Posted on 10/13/2007 4:51:13 AM PDT by urtax$@work
New movie out in October. From the site:
Synopsis: within a few months 4yr old Marla Olmstead sold over $300K worth of paintings. Compared to Kandinsky and Pollock....
Michael Kimmelman Quotes: "people don't seem to feel there's really some way of judging what's good, what's bad. There's this large idea out there that abstract art has no standards, no truths.." .."pulls the veil off this con game...."
(Excerpt) Read more at sonyclassics.com ...
Some years ago 60 Minutes did a hilarious segment on modern art, focusing on Baquiat. I'd love to watch that again.
The hostility to modern art amuses me. I just think the art is rotten, and makes no connection to the people. But some folks need to kick this dead horse, for some reason--what could be deader than dull art? It seems awfully defensive.
My wife smeared a few colors on a 16” x 48” piece of sheet rock to help figure out our new scheme in the house. I told her we need to save it for the next art festival down here in Ocean Springs, MS as it might sell for a lot if she can come up with a cool sounding name for it.
I’ll appreciate modern “art” a whole lot more when they start flogging (sic) feces smeared Mohammad buggering an eight year old boy. They won’t because they’re intellectual frauds and moral cowards.
Interesting, I’d like to see it, but I hadn’t heard of it.
This guy can paint! (make sure you watch till the end.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JwAh3tPmMA
It has been said that the average person “lives a life of quiet desperation”, and that, in my view, explains the hostility.
People who produce “Art” that is childish, ugly, or silly and who are then acclaimed by The People Who Matter as genuises (and rewarded accordingly) just royally p*ss the rest of us off.
About the only tv show my mother let me watch before age 12, was Bob Ross.
I learned a lot about art elsewhere, but that’s what I like. :)
What these vile people do in their evil little worlds doesn't p*ss me off until their world collides with mine.
Like when my tax dollars become involved.
Thanks. That was great!
Being raised by parents who met each other in Art School, being royally PO'd and disgusted are the milder ways of describing the feelings I have toward some of it.
We had a judged exhibition at a local art museum about a decade ago, where the director must have broken up with his husband, or something, because only paintings done in somber, depressive blue and black placed! The content did not matter-It was the mood of them.
Here’s another artist...this guy paints with McDonald’s french fries and ketchup...it’s amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gvGDsIYrrQ&mode=related&search=
Cool...enjoyed the link ;)
Maybe, maybe not. The audience wouldn’t be close enough to see the tracing lines or the color codes on the canvas.
I discussed this artist with a friend who attended a lecture by an automobile designer. He had the same technique but in that case the friend was close enough to see the tracing lines from his front row seat.
Synopsis: within a few months 4yr old Marla Olmstead sold over $300K worth of paintings. Compared to Kandinsky and Pollock....
stick it in a bottle of urine...and all the lib/dems will que up to buy it!!!
Happy little trees make for happy people!
I, too, had wondered if he might have marks on the canvas to indicate where to begin and end certain strokes, colors, etc....still pretty amazing to me as it’s done so fast.
saw the promo trailer. Her work sells for thousands? Just goes to show there are people with more money than sense
Matthew Arnold once said that art should “illuminate the best that men can be.” Since most modern art either celebrates mediocrity or wallows in deviance, I don’t think it meets that definition. Consequently, it isn’t worthy of my attention, and certainly not worthy of my money.
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