Painting is over. You might as well finish it off. Détourn. Long live painting.
Asger Jorn, Modifications
In a classless society there will no longer be “painters,” but only situationists who, among other things, sometimes paint.
Guy Debord, Rapport sur la construction des situations
All abstract painting since
Malevich has amounted to breaking down open doors.
Internationale lettriste
No painting is defensible from a Situationist point of view.
Internationale situationniste #2
Although certain artistic activities might be more notoriously mortally
wounded than others, we believe that the hanging of a painting in a gallery is a
relic as inevitably uninteresting as a book of poetry.