Why would they propagandize such blasphemous balderdash?" Not one to buy into what he perceives as art school brainwashing, he forged his own path: "I have a tendency to switch mediums, genres, styles, and concepts whenever I get inspired and have perfected the art of giving zero fucks most of all," he jokingly adds.
Lili Bernard - While art schools are brainwashing students to focus on one or two simplified formal elements and a clever concept as packaging, Lili Bernard stands as the complete opposite of everything fashionable in the jaded art world, composing energetic expressionistic pictures of heroic Orishas, saints, slaves and even politicians with a dramatic, revived palette.
Norman Rockwell's misty-eyed and saccharine wartime posters; histrionic and bombastic images of Benito Mussolini; a chilling portrait of Hitler encouraging the cult of the Führer: all these examples have a mindless quality in which art is subordinate to brainwashing.
Cinema audiences have recently experienced Joaquin Phoenix's hip-hop career in I'm Still Here, and the startling pop art works of "Mr Brainwash" in Banksy's tongue-in-cheek film Exit Through the Gift Shop, so can be forgiven for scepticism.
LA Hot Spot Bootsy Bellows decided to bring their game to Shore Club in Miami December 5-7 with a pop up show featuring art installations by Mr. Brainwash & Louis Carreon.
Does it matter if Mr. Guetta, who adopted the perhaps instructive name of Mr. Brainwash (or MBW), is another art prank from Banksy?
Even though Mr Brainwash is widely derided by art experts as a pretty terrible artist.
Have I been brainwashed into overestimating the power of an art museum to be a saviour?The cure for these insecurities came in a meeting with Stephen Sheppard, a professor of urban developmental economics.
Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo (left) Joe Heaps Nelson (third from right) Mr. Brainwash (second from right) and Noah Becker (right) during Art Basel Miami Beach week.
Were you to pick one graffiti artist to work with, Brainwash is hardly surprising – Mr Brainwash (real name, Thierry Guetta) became the poster boy for the commercialisation of art after landing a bizarre gig as Banksy's guide, the story of which became the 2010 film.
