Aesthetic Merit x
We Sit Staring Amidst our Gold (2013) by Jeremy Deller
The painting represents William Morris, renown Victorian thinker and Designer returning from the dead to destroy Roman Abramovich’s yacht.
Laters, Kate x
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Maison Bentley Style 
Food for thought 🙂
I like the idea that not everything in the future is an improvement. A reaction against the modern industrial revolution? The yacht wasn’t beautiful and useful?…a matter of taste. Or the lack of connection between taking the time to make something with your hands? Xxx
Wow, that’s powerful (both this art and your analysis on the previous comment …). XXXX
I suppose this picture is the equivalent of WM turning in his grave! xxx
Great post !
Maybe it’s about how we should think more about how we spend the gold we make..in the past it was a sign of great wealth to invest in the Arts..now we have the rise of celebrity investing in..cars? xxx
I think you hit it right on the head there, Kate. I thought it was a comment on the wastefulness of the new celebrity. They seem so callous. So wasteful. There are charities and groups who need funding desperately. Take some of the millions you spent on the yacht and give it to a relief fund for something. ANYTHING. For no reason.
The sign of wealth used to be funding The Arts. Not wasting money, stockpiling houses and cars.
Objection to the collecting of shiny baubles? Maybe the title should have been ‘Aesthetic Value’ rather than ‘Aesthetic Merit’?…xxxxx