ANTINATURAL ART

 

                                Left-wing antinatural art will necessarily bring

                                The lowest to the fore at the expense of the highest,

                                Form at the expense of content, thereby creating

                                A non-representational art such as one finds

                                In both radical Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism.

                                It is as though the paint has been freed from

                                The harness of content and left to itself in

                                An anarchic mess of formless equalitarianism,

                                The painterly equivalent to Marxist purism,

                                A sort of petty-bourgeois participatory democracy

                                Without representatives and therefore

                                Non-representational, the degeneration of art

                                From the liberal representational level to

                                The radical democratic level of a painterly materialism.

                                However, when such formlessness is conceived

                                In the medium of light art, one can speak of

                                A Marxist-Leninist equivalent, since

                                A supernatural element, namely electric light,

                                Would seem to have been brought to bear

                                On the democratic formlessness of

                                The non-representational appearance.