Art Appreciation
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Cloud9
, Feb 17 2005 11:44 PM
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#16
Posted 19 February 2005 - 08:11 PM
Cloud, yes, that's the one.
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#17
Posted 19 February 2005 - 08:20 PM
QUOTE(TheCourtJester @ Feb 19 2005, 08:11 PM)
One of my favorites at the Louvre as well (I bought postcards of all my favorites to remind me).
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#19
Posted 22 February 2005 - 10:29 AM
QUOTE(4R71F4C7 @ Feb 21 2005, 10:11 PM)
thats one of banksy's signature stencils. No one can copy it, he has his own style. Why would anyone do a bigger stencil of somthing he already did in hte same city he lives in?
Even the masters are copied... Rembrandt, Picasso, etc. It's a form of flattery....
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#21
Posted 19 March 2005 - 12:34 AM
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#22
Posted 19 March 2005 - 12:44 AM
What's art?
Is a picture of the statue of liberty art?
Is a painting of the statue of liberty art?
How about a stamp with the image of the statue of liberty?
Is a picture of the statue of liberty art?
Is a painting of the statue of liberty art?
How about a stamp with the image of the statue of liberty?
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#23
Posted 19 March 2005 - 12:46 AM
Is this art?
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#24
Posted 19 March 2005 - 12:48 AM
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#25
Posted 19 March 2005 - 12:58 AM
My favorite was a piece done by John Stossel on 20/20.
http://abcnews.go.co...d=563146&page=1
They took childrens art and comingled it with works by the masters and then asked the public, artists, critics and curators.
"OK, I can get that concept. Watching Ed Harris' performance in the film about famous artist Jackson Pollock, I learned that Pollock's creative genius came from his tortured soul. That led to a big breakthrough in modern art. But do the people who pay millions for Pollock's work really see the difference between his dripping colors and a child's painting?
Four of the art works in our test were done by 4-year-olds, and when we showed their artwork on the Web, and showed it to people at the mall, the kids' work ranked ahead of most of the masters.
I assumed real artists wouldn't fall for the trick, so we invited some to take our test. Most of them also put at least some of the kids' work up there with the masters.
One artist, Victor Acevedo, described one of the children's pieces as "a competent execution of abstract expressionism which was first made famous by de Kooning and Jackson Pollock and others. So it's emulating that style and it's a school of art."
When I told him the work was done by a 4-year-old he said, "That's amazing. Give that kid a show."
Actually, it was a collaboration. Maybe they should give Hannah and Haley, the two 4-year-old girls who painted it, a show of their own. More than 1,800 people said their work was great art."
I saw this part on TV. It was hilarious. I enjoy art and have some, but the b.s. that some of these artists spew cracks me up, specially when they're describing a 4yr old's pre-schooler's 'work'.
http://abcnews.go.co...d=563146&page=1
They took childrens art and comingled it with works by the masters and then asked the public, artists, critics and curators.
"OK, I can get that concept. Watching Ed Harris' performance in the film about famous artist Jackson Pollock, I learned that Pollock's creative genius came from his tortured soul. That led to a big breakthrough in modern art. But do the people who pay millions for Pollock's work really see the difference between his dripping colors and a child's painting?
Four of the art works in our test were done by 4-year-olds, and when we showed their artwork on the Web, and showed it to people at the mall, the kids' work ranked ahead of most of the masters.
I assumed real artists wouldn't fall for the trick, so we invited some to take our test. Most of them also put at least some of the kids' work up there with the masters.
One artist, Victor Acevedo, described one of the children's pieces as "a competent execution of abstract expressionism which was first made famous by de Kooning and Jackson Pollock and others. So it's emulating that style and it's a school of art."
When I told him the work was done by a 4-year-old he said, "That's amazing. Give that kid a show."
Actually, it was a collaboration. Maybe they should give Hannah and Haley, the two 4-year-old girls who painted it, a show of their own. More than 1,800 people said their work was great art."
I saw this part on TV. It was hilarious. I enjoy art and have some, but the b.s. that some of these artists spew cracks me up, specially when they're describing a 4yr old's pre-schooler's 'work'.
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#26
Posted 19 March 2005 - 03:24 AM
I actually got all but 1 of those correct on the quiz.
Still, I think a lot of "artists" don't even understand abstract art vs. a 4-yr-olds painting, they just pretend they know something about it to save face. Like the people that stand around a garbage pail in an art museum and guess at what the "artist" was "feeling" ... never realizing it is, in fact, just a freakin garbage pail.
Still, I think a lot of "artists" don't even understand abstract art vs. a 4-yr-olds painting, they just pretend they know something about it to save face. Like the people that stand around a garbage pail in an art museum and guess at what the "artist" was "feeling" ... never realizing it is, in fact, just a freakin garbage pail.
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#27
Posted 19 March 2005 - 11:45 AM
QUOTE(TheCourtJester @ Mar 19 2005, 03:24 AM)
I actually got all but 1 of those correct on the quiz.
Still, I think a lot of "artists" don't even understand abstract art vs. a 4-yr-olds painting, they just pretend they know something about it to save face. Like the people that stand around a garbage pail in an art museum and guess at what the "artist" was "feeling" ... never realizing it is, in fact, just a freakin garbage pail.
Still, I think a lot of "artists" don't even understand abstract art vs. a 4-yr-olds painting, they just pretend they know something about it to save face. Like the people that stand around a garbage pail in an art museum and guess at what the "artist" was "feeling" ... never realizing it is, in fact, just a freakin garbage pail.
I'm with you CJ. The closer a work of 'art' comes to my ability to recreate, the less I think of it as art. A garbage pail is a good example, so is a blank canvas or a white canvas with a black dot etc. Some of these so called artists probably can't even draw a stick figure.
Apparently, there is an obligatory air of pretension that people feel they have to project when admiring art. For me, if I like the 4yr old painting over the work of the 'masters' that's what goes on our wall.
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#28
Posted 25 March 2005 - 10:28 PM
"The important thing is not to stop questioning'' | "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
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#29
Posted 25 March 2005 - 10:34 PM
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#30
Posted 25 March 2005 - 10:34 PM
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