Comments on: What is art? http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:01:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Art « Bookworm Room http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/#comment-14509 Art « Bookworm Room Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:38:34 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1764#comment-14509 [...] Posted on September 21, 2007 by Bookworm A few weeks ago, I did a “what is art” post.  Aaron Johnson, an artist who uses a cartoon panel for social commentary at What The Duck, must [...] [...] Posted on September 21, 2007 by Bookworm A few weeks ago, I did a “what is art” post.  Aaron Johnson, an artist who uses a cartoon panel for social commentary at What The Duck, must [...]

]]> By: Kosmas http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/#comment-14510 Kosmas Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:35:07 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1764#comment-14510 Nice Nice

]]> By: ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/#comment-14511 ymarsakar Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:18:00 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1764#comment-14511 Let me see if I can remember the hierarchy. It was epistemology +metaphysics=ethics. Ethics leads to politics. So maybe ethics and politics becomes aesthetics and then art. The scatological goes back to caveman days. Modern art is ugly because it only sees ugliness in whatever it looks upon. Let me see if I can remember the hierarchy. It was epistemology +metaphysics=ethics. Ethics leads to politics. So maybe ethics and politics becomes aesthetics and then art.

The scatological goes back to caveman days. Modern art is ugly because it only sees ugliness in whatever it looks upon.

]]> By: pacificus http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/#comment-14512 pacificus Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:15:03 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1764#comment-14512 The arts have always been informed by philosophy; you can correlate the various periods of Western art with the various philosophies regnant at the time. The utterly vapid, even vile, manifestations offered up in our era as art are only indicitive of the equally vapid and vile thinking that lies behind it. Cacophonous music, paint spattered canvases, and everyday objects--usually scatological--offered up as sculpture, are expressive of the mind-numbing drumbeat of modern philosophy--there is no truth, no goodness, no beauty because there is no foundation for any of these things--truth, goodness, and beauty as standards are only impositions of imperialist, colonialist, bourgeois, racist, homophobic, phallocentric, logocentric Western man,and do not deserve any more respect than these "expressions" give them. Thats why all modern art is ugly, uninspriring, and angry. The arts have always been informed by philosophy; you can correlate the various periods of Western art with the various philosophies regnant at the time. The utterly vapid, even vile, manifestations offered up in our era as art are only indicitive of the equally vapid and vile thinking that lies behind it. Cacophonous music, paint spattered canvases, and everyday objects–usually scatological–offered up as sculpture, are expressive of the mind-numbing drumbeat of modern philosophy–there is no truth, no goodness, no beauty because there is no foundation for any of these things–truth, goodness, and beauty as standards are only impositions of imperialist, colonialist, bourgeois, racist, homophobic, phallocentric, logocentric Western man,and do not deserve any more respect than these “expressions” give them. Thats why all modern art is ugly, uninspriring, and angry.

]]> By: Photo Buffet http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/#comment-14501 Photo Buffet Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:45:35 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1764#comment-14501 Chihuly's glasswork is incredible! I'm so glad I stumbled across your link to it. I agree; THAT is art! Thanks for mentioning it. Chihuly’s glasswork is incredible! I’m so glad I stumbled across your link to it. I agree; THAT is art! Thanks for mentioning it.

]]> By: Jose http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/#comment-14502 Jose Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:47:43 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1764#comment-14502 One of my favorite quotes: "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." -- Tom Stoppard One of my favorite quotes:
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
— Tom Stoppard

]]> By: Mike Devx http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/#comment-14503 Mike Devx Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:40:48 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1764#comment-14503 The art that you like defines YOU. My favorite moment in the Tim Burton movie 'Batman' is when the Joker and his minions are rampaging through the art museum, absolutely TRASHING everything. One of them is a half-second from defacing a particular painting and the Joker's hand enters the movie frame and halts him, mid-action! It is a Goya painting of a horrific nightmare, dark and tortured. The Joker shakes his head to his henchman. "I kinda like this one," he says. You can tell a lot about a person by examining the art he or she particularly likes - and does not like. The art that you like defines YOU.

My favorite moment in the Tim Burton movie ‘Batman’ is when the Joker and his minions are rampaging through the art museum, absolutely TRASHING everything. One of them is a half-second from defacing a particular painting and the Joker’s hand enters the movie frame and halts him, mid-action! It is a Goya painting of a horrific nightmare, dark and tortured. The Joker shakes his head to his henchman. “I kinda like this one,” he says.

You can tell a lot about a person by examining the art he or she particularly likes - and does not like.

]]> By: expreacherman http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/#comment-14504 expreacherman Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:25:45 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1764#comment-14504 Hello Book, Good question. As a "recovering" artist since the early fifties, I look at most "art" with a jaundiced eye. Fine Arts was my first college major, (Painting major with minors in graphics and ceramic technology). I was willingly brainwashed (or brain dirtied) by liberal professors who "loved" my work. A couple of my paintings were shown in New York Galleries, one, as I recall. was "The Creative Gallery." Then I matured and realized that my idols, Picasso, Mondrian, Pollack, and many more (and their devotees) were merely slick shills for a future Socialist society. So I gave it up -- cold turkey. Now that I have abandoned it I look back at the last three remaining paintings of mine.. I see why I was so disgusted. Terrible art... Terrible philosophy. What is art? Pollack and the elephants know. Garbage. Some of the old masters were technically beyond compare... but such is passe' to the "artsy" community today. My conclusion: Art was originally done to recreate what man saw of God's creation. It evolved and then devolved.. into what we see today, which is exercising every effort to take God's creation twisted and distorted it until it is unrecognizable. Hey I know, I was part of it! Have a laugh and look at my last three existing paintings distorting reality here: http://weaverclan.com/pics.htm ExP(Jack) Hello Book,

Good question.

As a “recovering” artist since the early fifties, I look at most “art” with a jaundiced eye. Fine Arts was my first college major, (Painting major with minors in graphics and ceramic technology).

I was willingly brainwashed (or brain dirtied) by liberal professors who “loved” my work. A couple of my paintings were shown in New York Galleries, one, as I recall. was “The Creative Gallery.”

Then I matured and realized that my idols, Picasso, Mondrian, Pollack, and many more (and their devotees) were merely slick shills for a future Socialist society. So I gave it up — cold turkey. Now that I have abandoned it I look back at the last three remaining paintings of mine.. I see why I was so disgusted. Terrible art… Terrible philosophy.

What is art? Pollack and the elephants know. Garbage. Some of the old masters were technically beyond compare… but such is passe’ to the “artsy” community today.

My conclusion: Art was originally done to recreate what man saw of God’s creation. It evolved and then devolved.. into what we see today, which is exercising every effort to take God’s creation twisted and distorted it until it is unrecognizable. Hey I know, I was part of it!

Have a laugh and look at my last three existing paintings distorting reality here:
http://weaverclan.com/pics.htm

ExP(Jack)

]]> By: Michael Phillips http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/#comment-14505 Michael Phillips Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:39:20 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1764#comment-14505 I agree with you too, Mrs Bookworm. I avoid "art" galleries, but I often go to see unusual or unexpected shows in Tokyo or when I'm traveling. In Tokyo I saw an African exhibit that was too large for any gallery in the U.S. The show was spectacular...incomparable. This show took my breath away: http://www.theatlantic.com/slideshows/erickson/ I define fine art as work that has the power to let an individual viewer see their world in a different way. Great art has the power to let many people see the world in a different way, often changing the language, metaphor and imagery that we all use. Think Munch 'Scream.' I agree with you too, Mrs Bookworm. I avoid “art” galleries, but I often go to see unusual or unexpected shows in Tokyo or when I’m traveling. In Tokyo I saw an African exhibit that was too large for any gallery in the U.S. The show was spectacular…incomparable.

This show took my breath away: http://www.theatlantic.com/slideshows/erickson/

I define fine art as work that has the power to let an individual viewer see their world in a different way.

Great art has the power to let many people see the world in a different way, often changing the language, metaphor and imagery that we all use. Think Munch ‘Scream.’

]]> By: Danny Lemieux http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/09/02/what-is-art/#comment-14506 Danny Lemieux Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:31:47 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=1764#comment-14506 I would like to propose what good art is not - i.e., subsidized by the State. I would like to propose what good art is not - i.e., subsidized by the State.

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