A Conversation for Ask h2g2

But is it art daaahlink?

Post 101

quotes

>>Way I look at it, if someone wants to call an unmade bed art they're quite welcome to... just as long as they don't expect me to call it art as well.

I would no more dismiss her work as an unmade bed, any more than I would do a da Vinci as a piece of oily canvas. I prefer to judge art by criteria other than the materials from which it is made.


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Post 102

anhaga

'We do not judge the Mona Lisa -- *she* judges us.'


smiley - smiley


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Post 103

U14993989

#100 "Way I look at it, if someone wants to call an unmade bed art they're quite welcome to... just as long as they don't expect me to call it art as well."

Mother: "Your bedroom is a pig sty!"
Child: "It's art mother".


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Post 104

Peanut

My teenagers bedroom is very artistic then smiley - smiley


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Post 105

Bertie

Im an artist - some of my work is very contemporary - work not seen before but its not acceptable because - because - ?
however hard they try, it seems that there are still endless invisible rules - till then all this strangeness can go hang, its pretentious twaddle and only there because someone with the right crude entials did it.


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Post 106

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

smiley - bigeyes
>>...someone with the right crude entials did it. <<

'crude entials'!

Love it!

smiley - cheers
~jwf~


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Post 107

Peanut

I misread to start with, I thought it was someone with crude genitals smiley - bigeyes


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Post 108

anhaga

'He who works with his hands is a labourer.

He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.'



attributed to St. Francis of Assisi

smiley - smiley


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Post 109

Maria


<<<He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.'

It depends on what is IN his head.

smiley - run




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Post 110

Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am...

The 21st Century version is surely "he who makes a pile of stuff and attaches some meaningless 'concept' to it is an artist"?

smiley - tongueincheek


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Post 111

swl

He who masquerades w*nk as art is a ...?


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Post 112

anhaga

And, again:

'We do not judge the Mona Lisa: *She* judges us.'

smiley - smiley


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Post 113

toybox

The Mona Lisa doesn't judge anyone: it's a painting.

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Post 114

anhaga

and:

'. . . here I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.'

Henry Fielding

smiley - smiley


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Post 115

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

smiley - bigeyes

Henry Fielding, a proper judge for sure.
smiley - ok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ib2b4BOZIQ
smiley - jester
~jwf~


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Post 116

swl

Oh come on smiley - cross - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15689652


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Post 117

quotes

That work measures 73 x 143-inches, so it's not fair to judge it just by looking at a small image of it on your computer.


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Post 118

anhaga

I don't understand what you're so smiley - cross about, swl.smiley - erm


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Post 119

Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am...

I think it's because a photograph, an easily reproducable medium, has been sold for millions. I'm not as annoyed as swl, but I'm certainly thinking "what the...?"


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Post 120

swl

Wrong smiley. What have we got to represent f.f.s.?


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