I'm going to leave this thread open and post a picture to demonstrate the ideas of subjection and evolution in artwork. Don't worry, it's a neat pony pic. I'm just a little busy. xD
Wow, you think THAT is bad? I went to an art exhibition, and for this man's piece, he made a horizontal crack in the wall paint and then, and this is the weird part, squirted brain matter into the crack. That was it. Then you didn't know it was brain matter until you read the information sign. So it just looked like a crack in a wall. The picture in the OP I find amazingly done, not sure what it's message is, but it's a lot better than a crack in a wall lined with brain juice. :I
Well, after combing EqD and a few Google searches like a blood hound, I found this image in my comic folder (after perusing Celestia's folder as well) when I went through each image individually. *facedesk ARGH!* Wasted about 30 minutes, but I hope you guys enjoy and understand. Spoiler: Art History With Celestia
There is still great art being made. The internet now makes it possible to be instantly aware of all the bad art. The fact that an unusual sculpture sells for a good sum of money should not be your signal of a cultural catastrophe.
As far as the sculpture in the OP goes, I do think that is art. Art, even hundreds of years ago, wasn't always about grace and beauty. Sometimes it was meant to horrify, or to make you laugh. Perhaps the latter was the intention of that piece. It certainly looks like it took some work. As for people paying millions of dollars for paintings that took little effort? Well, my dad once told me that everything is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I think it's nearly criminal how some professional sports players in the U.S. get payed so much, or how expensive some cars are. I mean, they're methods of transportation. I just don't get it. Still, there is some good modern art out there. On a side note, this is my favorite painting ever:
I really can't complain about the abovementioned sculpture. I mean, at least it isn't a dot, line, or holes in the wall. Now, I'm a pretty open minded person in terms of art. Even though the sculpture of the bull represents something more whimsical in nature doesn't devalue its artistic merit. It's still well made. To be perfectly honest, art is what YOU find it to be. I'm sure I won't buy a horizontal line because I find meaning in it, but you can't speak for others. The person who bought the horizontal (or was it vertical?) line must have found some meaning or merit in the piece. (or he knew the guy) Don't judge things that are subjective to the viewer. Share your opinion. Personally, to me, this modernist stuff is crap. I don't find meaning in it. A horizontal line with 'brain juice' is just... Weird? Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk
Stuff as basic as vectors can still be great pieces of art. Perhaps some pieces can only be understood in the eyes of someone else's madness. Spoiler: The Soul of a Leader by CrappyUnicorn That is a magnificent piece of art in my eyes. Spoiler: Derpy and Lil' Sparky by EquestriaPrevails And that is a "simple" vector, but still great art in my eyes. Artwork contains an imagination, even if the conveyance can't quite by achieved to heavily detailed degrees. Sometimes excessive detail isn't needed at all.
Funnily enough, no one technically purchased it. Apparently, he just came and made a slit in the wall and inserted the matter, it wasn't even separate to the building itself. Quoted from "The British Art Show 7 - In The Days of the Comet" (2010) artist log: "Roger Hiorns: Roger Hiorns investigates alchemical transformations of ideas, actions and materials. Organic matter and chemical compounds and processes – brains, fire, crystals, sperm and drugs – are introduced into man-made structures, among them buildings, engines and street furniture. His crystallisations of copper sulphate have produced encrustations of ultra-blue on car engines and, most spectacularly, invaded a council flat in South London.In Nottingham, Hiorns places a generic municipal bench in the gallery. At unspecified intervals, a flame will flare at one end of the bench, occasionally tended by a naked young man. Elsewhere in the gallery space, a thin slit in the wall becomes a receptacle for bovine brain matter." Well. There you have it. Turns out he's won awards too. :I Also, I like this thread. Art discussion is awesome.
Some people have different tastes I guess. For instance, in simpler terms, I love the colour purple, but detest the colour green, whereas someone may love the colour green and hate the colour purple. Some art inspires people, some art makes people happy, some art makes people sad and that's all art really is. Just an expression of emotions. A 1 minute video on Youtube designed in WMM may make you feel more emotions than something done by a huge corporation with fancy equipment. Whether that be a straight line, a load of brush marks or a bull doing something weird, someone's going to feel something from it.
So much yes right here! That's all for now :derpe: I'll save the deep philosophical art discussion for later when I haven't just woken up.
