Posted on 05/28/2016 11:01:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
hould children be allowed in art galleries?
In 2014 Jake Chapman caused a minor furore, and prompted a lot of column inches, when he said that taking kids to galleries was a “waste of time”.
He told The Independent parents were "arrogant" for thinking their children could understand artists like Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko, adding "children are not human yet".
The two children in this video, which has been going viral in recent days, clearly couldn’t give a hoot what Jake Chapman has to say about their appreciation of art.
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And as their parents look on, filming their offspring enjoying themselves, the kids get up close to one exhibit – a sculpture called “Angel Is Waiting” by Shelly Xue – and start touching it.
One of them pull sit away from the wall, it falls back – and breaks.
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Once I took my daughter with the women’s group at church to an art exhibit. She understood the older paintings of famous people and scenes, but was confused by the abstract art, stating her younger brother did that at daycare for free and no one put it on the wall here.
And they ask you what is that?
And you have to think what this crap might be.
About 10 years ago in Columbia SC, artists spent the evening setting up “art” on a on the street for the next day’s art exhibit. In the early morning hours, the street cleaners came by and collected the “art”, thinking it was garbage.
Good luck with sorting the well behaved from the brats. Their parents obviously didn’t think their darlings were doing anything wrong and will of course scream discrimination immediately.
My friends, who travel several times a year, have metnoined many times that the children of tourists from far east Asia are very disruptive on tour buses, in museums, restaurants and on cruise ships. This surprised me because I tend to think of orientals as well mannered - guess things have changed — a lot.
It is not that the general public hasn't the skill or taste to "understand" contemporary art, or that their reaction to it is irrelevant. It is that contemporary art has made itself irrelevant to the vast majority, through just such claptrap as "deconstruction" and "critical theory". Much the same can be said for poetry and literature.
But, people have been told by the elitist types for years that their seeing crap art as crap is due to their unsophisticated and ignorant tastes. It isn't.
I contend that art invokes emotional response. If the vast majority of viewers have the emotional response of indifference, or that what they are viewing is total crap, then guess what? The art is total crap.
Jackson Pollock's works are total crap, and the only reason for his fame and the price of his drop cloth drippings, is because an elite group of jaded society "art critics" decided to make him their darling.
Art is that which moves, inspires emotion, relates to the human condition, connects us through common experience. By that measure, the lauded artist of last century are greatly failures. Their works relate poorly, are devoid of content, devoid of common experience, are unaccessible to the vast majority of humanity. One shouldn't need a degree in Fine Art to "understand" art, because art needs no self-appointed explanatory intercessors.
You don't need a degree in art to understand intrinsically the cave paintings at Lascaux, or the statues of Greece and Rome, the patterned tiles of Alhambra and intricate knots of Celtic bibles. You don't need it to understand the play of light captured by Monet or the power of the sea captured by Homer. They all speak to the common experience of human kind, and need no translator or deconstruction. The artistry is manifest.
Want to know who the greatest artist of the 20th century was? Walt Disney.
He touched more people with his art than Rothko, Pollock or Serrano could ever hope to, even if they weren't doomed to be forgotten historical footnotes of a tasteless era when fine art tried its damnedest to become entirely irrelevant.
Art is evil and anti-American. Whose side are you on, son? Don’t you love your country? Then how about getting with the program? Why don’t you jump on the team and come on in for the big win? Son, all I’ve ever asked of my compatriots is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the artist, because inside every faggot artist there is an American trying to get out. It’s a hardball world, son. We’ve gotta keep our heads until this art craze blows over.
Don’t fall victim to the Communist art plot!
If you stop producing art, God will smile upon you. Art is the Devil trying to enter our plane of existance.
Art will kill us all. Don’t be a part of this fatal movement.
Miss Marmelstein! How have you been? You know, I’ve seen Picasso(meh) Rembrandt(nice) Monet, Manet, etc. All very nice. The most breath taking, most fabulous art I’d ever seen was when some eight years ago my wife and I went to The National Gallery in DC to see an exhibit of The Pre-Raphelites. Literally took my breath away.
Oh, the Pre-Raphaelites! Did you know most of them are owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber? I saw them at the Royal Academy several years ago. I love the National Gallery in DC. I’ve only been there once and it was wonderful. We went looking for a Giorgione that was once thought to be a Titian. (The Giorgione is considered the rarer of the two.) Just wonderful.
Hope all is well with you; I always love seeing your posts.
A few years back a little hellion was in the grocery knocking potatoes on the floor. I told him in a stern voice to stop doing that. He looked at me and said “you’re not my mom”.
Too late! I died ten years ago.
Can you not see the subtle invocation of the crushing oppression of the working class artist at the hands of his bourgeois public, who will never understand the true depth of the emotional tropes suggested by the synecdoche of this brilliant work between color and the blandness of human existence? Of course not. You're all scum.
Oh, by the way, entrance to see this little gem will run you twenty-five buckadingdongs. Suckers.
And we wonder about the “special snowflake” fad...
lol Was there a painting in the urinal?
This being Rothko's enigmatically titled "Red".
I dunno - are you sure that isn’t upside down?
I see he missed a spot. And should have used a better primer.
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