Ahmed Bin S wrote:Or, what is the skill in the 86 million dollar painting Orange, Red, Yellow - I'm sorry, but this painting is rubbish, I could have done something like this when I was 5 years old!
With this painting, Munch met his stated goal of "the study of the soul, that is to say the study of my own self". Munch wrote of how the painting came to be: "I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature." He later described the personal anguish behind the painting, "for several years I was almost mad… You know my picture, 'The Scream?' I was stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood… After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again."
To capture an attention. Usually during my lunch I eat quick and the rest of time I read book. I have to admit, I spent nearly whole time of my lunch at looking to it. And I really like it.Ahmed Bin S wrote:Or, what is the skill in the 86 million dollar painting Orange, Red, Yellow
Stephan van Hulst wrote:The thing about a lot of abstract art is that you have to see it in context.
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That said, we've also produced some of the worst comedy ever made - "Are You Being Served" being a good case in point:
Stephan van Hulst wrote:As for the Mark Rothko painting, it's worth noting that the point of the painting is not in the shapes or the strokes, but in the colors themselves. The colors he uses are the subject of the painting.
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:But there's got to be some benchmark doesn't there? Otherwise someone could just tie a painbrush to the tail of a dog and sell whatever random splats result as art.
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Artists do have to live too, and Millais made more money from his "chocolate box" pictures than he ever did from his pre-Raphaelite stuff.
Adam Scheller wrote:Yesterday in a newspaper I found that the picture below got sold on an action. Try to guess for how much it got sold, in EUR? I cannot tell the name of the artist because that would make things easier
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Adam Scheller wrote:Yesterday in a newspaper I found that the picture below got sold on an action. Try to guess for how much it got sold, in EUR? I cannot tell the name of the artist because that would make things easier
Sepp Blatter? (I noticed the corrupted '$' sign)
If so, I'm sure one of his cronies would stump up a million to help pay his legal fees...
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Adam Scheller wrote:IMO, the modern art is not about art, but about signatures.
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Stephan van Hulst wrote:The thing about a lot of abstract art is that you have to see it in context. People who don't enjoy it often don't consider the reasons or the history behind a piece of art. No, I don't enjoy watching a black square on a canvas; what I enjoy is the story that it tells, the symbolism, and consider what the artist experienced in their life to come up with something like that. Malevich built on the work of the people before him, and when you place his paintings in historical context, it makes a lot more sense.
Adam Scheller wrote:
It's not Sepp Blatter. It's Adam Scheller I lied about the auction. I sketched those totally random lines in about 10 seconds. But if somebody is interested in buying it for a million dollars then send me a poorple moosage
Adam Scheller wrote:
IMO, the modern art is not about art, but about signatures. If one would do an official auction of the picture above and said it's sketched by some famous artist, it would be called as a great piece of modern art and could be sold for several hundred of thousands US dollars. But if the auctioneer would tell it's a sketch of an ordinary guy coding Java, people would laugh on it.
Ahmed Bin S wrote:Fair enough, but then that means that modern art isn't based on how good something is
Stephan van Hulst wrote:Can you explain to me who you think is the greater artist, Ludwig van Beethoven or Bob Dylan?
Why?
Who's the greater philosopher, Aristotle or Descartes?
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Stephan van Hulst wrote:
Ahmed Bin S wrote:Fair enough, but then that means that modern art isn't based on how good something is
And who are you to decide that something is good?
Stephan van Hulst wrote:
Can you explain to me who you think is the greater artist, Ludwig van Beethoven or Bob Dylan? Why? Who's the greater philosopher, Aristotle or Descartes?
Ahmed Bin S wrote:Fair enough, but then that means that modern art isn't based on how good something is, but the story behind it.
Paul Clapham wrote:You might think that his copy of a Vermeer painting would be precisely as good a piece of art as the original thing which Vermeer painted -- but almost nobody actually thinks that.
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:I found a YouTube link:with more portraits like that. It is like walking through an English stately home and viewing the portraits of the family line.
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Yes, you almost feel you can talk to the people, and they are so different from one another.
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Giovanni Montano wrote:Personally yes, I found it really inspiring, but... I would never dare to even compare to the real Renaissance art. Why? because the later can be read at different vertical levels*1, whereas the first to different horizontal levels
and this brings me to a sneaky question that could be a thread in the Snakepit forum, do coders believe in God?
*1interpreting literally the Indoeroepean linguistic root of art that is the same of harmony
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:Unfortunately, very few examples of portrait art from Imperial Rome survive... How the heck did we lose all that knowledge?
Paul Clapham wrote:I could never understand why the locals (some of whom might have been my ancestors) didn't ever learn how to build a temple or a hypocaust.
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