PIXEL PANIC: Is Rumpelton Ruining Art?

                                                             Rumpeltonian Cubism

"A term used ‘playfully’ by Ralph Rumpelton, much like how Dada was used ‘nonsensically’ by Duchamp until it wound up in textbooks."

PIXEL PANIC: Is Rumpelton Ruining Art?

Interview with Gordon Weft, by Harlan Dorsey
Canvas Purist Monthly, April 2024

HARLAN DORSEY: Let’s get straight to it. What is Rumpeltonianism?

GORDON WEFT: It’s the artistic equivalent of someone tripping over their own shoelaces and calling it a “statement.” A blurry tantrum in 256 colors.

DORSEY: You’ve called it “defiantly incompetent.” What do you mean by that?

WEFT: I mean it’s not just bad—it’s proudly bad. It’s allergic to refinement. The jagged lines, the broken proportions, the smug anti-craft—all of it screams, “Look what I didn’t bother to fix!”

DORSEY: Some critics say it’s a response to the hyper-polished digital age.

WEFT: That’s like justifying graffiti on your hard drive. This isn’t rebellion, it’s regression. It’s art school dropouts giving up halfway through MSPaint and calling the result post-digital absurdism. Spare me.

DORSEY: But the Smithsonian’s Digital Wing—

WEFT: If the Smithsonian wants to archive pixelated tantrums, that’s their business. But don’t ask me to applaud it. We used to push artistic boundaries with discipline. Rumpelton pushes them with a shaky mouse hand and a smirk.

DORSEY: Do you see any value in it?

WEFT: As an artifact of online detachment? Maybe. As art? Only if your idea of art is what happens when Photoshop crashes and autosave fails.

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