The Grand Practical Joke of Pavel Jerdanowitch
This shit is funny as all get up. Time for me to produce some Disumbrationist art.
“Annoyed at the cold reception his wife’s realistic still lifes had received from an art exhibition jury, Jordan-Smith sought revenge by styling himself as “Pavel Jerdanowitch”, a variation on his own name, and entering a blurry, badly painted picture of a Pacific islander woman brandishing a banana skin, under the title “Exaltation”. 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 chains 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.”
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