h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Art is only Art if its contrived and done to a higher standard than wot's in life, the Artistic statment and all!



the end (artitstic statement)

In a word...

Huh?

just go for it anth and enjoy it too

The method's not a valid point as to why you should or shouldn't be able to be considered an artist. For example, I think Pollock (basically splashing paint on a canvas) and Matisse (arthritic who created art with scissors) are much more stimulating than say Lowry, who was and still is an over-rated hack. Ask AD, they had us copying Lowry pictures in Primary School, and any ten-year old with the ability to hold a pen can draw bleak matchstalk men.

Besides, using a computer still takes a great degree of dexterity (go on, write your signature on paint and compare it to one done with a pen), and of course an eye for detail and original ideas, which in my opinion (and as it seems, Khamsin's too) are the mark of truly great art.

Just my tuppence worth.

I prefer Lowry to Pollock. At least you can look at Lowry and know hes tried to draw something.

As opposed to Pollock who seems to have splashed paint all over that lovely canvas. You can imagine him painting one day, dropping his brush and then looking at the floor and thinking 'I can sell this to some poor sod'

Art's subjective though innit? Pollock's good as long as it's not meant to mean anything. All it is to me is an expression of random events taking on some sort of abstract form. Plus John Squire copied it to make the cover for a few Stone Roses releases...

Please don't start,you two,please!

Sigh...Anthea why couldn't you take something simple like...geography which people can't argue about so much...at least I hope they can't! Surely there's only so much to say about GIS

Hey, Lorelei, ever thought this so-called 'feud' between AD and myself is perpetuated by people like you and Reef stoking the fire everytime we have a difference of opinion. This is about ART. Art relies on people's VIEWS of a piece. Look at what was said:

Me: "I think Pollock and Matisseare much more stimulating than say Lowry"

AD: "I prefer Lowry to Pollock."

Sweet baby Jesus, hit the deck, WWIII has erupted! Can you believe they see different peices of ART differently!?! Call the UN! Beware for nuclear holocaust! Civilisation as we know it is about to end!
Or not.

Does this mean we're not allowed opinions?

Quote me?? Show my opinions in a repititous fashion in relation to an event that has yet to occur in a thread about comments on art in conjunctions with referances to the United Nations? On the fifteenth of March, the sixtieth Anniversery of the the battle of Iowa Jima, where the twenty one thousand strong Japanesse garrison died to a man (barring two hundred and two cowards), because the americans had bombed them for seventy two days before hand, using planes and battleships, and had lost over two thousand five hundred men trying to capture the mountain on the Island, because they wanted a place to launch bombers? Refer to me as AD in relation to my comments about Jackson Pollock known only by his second name, or as the guy who did the splashing on the canvas, when my comments were not really relevent to the ever lasting condrum of the question that is 'what is art'? All this today, Two days before Saint Patricks day, the celebration of Irish things, and the only excuse to have shamrocks shaven onto various body parts and slow moving animals?

Oh well when you put it like that...
Fair enough then carry on.

Eh?? I've said sod all to you 2 in ages, I gave up months ago, some people were born to argue the toss and that's you 2, if one of you said tomorrow was wednesday they other would disagree for the sheer hell of it.

However can I keep quiet at such a malicious and spiteful reply as that! He practically insulted my mother with that slow moving animals comment! Someone call the mods! And for safety, call the rockers too!

Oh, and Reef, tomorrow's only Wednesday in English speaking countries.

I knew it, I knew could never resist and arguement well if my mythology serves me right Wednesday was named after Woden(sp) so blame the Danish

Whats that about my Mother? And why do you have to call the rockers they did nothing to you! You just want to inflict opinions in a declarative rather then imperative way dont you, presenting different veiws on the world as a whole. How dare you sir. How Dare You.


And reef I sharnt say anything, t'would only devolve the thread now.

A duel, a duel, swords or pistols sirs

The pen. For it is mightier than the sword (but only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp).

Limericks, the one that makes me laugh out loud win's

Her name was Sue






She had hair that grew








all the way from her knees to her fa**ey










and on Saturday nights




by a pale moon light







you could see her comb it quite dandy






not really a limerick but cleaner



RJR