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> it's the vicarious and voyeuristic aspect that his fortune is built off, the art is incidental Seems like Rodriguez is more of a performance artist.

• esperent 3y ago
  Many extremely famous artists are also performance artists. Dali, Picasso, Warhol, Hirst, Banksy. All of them made some kind of performance to go alongside the art, whether it's crazy personality, or controversy, or nobody knowing what you look like, it's a performance. You need to get people talking about you and the art will only get you so far, in many cases. Great as, for example, Dali's art is, would he have been as famous without the mustache and pet anteater? Of course there's plenty of counterexamples where the art alone was enough for fame. Esther and Van Gogh come to mind.
  • gilleain 3y ago
    Right, but Picasso's performance was of _himself_ alongside his art. This guy is making a performance out of the act of making the art, and then people's real-time reaction to that art.
• gizajob 3y ago
  Yet his performance is identical to that performed by countless other people on TikTok. Anti-performance and anti-art for the age of the anti-social.