Principles of the Expensivist Movement

This is to announce the start of the Expensivist Movement in art.

Its principles are as follows:

1. Some aspect of each work should relate to being expensive.

Either the materials should be expensive,

or the subject should be something expensive,

or the work should only be sold to customers who only buy expensive things,

or some expensive interpretation by the artist should relate to the work.

2. When not working, all male members of the movement should dress like Hong Kong pimps. This means open collared casual shirts of silk or nylon with garish patterns basically in black and white resembling exploding amoeba.

Under no circumstances should these shirts be confused with Hawaiian shirts. Wearing shirts with parrots or tropical plants will be cause for immediate expulsion from the movement.

Dilettante, acting secretary of the Expensivist Movement

You quit too soon.

3. Female 'members' must dress from the bottom up in stilletto heels, mesh hose, genuine Jockey brand men's briefs, with fire-engine red suspenders strategically spaced, hair properly punked/spiked. Oh yeah, and smelling of Old Spice cologne.

AGREED! AGREED! This new movement will be a great success

This clause means, if the painter does not want to use any of the above criteria of expensiveness, he can invent his own. For