Posted on 03/05/2023 9:15:17 PM PST by Ozguy1945
Thanks ozguy. See my post #17 for more.....
Yes they did.
Not a fan at all.
Not always subjective.
Agreed.
Everybody Loves Raymond – The Sculpture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqIhpH6axs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZSoiMKW5M
Goodnight, olog. Rest well.
Sounds like you’re starting to experience an existential crisis. If you want to blame me for that, go ahead, but I never put myself up as the moral authority nor did I address you specifically; I merely acknowledge who is the moral authority, as does this website.
My mother and 2 sisters were artists. They painted images of beauty and awe. ‘
O’Keefe was a dirty old woman with a scattered mind.and her paintings reflected it.I, as a young child, wonddred what anyone saw in her art and still do.
Vaginas... they saw vaginas.
Glorified ones, at that.
Not at all.
You can call modernist trash art and still be conservative.
Keeping trash in your home is your problem, not anyone else's.
huh? Would they say that about a guy?
It’s lucky that art tastes differ. If you liked everything that we liked, AAA, think how the price of prints would skyrocket.
But I agree that the definition of modern art is most certainly personal. Mother used to take me to the art institute to see her favorite sculptures by Lorado Taft. She’d studied in his studio during her college days. I can remember being less than 10 years old and walking thru the modern art room and wondering how a white canvas could be considered art. And yet it DID hang in a museum.
Art seems to be inherently personal. I have a friend who lived in Indonesia for a few years and, to me, she is a walking piece of art. She IS an artist. She is beautiful. But it’s the way she uses color and design to turn herself into a walking pattern that simply amazes me. For me, it’s those moments when lines meet, or colors synchronize that are the modern art that give me daily surprises and joy.
Just as O’Keefe is YOUR white canvas, I’m certain that much of your own taste would be someone else’s white canvas. And that’s perfectly fine for everyone.
So I’m disqualified from being a conservative?
I suppose one can be politically conservative and liberal in every other way, but IMHO, a true conservative is conservative in every way, which is why, for example, “conservative” homosexuals and those who claim to be conservative, but are morally or fiscally liberal make me uncomfortable.
I first heard of Georgia O’Keefe when I lived in Santa Fe. I bought a poster of hers there. Too bad it wasn’t a painting.
Sorry to come in so late; but you seem to be confusing spirituality and political philosophy. They are very different things.
I have great respect for Georgia O’Keefe’s work - one of the few ‘modern artists’ that I’ve really appreciated. (And I had one of the ‘vaginas’ hanging over my bed for many years...)
I’m also politically Conservative, and believe profoundly in a Creator God, and in the philosophy of Jesus.
(And I think the American revolutionaries in the 1700’s were considered ‘extreme’ by many people...)
If you look at post #3, you’ll get my point better, hopefully.
What you posted in your #3 has nothing to do with what Ozguy initially posted - it’s something you interjected, apparently because you don’t think biographies of homosexuals should be discussed on a Conservative site at all.
There are probably all sorts of artistic and other kinds of works that you’ve admired without knowing that the creators were ‘gay’.
Many artists have been homo- or bi-sexual. So have military heroes, and all sorts of geniuses. Most people just didn’t really know it a lot of the time.
Alan Turing
Baron von Steuben
Arguably Alexander, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci.
The list is long.
How does it not have anything to do with it?
Think of the assertion “Looking good”. Particularly the latter word.
She WAS a good-looking woman, with a strong character that showed in her physiognomy.
Stieglitz photographed her many times, some of the photos are very beautiful.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Stieglitz%2C_Georgia_O%27Keeffe%2C_1918.jpg
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