Let's smile politely and pretend another Adam Goodes award makes sense

[Lethality]

I don't know anything about art, but I am extremely racist. So this Archibald to me looks like yet another political pick for Goodes. Or maybe just regular AFL favouritism such as he would get on brownlow night.

In the year of George Floyd and BLM protests I guess this was always going to win.

I'm going to pretend it's good.

 

[Greenery]

That will really show those racist bogeymen.

Seriously though that is a s**t quality painting.

 

[HAPPY BUDDHA]

Yeah that is a pretty crap painting no matter who the artist is.
Primary school level skills & waaaaay too political like we need anymore of that stuff atm.

 

[ChappyUK]

I don't know anything about art, but I am extremely racist. So this Archibald to me looks like yet another political pick for Goodes. Or maybe just regular AFL favouritism such as he would get on brownlow night.

In the year of George Floyd and BLM protests I guess this was always going to win.

I'm going to pretend it's good.

Hey FU. My 10yo painted that.

 

[Eagle Wrath]

I just hope the AFL does the right thing and purchases it for a few million and hangs it up at headquarters.

 

[HAPPY BUDDHA]

I just hope the AFL does the right thing and purchases it for a few million and hangs it up at headquarters.

They will probably want us to pay for it too.

 

[Genghis Tron]

As someone who has worked hard to have pieces displayed in exhibitions this makes me sad.

No problem with the message but there are loads of people related to the issue that would have made a better subject for a painting.

 

[RolandF1]

'Friendship ended with MUDASIR
NOW SALMAN is my best friend'

 

[Laphroaig]

I just hope the AFL does the right thing and purchases it for a few million and hangs it up at headquarters.

They SHOULD buy it.

And build a special gallery to display it in, along with that statue of that rooly brave chick who does the hello boys when she roosts a mighty kick 35 meters.

A gallery somewhere in Patagonia.

 

[FISTO]

A Richmond floggo could eat a box of crayola and spew up on a blank canvas and create something less whimsical and more majestic

 

[AtariRose]

 

[Craze]

When you look at the subjects of the Archiwoke Prize finalists for 2020, there is a common thread:
- Prominent left wing LGBTQI 'journalist' and activist for refugees, David Marr
- Prominent left wing actor and hater of all things Conservative, Magda Szubanski
- Current leader of the ALP, Anthony Albanese
- Self portrait by Abdul Abdullah, prominent artist and activist for minorities, with a 'post 9/11 mindset', whatever that means
- Adam Spencer, prominent JJJ presenter, mathematician and climate change activist, spruiker of extra funding for the ABC (which already receives over $1 billion per year of taxpayer dollars to agitate for fringe left wing causes)
- Barry Jones, activist, progressive, President of the ALP, pretentious academic
- Jacinda Ardern, NZ Prime Minister, poster child of the Left, currently has her citizens in a hard lockdown even though they have 0 cases of Coronavirus
- Annabel Crabb, ABC TV presenter
- And, of course, Adam Goodes

It begs the question. Why are artists in this country so out of touch with mainstream Australian political values? It seems that we, the general public, just keep getting it wrong by voting in Conservative governments.

And finally, I put my hand up and admit I know absolutely nothing about art. But could someone please explain how a finger painting of Adam Goodes was deemed a superior work of art, compared to this self-portrait. I don't know you, Tsering Hannaford, but if the world wasn't going so batshit crazy with the wokeness, you're the rightful Archibold Prize winner of 2020.




I'm genuinely interested in any arguments out there as to how the Goodes painting is technically better than this incredible piece of art.

 

[Libido_of_Clive]

When you look at the subjects of the Archiwoke Prize finalists for 2020, there is a common thread:
- Prominent left wing LGBTQI 'journalist' and activist for refugees, David Marr
- Prominent left wing actor and hater of all things Conservative, Magda Szubanski
- Current leader of the ALP, Anthony Albanese
- Self portrait by Abdul Abdullah, prominent artist and activist for minorities, with a 'post 9/11 mindset', whatever that means
- Adam Spencer, prominent JJJ presenter, mathematician and climate change activist, spruiker of extra funding for the ABC (which already receives over $1 billion per year of taxpayer dollars to agitate for fringe left wing causes)
- Barry Jones, activist, progressive, President of the ALP, pretentious academic
- Jacinda Ardern, NZ Prime Minister, poster child of the Left, currently has her citizens in a hard lockdown even though they have 0 cases of Coronavirus
- Annabel Crabb, ABC TV presenter
- And, of course, Adam Goodes

It begs the question. Why are artists in this country so out of touch with mainstream Australian political values? It seems that we, the general public, just keep getting it wrong by voting in Conservative governments.

And finally, I put my hand up and admit I know absolutely nothing about art. But could someone please explain how a finger painting of Adam Goodes was deemed a superior work of art, compared to this self-portrait. I don't know you, Tsering Hannaford, but if the world wasn't going so batshit crazy with the wokeness, you're the rightful Archibold Prize winner of 2020.


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I'm genuinely interested in any arguments out there as to how the Goodes painting is technically better than this incredible piece of art.

Triggered?

 

[frggr]

When you look at the subjects of the Archiwoke Prize finalists for 2020, there is a common thread:
- Prominent left wing LGBTQI 'journalist' and activist for refugees, David Marr
- Prominent left wing actor and hater of all things Conservative, Magda Szubanski
- Current leader of the ALP, Anthony Albanese
- Self portrait by Abdul Abdullah, prominent artist and activist for minorities, with a 'post 9/11 mindset', whatever that means
- Adam Spencer, prominent JJJ presenter, mathematician and climate change activist, spruiker of extra funding for the ABC (which already receives over $1 billion per year of taxpayer dollars to agitate for fringe left wing causes)
- Barry Jones, activist, progressive, President of the ALP, pretentious academic
- Jacinda Ardern, NZ Prime Minister, poster child of the Left, currently has her citizens in a hard lockdown even though they have 0 cases of Coronavirus
- Annabel Crabb, ABC TV presenter
- And, of course, Adam Goodes

It begs the question. Why are artists in this country so out of touch with mainstream Australian political values? It seems that we, the general public, just keep getting it wrong by voting in Conservative governments.

And finally, I put my hand up and admit I know absolutely nothing about art. But could someone please explain how a finger painting of Adam Goodes was deemed a superior work of art, compared to this self-portrait. I don't know you, Tsering Hannaford, but if the world wasn't going so batshit crazy with the wokeness, you're the rightful Archibold Prize winner of 2020.


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Nice melt

 

[frggr]

Also, imagine a Hawthorn supporter making a post with racist undertones like this

 

[Mofra]

Bloodret loves a good self-portrait.

"He painted himself"

 

[Dinsdale]

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I'm genuinely interested in any arguments out there as to how the Goodes painting is technically better than this incredible piece of art.

pointy elbows

 

[Greenery]

When you look at the subjects of the Archiwoke Prize finalists for 2020, there is a common thread:
- Prominent left wing LGBTQI 'journalist' and activist for refugees, David Marr
- Prominent left wing actor and hater of all things Conservative, Magda Szubanski
- Current leader of the ALP, Anthony Albanese
- Self portrait by Abdul Abdullah, prominent artist and activist for minorities, with a 'post 9/11 mindset', whatever that means
- Adam Spencer, prominent JJJ presenter, mathematician and climate change activist, spruiker of extra funding for the ABC (which already receives over $1 billion per year of taxpayer dollars to agitate for fringe left wing causes)
- Barry Jones, activist, progressive, President of the ALP, pretentious academic
- Jacinda Ardern, NZ Prime Minister, poster child of the Left, currently has her citizens in a hard lockdown even though they have 0 cases of Coronavirus
- Annabel Crabb, ABC TV presenter
- And, of course, Adam Goodes

It begs the question. Why are artists in this country so out of touch with mainstream Australian political values? It seems that we, the general public, just keep getting it wrong by voting in Conservative governments.

And finally, I put my hand up and admit I know absolutely nothing about art. But could someone please explain how a finger painting of Adam Goodes was deemed a superior work of art, compared to this self-portrait. I don't know you, Tsering Hannaford, but if the world wasn't going so batshit crazy with the wokeness, you're the rightful Archibold Prize winner of 2020.


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I'm genuinely interested in any arguments out there as to how the Goodes painting is technically better than this incredible piece of art.

Lack of trans representation is worrying and potentially problematic

 

[Tyler Durden007]

When you look at the subjects of the Archiwoke Prize finalists for 2020, there is a common thread:
- Prominent left wing LGBTQI 'journalist' and activist for refugees, David Marr
- Prominent left wing actor and hater of all things Conservative, Magda Szubanski
- Current leader of the ALP, Anthony Albanese
- Self portrait by Abdul Abdullah, prominent artist and activist for minorities, with a 'post 9/11 mindset', whatever that means
- Adam Spencer, prominent JJJ presenter, mathematician and climate change activist, spruiker of extra funding for the ABC (which already receives over $1 billion per year of taxpayer dollars to agitate for fringe left wing causes)
- Barry Jones, activist, progressive, President of the ALP, pretentious academic
- Jacinda Ardern, NZ Prime Minister, poster child of the Left, currently has her citizens in a hard lockdown even though they have 0 cases of Coronavirus
- Annabel Crabb, ABC TV presenter
- And, of course, Adam Goodes

It begs the question. Why are artists in this country so out of touch with mainstream Australian political values? It seems that we, the general public, just keep getting it wrong by voting in Conservative governments.

And finally, I put my hand up and admit I know absolutely nothing about art. But could someone please explain how a finger painting of Adam Goodes was deemed a superior work of art, compared to this self-portrait. I don't know you, Tsering Hannaford, but if the world wasn't going so batshit crazy with the wokeness, you're the rightful Archibold Prize winner of 2020.


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I'm genuinely interested in any arguments out there as to how the Goodes painting is technically better than this incredible piece of art.

You forgot the portraits of white man Bruce Pascoe who masquerades as an aboriginal (case of "black facing"?) who wrote the fictional Dark Emu. The portrait of him was fully "blacked him up". Just a disgrace.

 

[Plugger35]

The one on the right is a better painting.

 

[A Cut Above]

The art world is extremely cliquey and basically amounts to who you know not what you know. Couple that with people falling over themselves nowadays to prove how non-racist, non-sexist etc. they are and the result is hollow gestures like this one.

It was abundantly obvious this was coming when The Age ran a story on this year's Archibald entries a few weeks back before the winner was announced and almost every single entry they mentioned was by an Aboriginal artist. Given no Aboriginal has ever won the award before, either they've suddenly and dramatically become far and away the best painters in the country or its a clear cut case of reverse-racism. Which is basically racism with a "positive" spin, but still actual racism - you know, the kind of thing people like me have been told their entire lives is bad.

Its all a joke, being played on future generations who'll inherit a culture millions of times shittier than the one I grew up in. Blame ******* Baby Boomers.

 

[DanWA]

Imagine winning a prize for painting a flog like that

 

[augie]

Wait till next year when the AFL goes back to back Archibalds with Beamers finger painting of Sidey and his credit card.

 

[Mr Blicavs]

Hey FU. My 10yo painted that.

Your ten year old needs to be held back a year if true

 

[PT Bar None]

Eh, it's a better art than I could do