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dave put me down as soul less - that was a heap of - Now if you want to talk about jmw turner that is a different matter
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I haven't a clue what you are talking about tbf. I quite possibly see art more often than you, though I don't feel that is boast worthy, nor do I expect you to like what I see. I certainly would not be abusive if you did not.
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Blackbarn ^
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Saddo - You say you "possibly see more art more often that me" and that may be the case. What do you do? I buy and sell modern art. My specialist subject is Grosvenor School linocuts. I also do sussex stuff specifically - Ravilious, Bawden et al. What do you do. or see
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I did say possibly. I visit Yorkshire scuplture park almost weekly, and The Hepworth Gallery when something new comes in. I prefer the Moore stuff to Hepworth's in the main, though I do think she'd have made a great designer of suspension bridges. I think Chatsworth is magical for the modern sculpture hidden around the gardens, but it's a drive.
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If you'd started talking commonsense earlier we could have had a good debate. Only kidding, well just a bit!!
It's hard to take some of these "new" artists seriously when you have only seen a bit. You get Tracey Emin's unmade bed, then you get to see some drawings, then you think hang on!!, then she's Professor of Drawing (ffs) at the Royal Academy. Who was it who said trust nothing of what you hear and half of what you see. |
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Take the bed rubbish away and she is still much more miss than hit for me, though I think she really can draw. Moores drawings are spookily precice if rather spooky also. I haven't seen owt by Antony Gormley that I didn't really like, including the Angel. It must be a Northern thing as I am a sucker for Hockney as well.
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art is about ideas dustybin not about unique technical talent. A photograph can be art but a photograph of art isn't.
Value is attained by endeavours of the artisan, in whatever skill that emanates. It is often said that art is what it makes people think, and to an extent that is true, but art tends to be purposefully open ended to take on whatever narrative the observer may make, while aesthetics are universal to the extent we are all born with an intuitionist basis of recognising such things. What I see is a multitude of pretence that makes up for a lack of ability in creating a thing of beauty; in that sense these art forms are simply opportunistic. The analogy of the camera could be used to suggest that perfection in skill is the recreation of reality by the hands alone. That is where art went following the Renaissance until the likes of expressionism went off half c0ck and any and all jumped aboard plying trades in making things out of nothing, mainly for money. |