…just another stupid acronym, this time standing for Another Fucking Snob.
This guy Nicky Haslam claims to be an arbiter of “class” or more often of what constitutes “low class” or “common.” Like most of his ilk, he’s simply a waspish little poseur, this time with his list of things or people he finds “common”:
- Selling art
- Artsplaining
- Sistine Chapel
- Christie’s
- Downlit art
- ‘Art is subjective’
- Silent auctions
- Children by Renoir
- Symbolism
- Hanging photographs
- ‘Can’t see what you see in that’
- David Hockney (can’t paint for toffee but can draw like a god)
- Francis Bacon is the campest artist since Gustav Moreau
- Waldemar Januszczak’s real name
- Giverny
- The Mona Lisa
- Oil paintings of big game
- Oversized garden art
- Studio visits
- Philistine
- Genres
- Frieze
- White
- Trauma
- Interpreted
- Banksy
- Validation
- ‘Have you got anything to fit this space?’
- Meaningful
- ‘I’m afraid it’s reserved’
- Kate Moss
- Tapestry wall hangings
- Have you noticed there is no ‘school’ of Lucien Freud
- Saint Laurent
- Buying art at weekends
- The Biennale
Most of it flies right over my head (which would probably make him add me to his list), but whatever. (And I’m sorry, but art is very much subjective, or else there’d only be Thomas Kincaid’s paintings hanging on every wall and in every gallery.)
All that said, however, there is nothing that shouts “common” to me more than this choice of wardrobe:
…which happens to be what this little tit was wearing when he oh-so proudly displayed his latest tea towel.