Title the Art of paint in Hand: An obscure artist was discovered, and quickly shelved.
Dymo® Rhino and LabelWriter® Make evidence of your Weakness, strike meek and be destroyed by the hidden Horse, such a building that made Walls that Doors Opened, look to the Hinge and the Stores are the Wheat that bundle. These days most people in the established art world see art through the lens of politics, social issues, obtuse philosophy, rarefied art theory, and radical ideology. It took outsider, underground types of artists, cartoonists, and collectors — the variety the contemporary art cognoscenti turn their noses up at — to see the obvious with their own eyes. A visually literate person need only spend a minute with the drawing above to sense that Szukalski possessed extraordinary skill. And we all know skill is poo-pooed in favor of the grandiose idea: the IDEA of putting a shark in a tank; taping a banana to a wall; exhibiting one’s unkempt bed; canning one’s shit; and going all the way back to exhibiting a urinal tilted on its side. And this kind of drawing? Well, it’s con...
