|
Image of the Day Images that will blow your mind - every day. [Blog] [RSS] [XML] |
|
Thread Tools | Rate Thread | Display Modes |
|
10-04-2003, 12:05 PM | #1 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
|
10/4/2003: Lumpy sculpture
The official caption: A visitor stands in front of a sculpture by British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor in the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, Austria September 26, 2003. Kapoor is among the most prominent figures in British sculpture. I like this one a lot because here's something you really put yourself into. Playful or serious? Sexual or cancerous? Brilliant or goofy? You make the call. |
10-04-2003, 12:13 PM | #2 |
Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 12,486
|
This is one of those things that non-art fans like Hubris would quickly dismiss. But I think it's cool how people can make art out of damned near anything...that's creativity.
Here is the gallery's site in English, with a link to the exhibit. |
10-04-2003, 03:05 PM | #3 |
off target
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Indy
Posts: 93
|
It's a neat picture but . . .
I suddenly have an urge to pop a pimple . . . .
|
10-04-2003, 04:13 PM | #4 | |
Master of the Domain
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: MN
Posts: 231
|
Re: It's a neat picture but . . .
Quote:
__________________
That gun will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will be written in blood. - Nobody |
|
10-04-2003, 06:43 PM | #5 |
2nd Covenant, yo
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Pugetropolis
Posts: 583
|
Pat suddenly realized where the dog had gotten off to during the wallpapering...
__________________
The party's over ... the drink ... and the luck ... ran out. |
10-04-2003, 07:40 PM | #6 |
Master of the Domain
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: MN
Posts: 231
|
I feel an animated GIF coming on....
__________________
That gun will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will be written in blood. - Nobody |
10-05-2003, 12:56 AM | #7 | |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
Quote:
I want to know how they move that lump from gallery to gallery. Maybe it's "landlord art". Art the stays with the property.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
|
10-05-2003, 01:25 AM | #8 | |
Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 12,486
|
Quote:
|
|
10-05-2003, 08:38 AM | #9 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
Well, "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like".
Does that mean if I like it, it qualifies as art, and visa versa? I don't think so because there are museums full of "art" I don't like. Yet, I see things every day that strike me as visually appealing because of color/form/composition that aren't classified as art. Does something become art because a group of "art experts" decided it met certain criteria? What the hell IS art??
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
10-05-2003, 12:46 PM | #10 |
Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 12,486
|
It's what I decide, so shut the fuck up and like it!
In general, I think part of it is decided by art experts, part of it is decided by general consensus and part is decided by the creator. That's why if/when you go to the Art Museum, you're bound to see some things that you think are artworthy, and others that are just crap. I myself give a rather broad definition to art, which is derided by the "common man" and art nazis. Fuck them...if I think it's art, then it's art to me. So from that perspective, it really is in the eye of the beholder. |
10-05-2003, 10:00 PM | #11 | |
lobber of scimitars
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Phila Burbs
Posts: 20,774
|
Quote:
__________________
wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis |
|
10-06-2003, 03:07 AM | #12 | |
Knight of the Oval-Shaped Conference Table
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 375
|
Quote:
Quzah. |
|
10-06-2003, 10:28 AM | #13 | |
Belt Conveyor
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Sioux City, IA
Posts: 66
|
Quote:
__________________
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962) |
|
10-06-2003, 01:59 PM | #14 | |
I think this line's mostly filler.
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DC
Posts: 13,575
|
Quote:
__________________
_________________ |...............| We live in the nick of times. | Len 17, Wid 3 | |_______________| [pics] |
|
10-06-2003, 04:43 PM | #15 | |
Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Kingdom of Atlantia
Posts: 2,979
|
Quote:
I fought with the Prof over this for several classtimes. He said as an example that Norman Rockwell did not intend for his pictures to be art, therefore they are not considered art. I found that difficult to swallow, still do. On the test, to get the question right, I had to write "Art is Intent". I had made such a fuss that it was weighed at 25% of the final exam grade. I still believe that art is wholly in the eye of the beholder.
__________________
Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt |
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|