This reading was pretty enjoyable, I think Dave is a pretty opinionated guy. I feel like in this reading he wanted to express his frustration with the big corporate way art can be but I think his lens is somewhat narrow. He seems like a smart guy but life got him down and he wishes everything was a car. (but not a GM car, no too corporate) I thought his analogy about painting jesus in thin layers of paint and painting cars is kind of silly. Yes I can see the similarities but cars are not Jesus.
Overall I get what he is trying to say, however his cynical attitude and sweeping judgments on the nature of the art world put me off. His perspective on the issue is very different from mine of course because I'm not an old cranky man. I don't cast a blind eye to the nature of consumerism that exists in the "art world" but I think that the artists themselves that participate in it approach it in a more genuine and thoughtful way.
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