Some Populistic Statements from Fred Ross. Beware!!

"I am committed to a return to standards of excellence in the visual arts, and to exposing the destructive hoax of modernism which has taken control of our culture’s museums, institutions of higher learning, and journalistic criticism. I want to offer opposing views and make it clear that modern art is a dead end. If everything is art than nothing is art. Their work amounts to art about art, whereas all of the great art from history has been art about life”.

“Let me state in the strongest possible terms that the art history textbooks, since the middle of the century, have been filled with nothing but distortions, half-truths and out-and-out lies in their description of this era. (The 19th Century) They have failed in their responsibility as historians to report the truth of what occurred as objectively as possible. These texts amount to no less than propaganda brochures for modern art.”

“It was the artist’s goal to paint humanity both realistically and as beautifully as possible, encouraging all to strive for such ideals. Implicit is the moral imperative that all people are worthy of love and respect. So not only was it untrue that William Bouguereau , Burne-Jones, Alma-Tadema…was irrelevant, the exact opposite was the case. Bouguereau and the other academic artists were the avant-garde of the changes that were occurring in Western civilization, asserting that each individual was unique and valuable. Only a society such as ours could generate people who would even be permitted to dribble paint on a canvas and call it a work of art. We must realize that modern art could never have existed save on the back of the humanist art that preceded it.”

Fred Ross