[AreaMan]

Art?

Here's some are for ya poindexter:

On Velvet of course...

[loaloa]

I may not know what I like, but I know what is good.

[Ozone34]

I wish I were as smart and well-read as Roger Kimball! Everything he writes is priceless. I recommend his collection of essays for more on this topic:

“Art’s Prospect: A Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity”

http://www.amazon.com/Arts-Prospect-Challenge-Tradition-Celebrity/dp/1566635101

[ml/nj]

Kimball's The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art is one of the funniest books I have ever read. I know we're talking art here, but anyone interested in this stuff really should read this book.

ML/NJ

[ctdonath2]

Or does it?

I've recently concluded that the definition of "art" is "something created for the sole purpose of being looked at" - nothing more, and today's "art" seems he11-bent on making sure there is nothing less.

[EyeGuy]

“The End of Art”

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AKA Pablo Picasso

[Mr Ramsbotham]

In my worldview, art is a means of conveying abstract ideas in such a way that the artist can recreate, to the greatest extent possible in the mind of an observer, his own unique perceptions of the cosmos. To the extent that he succeeds in this, what he has produced is art. To the extent that he does not succeed, what he has produced is not art.

[just a dude]

True art is an expression of the Soul. Political correctness represses that expression. Hence those forces that wield the PC banner are both destroyers and corruptors of the Soul. Unless said expression pushes their agenda and matches their world view, all the while corrupting compliant souls...

At least that's how simply I see things.

[JimSEA]

I readily admit to absolute ignorance as to art. However, I know what I like. The Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago is my favorite and a place where I can spend many hours. The distinction between “art” and “grotesque” and that which is made for political and cultural rather than artistic motivations is clear to my mind in the exhibits.

[Joe 6-pack]

The End of Art?

"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

[Dan Lacey]

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Modern art is a platonic playground of the ideal. Perception of the ideal includes perception of what is NOT ideal. Modern art takes the visual and auditory shapes that society uses to communicate its values and reassembles them in a laboratory free from the dictatorship of inefficient, pre-programmed anachronistic cultural meaning. Dissassemble, reassemble. Without this cognitive process, nothing, repeat: nothing gets discovered. Art that is not a process of discovery is dead. Art that illustrates or mimics nature is dead. (We have cameras to do that, Mr. Kincaid)

Artists are outsiders. Only from the outside can cultural and cognitive determinants be analyzed and made accessible to greater efficiency. Only from the outside can the idea-shapes that define what we are be hammered into new tools to make us into what we can be. Any human who is not propelled by what is POTENTIAL for themselves, their family, their country, is a walking corpse.

Read more in the Essays section at: http://walteralter.newsit.es/

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Modern art is a platonic playground of the ideal. Perception of the ideal includes perception of what is NOT ideal. Modern art takes the visual and auditory shapes that society uses to communicate its values and reassembles them in a laboratory free from the dictatorship of inefficient, pre-programmed anachronistic cultural meaning. Dissassemble, reassemble. Without this cognitive process, nothing, repeat: nothing gets discovered. Art that is not a process of discovery is dead. Art that illustrates or mimics nature is dead. (We have cameras to do that, Mr. Kincaid)

Artists are outsiders. Only from the outside can cultural and cognitive determinants be analyzed and made accessible to greater efficiency. Only from the outside can the idea-shapes that define what we are be hammered into new tools to make us into what we can be. Any human who is not propelled by what is POTENTIAL for themselves, their family, their country, is a walking corpse.

Read more in the Essays section at: http://walteralter.newsit.es/