2013 • 42″ x 51″
acrylic, spray paint, fabric on panel

It is often said that people with subversive ideas are more fun than those trying to maintain the status quo. Others, whose meritless influence may be waning, long for yesteryear, bemoaning the decline of morality in America, blinded to all the social injustices and high crime rates of the “good old days.”

This imagined decline in morals often coincides with the decline in power and influence of those on top of the plutocracy. “Decline of the Bourgeois” satirizes the notion that subversive cultural influences can lead us on a path of destruction when in reality it seems the most controversial subject matter keeps the zeitgeist trending toward greater empathy and acceptance.

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Posted by Dick Van der Wurst

Having descended down into South Texas through the Hill Country one day long ago, Dick never claimed to be Texan, but his German heritage and love for tacos is something he shares with the inhabitants of the region. Having earned an MFA from Miami University, OH, he spent the worst years of his life up north, maturing artistically and refining an Iconoclasmatic Pop Art™ style shaped by his experiences as a recovering Catholic, cancer survivor and optimistic existentialist. He lives and works in his humble turquoise studio-home (Dick’s WurstHaus Art Shanty) near downtown San Antonio.