"I want to be far from polite." | Artist Calvin Marcus | Louisiana Channel

[@matureyoungman]

How do I fix my algorithm so it's all this sort of stuff. Really inspiring to know that there are people like this.

[@thelouisianachannel]

Feel free to subscribe to our channel for more videos like this 🤩

[@alex_jermaine]

The secret is to watch a lot of these artist profile videos and subscribe to the channels. My KZbin is entirely an archive of these videos lol

[@matureyoungman]

@@alex_jermaine that’s a good idea. It just takes so long to go through subscriptions and unsubscribe to all the trash channels

[@augopen]

Right?!

[@jamiecaughley6457]

@@matureyoungman Hey also if you click the three dots next to trash videos on your homepage and click "not interested" it helps train the algorithm too. One other strategy is to use multiple accounts so you have different algorithms. I have one account which I only watch videos like this on, and one where I indulge in trashy videos.

[@1day2dayme]

My question is: how did he afford a house and a large studio next door when he first moved to LA? Was he already a well-established artist then? This world doesn’t lack talented people. Just many talents don’t have the capital (money and connections) to be in the right place to be seen.

[@AMVeil]

i love how he looks like he's almost on the verge of laughing.

[@milostraghalis]

it's incredibly charming

[@AMVeil]

@@milostraghalis I know … crush energy

[@feather4922]

This guy is great!...laughing!!...he is opening my mind!!

[@dimitrilikissas]

Great to watch another artist and his mindset.

[@chari---zard]

omg, thank you for appearing in my recommendations! like fresh air, actual content ❤️❤️

[@anjieskaya]

WoW! How Awesome! all of it, including dream studio:-) I love it and enjoyed it also. tu:-)

[@katexfob]

loved it! and his dog is so cute :)

[@FeraligatrCollectorTCG]

Amazing work and mindset

[@olafsager6056]

An artist is anyone who is looking for art. And a museum viewer is someone who is looking to something of somebody who declares that he has seen art. Louisiana can't look to art either, they are looking to someone who has been seen in the contest of art.

[@taylorj6177]

For some reason the word "pickle" comes to mind when I look at that picture

[@andrewwilson4733]

hes the king of painting grass blades

[@found_documents]

Great Artist

[@Jryonke]

This guy has a very nice voice to listen to

[@dreamsies]

I really enjoyed this.

[@quinhocastro]

Phantastic

[@andrewwilson4733]

big big fan! I thought this doc would be a bit funnier to match the absurdity of the work but still great

[@ricromrec]

Well spoken

[@BobPagani]

I like the chicken/face work. I don't care if it has "deep meaning" or no meaning at all. It's just very odd and imaginative and that's enough for me.

[@nensi1972]

...works that reminds me of Serbian/Montenegro artist /painter Tadija Janičić ... 🙏🌹❤️

[@robertabrahamsen9076]

I sniff a fat government grant.

[@BobPagani]

Odd fetish but, hey, no kink shaming here.

[@jasmines2773]

What song is playing at the end?

[@MMZS528]

im glad his work is more interesting than the way he talks

[@maggierobertson4518]

It’s so distracting to interview him in front of that disturbing painting.

[@reubenyebra4002]

He's on the right path

[@KpxUrz5745]

Nice enough guy, but I seriously don't think Art is his field. I won't elaborate because it is clear that no constructive criticism will help.

[@rcronico1]

i'm curious about this comment. I appreciate your take. Can you expand though? What makes him fall short in your eyes?

[@KpxUrz5745]

@@rcronico1 As I stated, it's of little value to elaborate. Consider a person who imagines himself to be an artist, but who cannot draw, paint, or sculpt. And yet, who goes on to produce self-featuring videos to promote himself as an artist. Based on many decades of experience in this field of fine arts, I simply see nothing at all of interest or value here. Could the problem be as basic as already having too much money, therefore no need to develop any real skills? That's all I wish to say about this, too much time already spent on nothing.

[@KpxUrz5745]

@@JorgenVonStrngle Would you be happier if I had said "appears in self-featuring videos" instead of "produce self-featuring videos"? That is pointless semantics. In any case, he agrees to be the featured artist here, and certainly relishes the promotion of himself and his so-called art. Nothing I said makes any sense? So if I said he does not have the skills to draw or paint, obviously you think he DOES have those skills! Just take a look! Without listing my countless credentials in this field, I am quite certain that what I said is fully accurate. All we need is eyes and a brain to know that.

[@KpxUrz5745]

@@JorgenVonStrngle Rage?? Haha, you crack me up. Nothing I said rises to the level of “rage”. And, yes, my pointing out this guy's serious lack of artistic talents is not just intended about him. It is also a comment on the larger sad state of the present Art World, where “everyone gets a trophy”, and where people concoct all sorts of justifications and word-play to pretend that non-artists are actually artists. Why do they do this? Certainly it is to make more room for incompetence since competent artists are too rare to support the larger marketplace they would like. As for this being a “long passed debate”, well, that is patently untrue and amounts to more proof of my point. Untalented people are still, in the end, untalented, and in no way deserve our time or notice. I have works in museums and many important collections, won lots of top awards, and generally have an extensive background and education in actual fine art, so I don't see your justification for assuming otherwise. I suggest we drop this little storm in a teacup, because neither of us is making any headway. I was just fine after making my first innocuous comment, and was willing to leave it at that, but as usual, we often have to hear objections from the Peanut Gallery.

[@mariussrr4890]

@KpxUrz5745 Where is your trophy?

[@Earthdepartment]

I like his work

[@charlesbeloved7951]

Why? They look like children’s paintings

[@grahammcfelin340]

Dear calvin,your green screens blew my mind,. ... "Sublime"... wish i thought of that .Bulbous pallid flesh, distended proboscis on a tufted verge, against milk white zero infinite void . Wish i thought of that, Thanks for a butchers. Arts a trip . Bon voyage

[@alpineflauge909]

very nice

[@ashleybrock5228]

💚

[@dynasoar5]

he looks so much older than he is

[@hd-xc2lz]

Meh. More doodle and cartoon fragments blown up to fit ten foot canvasses. This is the academic painting of our day, this is an artist sadly unwilling to challenge the status quo and think for himself.

[@glenncambray626]

Agree. How is it that people think this stuff is interesting?

[@augopen]

Almost disgusting... adding intensity... by the way that pink protruding thing looks like it really hurts a lot

[@lunellkruger2981]

I think life amuses you

[@ctrla31]

🥰🍂

[@antonionegrini5252]

yeah

[@huneremin6333]

Childish it is!

[@TenTenJ]

Just a pretentious guy obsessed with phallic images and events.

[@ZetaReticulian]

His “art” skills, technically speaking are a mature as fuck.

[@biocykle]

A bit like your writing skills. What was that again?

[@danthomas6587]

It's a mushroom. Upside down.

[@markfeiritear]

youre a journalist. point your art at revolution. i respect your work youre very direct. youre not your parents though.

[@charlesbeloved7951]

A white artist gentrifying a Latino neighborhood because he couldn’t quite afford Beverly Hills… 🤢

[@hd-xc2lz]

Latinos own the neighborhood? Should whites also not shop in this Latino neighborhood's stores? Should whites not purchase products produced in this Latino neighborhood?

[@KamiBlue]

Far from good...is that impolite?

[@RR-ob8ze]

It’s so bad. Nice home/studio though

[@biocykle]

What's "bad"?

[@RR-ob8ze]

@@biocykle just his skill. I think it’s funny, but it’s generally pretty bad even as sartorial work goes. Jamien Juliano Villano or Paul McCarthy are better comical artists. Hell, even Robert Nava produces better “shitty” art. This guy just has money & the right connections, not much substance but hey.. there’s a market & place for that too! All love here, but we are all entitled to an opinion/critique.

[@haret0n]

some painters, like francis bacon or david hockney are great to listen to because they have original minds and fabulous chat. some painters just aren't. this guy is beyond boring. cute looking though.

[@biocykle]

Well hey, it's not entertainment. It's a visual artist talking about his work. Which is very often not an easy feat

[@Woozah]

Every artist is a person first of all. You can't reduce complex personalities down to media appearences. for fucks sake why am i even trying to talk to these people. go watch reruns of celebrity trials

[@jaimet1268]

Boring

[@quocduyphilip3617]

Terrible minds. Why ??!!

[@DMTRVK]

When there's lack of real ideas, some west european art tend to search itself in good old freudism... boring/empty as it is. Meanwhile , there are lots of great artists making real stuff, but LC chooses what goes in the stream of rubbish art.

[@rcronico1]

i appreciate this kind of comment, because it's more of a conversation that the million other "wow, amazing art" comment on the LC videos. Can you expand on it more? Is this guy considered Western Euro, and if so, expand on the freudism angle

[@Woozah]

he's scared of style

[@charmagnevasquez3396]

He’s not constrained by others’ opinions, or society’s decision that we artists are supposed to have “a style”. Style is a subjective paradigm.

[@adeaddog42069]

Sadly, All the best art has been made already.

[@mikoe5851]

You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

[@Isaac-wu4sj]

Such a funny thought to have. I’d love to hear you elaborate

[@adeaddog42069]

@@mikoe5851 You can enjoy the painting of the cats asshole if you want

[@adeaddog42069]

@@Isaac-wu4sj no

[@KirillaMihai]

@@Isaac-wu4sj as ignorant and simple minded as Mario Dante’s comment sounds, based on what is popular today, ( this guys art) in comparison of what was done in the past, he is not wrong. referring to, quality, subject mater, technique, a lot of aspects and attributes deteriorated within today’s standards. In my opinion this artist ads nothing towards art development, he is a person with observational skills but not to the extension as being a note worthy artist. It saddens me to see “ meh “ artists put in privileged positions promoting mediocrity, but hurt people whining over it without any valid arguments and other people praising this type of naive painting considering it something worthy of attention.

[@dparqui]

That Is too 60' imagen nothing new AND he doesn"t nothing to say. Is too simple when you know historia of art.

[@joedavis4150]

... Clearly fellatio...... me, I want to be far from police....... if you want some nice art, look up Ojibwe animal paintings.