Fine Art & Bupkas

Fine Art & Bupkas*

FINE / NON FINE / UNFINE
ART
REFINED ART
FOUND ART
FOOLISH ART
MADE BY SOMETIMES
GIDDY
OVERBEARING
BEARS WHO THINK THEY ARE ARTISTS

( all artists need
finger thumb opposition
which bears have
to enable them to open garbage cans
and break into houses
for food)

Artists of all kinds will
sometimes do anything
for food.
Even the finest of the fine artists.

Some will place a stick on a wall
or wrap their garbage with string
to please a caustic curator
who is also scrounging for food
and call it art with a capital A

Unfine artists wander around contemporary museums
and realize with despair that they
have not really grasped the
currents of the current art
and they return to their studios
which they cannot actually afford
and wonder
if they are really artists
at all.

They fall
heavily into their beds
and go back to sleep
with stuffed heads
of emerging
submerging
and re emerging art
waking with renewed energy
they paint enlarged
painterly
apples with cheese
and sell it
to a food magazine...

for bupkas.

©Helen Webber/2008


* definition of "bupkas": Yiddish word meaning nothing. literally goat droppings.