Artists Arise! Our Time Is Now: Part II, A True Portrait of the Artist

Gordy Grundy
4 min readJun 29, 2020

As discussed in Part One “We Need a New Set of Celebrities”, we have overestimated our celebrity culture. In our eagerness for a little bit of glitz, glam and fantasy in our humdrum, everyday, paycheck to paycheck, hand to mouth lives, we have blindly given our entertainment elite too much credit and certainly too much of ourselves. The virus lockdown has revealed the ugly truth: Not only are our idols false, they are quite dull and rather stupid. Except for Naomi Campbell.

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Gordy Grundy

Gordy Grundy is an American artist and arts writer. He has been influenced by sunny flights of SoCal fancy, the bold stroke and the grand gesture.