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| WaterDragon |
I am a philistine, I admit it, there's no way to avoid the conclusion.
Now the question is what to do about it, the easy way would be to burn down the art galleries, and re-educate the cultured into ignorance.
This is not really a viable plan, so can someone suggest how I set about educating myself about “art” in the painting and graphic sense. Just what is it that makes a Picasso “art” but graffiti, well, graffiti? A mural on fresh plaster, painted by someone like Rafael, is at least mechanically the same as graffiti on a subway wall. In a subway in Canterbury, there is a mural that is much less attractive and colourful to look at than the graffiti it covers. So what makes that are, and the graffiti not.
The French nutter who chopped his ear off dismissed as a charlatan, until he died, then he overnight becomes THE artist, and his daubings which were valueless while he was alive immensely important “art”.
So what's it all about, and how can I find out????????
So. Go on then. Tell me.
| 20 Nov 07, 6:59 PM Priapuss UK(PO), 4 yrs  |
Change your name to Zeba and stick two chips on a cracked plate. See now you're up for the Turner prize! Today's the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. | |
| 20 Nov 07, 7:46 PM helanta 8 yrs |
You look at anything and decide whether it pleases you at whatever level be it colour,form or on an emotional level. If it does then it is art...for you. An example would be an avenue of autumn leaves. The problem comes in preserving this delightful transient vision for your continued pleasure and through this to transmit your enjoyment to others....this is the power of the artist. The success of the artist differs for each and every viewer. | |
| 20 Nov 07, 9:41 PM Romola UK, 7 yrs |
You don't have to decide. You can like something, see things in it, be moved by it, but still call it graffiti. There are no answers. A poltergeist sent back in time to change the course of history forever. | |
| 21 Nov 07, 1:41 AM Prunesquallor UK(RG), 6 yrs |
Well, so far as the question of what is art, bear in mind that anything is art that its creator describes as such. The question is really whether it's good art or bad art. And to judge that becomes a question of communication and experience. To try to understand art, perhaps a good way is to look at those paintings and sculptures which have become artistic icons, and try to establish what it is about them that makes them iconic.
If you are making a value judgement on the mural and the graffiti, then you are already exercising your artistic discernment. Edited 21 Nov 07, 1:42 AM by Prunesquallor | |
| 21 Nov 07, 6:01 AM Mistress_Amethyst UK, 5 yrs   |
Oh! Lady_I, if you took you A-level are you would know all about art just like me! i took my A-Level art and passed 3 years ago. And you can do this at Adult education. but should you not be able to paint you can also do art apprecation exams.
If you dont like me it's your fault!! Edited 21 Nov 07, 6:42 AM by Mistress_Amethyst |
