Posted on 05/01/2006 12:06:29 PM PDT by A. Pole
to defend.
"The purchase is not the only excreta the Tate has in its collection; it has also bought three paintings by Chris Ofili featuring elephant dung."
Patrick Bateman owned more than one Whitney Houston album...
"Last week the gallery denied that it had tried to play down the purchase. "We buy 500 works a year so we can't talk about every one," said the spokesman."
If you ask most people what they did in college, many will recall instantly their single most shameful act in their lives... and then pretend that "it was all a haze!"
"Manzoni died, aged just 29, within two years of creating his tinned art."
I am shocked that any s--t canning salesman might suffer an untimely death somehow.....
"In a letter to a friend, he explained that his motivation for tinning his faeces was to expose the gullible nature of the art-buying public."
Then in all seriousness, one can admire his motives.
I am reminded of the photographer who has been shooting mass-nude scenes worldwide, typically exploiting the 'open-mindedness' of today's urban whores who volunteer themselves. It is nothing more than one giant sex act against them - a vile degradation of the clueless participants.
For which I salute him.
Please remove me from the art ping list (if you can). I guess I am only interested in my own art. I suppose that makes me some kind of an art snob.
The man was a genius.
Though there is something almost Randian about this story, and the final act calls the museum to be burned one night in a horrible fascist act of angry-mob terrorism....
Not all art is bad.
Try this site. You might like some of the art there.
Leni
But then you haven't seen MY art.
Work that is the product of a life lived truly, however, reflecting an enlightened analysis by the artist in his craft -- this can well orient toward the divine. God is a critic, I believe, and will bless the beauty within what creations we master.
I think good art adds a great deal to my life.
tandeta
We cannot remove artists from the Art Ping list,sorry
However if you will swear that you you will do your best never to make art again we will see what we can do..
Thank You
I'm not sure about Mitoraj's work. It looks okay, but I get the feeling (from the titles) as if he is trying to be more profound than he really is. Somehow, just breaking bodies apart is not very deep; this is true also of the lower half nude with wings. I think the architecture in the background is more interesting; looks like Venice.
But Mitoraj's work looks great compared to the cans of $&*#. I understand their conceptual promise, but really....
Ditter: we are thinking of coordinating a website for FReeper art, relative's art, etc. Perhaps when my school year is over (which is pretty soon). Maybe you can be included too.
If you are an art snob, check out Greenberg's article I just pinged (mistakenly double-pinged). Now there's food for snobs.
well just this once we will remove your name...but dont expect us to do it a second time
So do I anymore.
The last generation of Western artists to uniformly produce beautiful things were the Impressionists and their contemporaries.
Then one gets a dwindling tail of beauty: some of the symbolists and decadents, art nouveau, art deco.
It's sad: it didn't have to happen.
The last time I went to an art museum I got depressed, the moreso because
two Japanese pieces dates 2000 and 2004 were just as beautiful as the pieces next to them from the Edo period.
And 'serious' music is just a rotten: at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert, they sandwiched a flute concerto by Rouse (a living American composer, I think from Baltimore) between Beethoven's 8th and 7th.
The second movement had an absolutely gorgeous passage, magesterial, moving, building up to a crecendo, we saw the percussionists getting ready for the wonderful crash and boom which should have joined it at its height, and what did the blockheaded composer do? He threw it away, stuck in two measures of cacophonous noise before the percussion crash.
Did you actually look at the site I referenced before you posted that? I'm sure you didn't because there are hundreds, if not thousands, of paintings there with a religious theme based on factual events. From "Moses Viewing the Promised Land" by Church, to "Daniel in the Lion's Den" by Rubens, to "The Flagellation of Our Lord Christ" by Bouguereau. Are none of those inspiring to you?
Yeah, it's exam time.
This sucks.
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