re. It looks like a 5 yr old has done it ...
"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disumbrationism
http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2014/03/06/the-man-who-hated-futurism/
The front page headline of the August 14, 1927, Los Angeles Times read INTERNATIONAL ART HOAX BARED BY LOS ANGELES AUTHOR.
The story revealed that the modern art movement known as โDisumbrationismโ was a complete fraudโa โremarkable revenge put over on Futurist critics.โ (Above, one of that faux-movementโs masterworks: Pavel Jerdanowitchโs Illumination, c. 1926.)
Paul Jordan Smith was an L.A. Times journalist and author. His wife, Sarah Bixby Smith, was an amateur painter whose work was rejected for a exhibition at Claremont.
The judges faulted it for being too conservative.
This provoked her husband, who had no artistic training, to paint โa weird futuristic-**bleep**-impressionist-**bleep**-kindergarten canvas in riotous color.โ
Inspired by Gauguin, the painting presents a Polynesian woman holding a banana, โprimitiveโ in drawing and uncomfortable stereotype.
The Times account says that Smith initially used the painting as a firescreen.
Then he decided to enter the painting in an exhibition of โindependentsโ being held at New Yorkโs Waldorf-Astoria hotel in spring 1925. He submitted under the name โPavel Jerdanowitchโ and titled the painting โExaltation.โ
As this was a selling exhibition, he put โan impossible price on itโฆ he did not want to trap any innocent buyer.โ
He made a suitably dark and brooding photograph of himself as Jerdanowitch, and submitted the work to the same group of critics as representative of the new school, "Disumbrationism".
He explained "Exaltation" as a symbol of "breaking the shackles of womanhood.
To his dismay, if not to his surprise, the Disumbrationist daub won praise from the critics who had belittled his wife's realistic painting.
More Disumbrationist paintings followed: a composition of zig-zag lines and eyeballs he called "Illumination"; a garish picture of a black woman doing laundry which he called "Aspiration", and which a critic praised as "a delightful jumble of Gauguin, Pop Hart and Negro minstrelsy, with a lot of Jerdanowitch individuality"; "Gination", an ugly, lopsided portrait; and a painting named "Adoration", of a woman worshipping an immense phallic idol, which was exhibited in 1927.
The same year, Jordan-Smith confessed to the Los Angeles Times that the Disumbrationist paintings were meant as a spoof.
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