The Surrealism World

摘要

Long before the American idol-ization of every art form on the planet, the great humorist S. J. Perelman imagined a gnarly New York painter being asked by a vulgarian Hollywood movie producer: what exactly do you artists do in the studio when you get an idea? "I usually smite my forehead," the painter replies sarcastically, "and shout 'Eureka!'" No, he doesn't, and neither does any artist. That's precisely the problem with Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, the reality show produced by Sarah Jessica Parker and premier-ing June 9 on Bravo. In order to morph the slow, lonely business of creating art into something watchable for the Face-book set, Work of Art has to sex it up into something more resembling The Ultimate Fighter than Cezanne methodically patching together a landscape.