How do you define art?

[winjim]

A complete tragedy, but is being killed by a train with a spray can in your hand actually art? Isn't it just an act of stupidity?

Can't it be both?

 

[PK99]

Yebbut............it's art!

So, your priority for building design is that it looks good not that it is fit for purpose?

Ummmm,

 

[matticus]

Is the building a piece of art ? My favourite local building 😁 It's good enough to be a piece of Art....
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/11/pr...brutalism-modernism-community-wealth-building

Just so I'm clear. You're comparing this:

With this:

 

[Deleted member 49]

Just so I'm clear. You're comparing this:
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With this:
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Without a doubt !

 

[matticus]

I think the chrome bumpers are the only nice thing in that picture.

 

[slowmotion]

Can't it be both?

How about a compromise? Say lopping an ear off?

 

[Ian H]

Just so I'm clear. You're comparing this:
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With this:
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Now we need an unflattering pic of the cathedral & a decent one of the bus station to show how the camera can lie.

 

[winjim]

On the way home from school yesterday, apropos of nothing our 6yo threw some snow at a tree and shouted 'Art!'

So this is art I guess, although I'm not sure if maybe the real art isn't actually in the very act of throwing.

 

[mudsticks]

On the way home from school yesterday, apropos of nothing our 6yo threw some snow at a tree and shouted 'Art!'

So this is art I guess, although I'm not sure if maybe the real art isn't actually in the very act of throwing.

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Look out Andy Goldsworthy , is all I can say..

Definitely performance art yes, with a select yet attentive audience of one.


If it's ever queried as to why one is acting bizarrely in public places , the stock answer is
"Art project innit"

 

[winjim]

Look out Andy Goldsworthy , is all I can say..

Definitely performance art yes, with a select yet attentive audience of one.


If it's ever queried as to why one is acting bizarrely in public places , the stock answer is
"Art project innit"

The piece did evolve as her little brother joined in, but I'm afraid I didn't manage to get a picture of the augmented work.

 

[mudsticks]

The piece did evolve as her little brother joined in, but I'm afraid I didn't manage to get a picture of the augmented work.

Oh shame.

The dimension of time factors so deeply within these pieces , don't you find..?

Without it the whole concept can come across as highly constrained..

Stultified even 🤔

 

[slowmotion]

It's at times like these, badly in need of a proper art critic, that I miss a colossus like Brian Sewell.

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[Mr Celine]

£1.5m worth of concrete repairs about to start to restore this beauty.

This building is so spectacular I occasionally pay to visit. The amazing lines, angles, shapes and shadows occupy my mind for at least an hour before I have to resort to actually watching the fitba.
'Mon the Dean!

 

[Ian H]

It's at times like these, badly in need of a proper art critic, that I miss a colossus like Brian Sewell.

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The Jeremy Clarkson of the art world. More interested in his own notoriety than in any real appreciation of art.

 

[slowmotion]

The Jeremy Clarkson of the art world. More interested in his own notoriety than in any real appreciation of art.

I don't know about Clarkson, but Sewell was very entertaining. As for his appreciation of art, here's a section of his Wiki entry.........

Sewell suggested that art world insiders had felt embarrassed by a recent TV stunt in which he, a dealer and another critic had been shown a painting without being told that it had been painted by an elephant. Sewell described the painting as having no merit, while the other participants praised it.