whole thing in my head, and I’m s’posed to be troubleshooting XML! BYE!
I agree that people who give themselves what they hope will be edgy names or spellings of their actual names should not be pandered to. Therefore The Sucklord is now Morgan to me, and I found this quote to prove it:
“The Sucklord — real name: Morgan Phillips — is a 42-year-old artist/huckster in the tradition of Jeff Koons who looks a bit like Jimmy Fallon doing an impersonation of a gelled twit.”
Before I came across that quote, I was gonna ask if anyone else thought he looked like Jimmy Fallon, but now I don’t have to.
Methinks Sucklord wandered off the set of Big Bang Theory.
Bayete sucks. I understand wanting diversity and needing to cast an African American person but couldn’t they at least find one with a modicum of talent? Or is he the anti-Abdi? I think Jerry Saltz is going to go even harder on Bayete than he did Abdi and this time I won’t hate him for it.
I was thinking Jassmynne (each time I’ll spell it differently) is the second coming of the hippy girl from last season who also grew up in a commune. Or a sex cult. I forget. I suspect Young Sun will try to be another Miles but will only succeed in annoying everyone.
Biggest difference to date: No one commented on Young Sun’s butt. Miles’ got plenty of praise.
2nd biggest difference: Jerry Saltz didn’t feel him up while observing his performance art.
Oh my, Sacra . . . I don’t recall Jerry feeling up Miles . . . ahem . .. .
Yay-yay-yay!!! I’m so with you all, and you Sacra, on getting this started again!!! It’s bliss.
Oh Bayette . . . yeah, have to agree, I didn’t get what his portfolio was, wasn’t it like a weird wedding or prom photo. His self portrait was lame too. If you read T-lo, they did a post about the contestants, and supposedly Bayette has been featured all over . . . whodda thunk!
I would say spit pig girl reminds me of Pelegrino’s work. I find Sucky to be more like Miles then Young . . . but what do I know. Being that I play with dolls and did a doll video, I’m thinking I should like SuckLord … we’ll see tho!
@vallegirl I didn’t think the right person went home either. Maybe for that challenge it wasn’t their best work ever but there was somebody else that should’ve gone. I think I know why they did it like that though. I’ll tell when the recap is up.
@sarcasatire OMG! We took 1 look at The Sucklord and yelled SHELDON! and laughed so hard!
@SexyPanda I don’t feel a bit sorry for Leon Lim. Maybe a little bit jel because he’s so talented and super smart and I can’t draw a crooked stick and I sure haven’t seen anything about me in Time Magazine!
Will anybody but me admit to liking any of the so-called bad art?
I’d totally put some of that stuff in my house if it was cheap enough. Big cheesy red and gold Bad Chinese Buffet decor, I’m looking at you because what home can ever have enough?
I’m glad to see this show too and so excited that SexyPanda’s going to write about it!
The only thing that worries me is I wanted it to keep being about unknown artists getting their big chance. This time I can’t help but wonder how bad do they need this show and what about all the 1s nobody ever heard of that could’ve been there.
oops! I meant to say how bad do some of them need it.