Art
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A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky. ... "They have vibrant colours, they're very expressive in the way the paint is applied, brush, spatula, her fingers. Some are Kandinskyesque and some are Pollockesque. ... "I've seen her progressing over the past year. The four she just did, each one gets better." Mr Brunelli said he had a list of 20 people, from as far afield as Japan, who wanted to be allowed first pick of any upcoming work. Despite prompting from her father, a giggling [four-year-old] Marla refused to speak about her work to BBC News Online. This[^] is an article where I had to question whether BBC was simply playing a joke. I've never thought much of modern art, and you sometimes can't help thinking the whole thing is secretly a big joke that artists are playing on the rest of the world. I think The Onion[^] could run this exact same story. ----------------------------------------------------- Empires Of Steel[^]
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A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky. ... "They have vibrant colours, they're very expressive in the way the paint is applied, brush, spatula, her fingers. Some are Kandinskyesque and some are Pollockesque. ... "I've seen her progressing over the past year. The four she just did, each one gets better." Mr Brunelli said he had a list of 20 people, from as far afield as Japan, who wanted to be allowed first pick of any upcoming work. Despite prompting from her father, a giggling [four-year-old] Marla refused to speak about her work to BBC News Online. This[^] is an article where I had to question whether BBC was simply playing a joke. I've never thought much of modern art, and you sometimes can't help thinking the whole thing is secretly a big joke that artists are playing on the rest of the world. I think The Onion[^] could run this exact same story. ----------------------------------------------------- Empires Of Steel[^]
Some people have too much money. Just think of the computer you could get with $10,000! None if this is surprising though. Today's "popular" music is mainly crap (NStink, Backstreet Bitches, etc.). You may as well bring the art industry to crap with it. Jeremy Falcon
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A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky. ... "They have vibrant colours, they're very expressive in the way the paint is applied, brush, spatula, her fingers. Some are Kandinskyesque and some are Pollockesque. ... "I've seen her progressing over the past year. The four she just did, each one gets better." Mr Brunelli said he had a list of 20 people, from as far afield as Japan, who wanted to be allowed first pick of any upcoming work. Despite prompting from her father, a giggling [four-year-old] Marla refused to speak about her work to BBC News Online. This[^] is an article where I had to question whether BBC was simply playing a joke. I've never thought much of modern art, and you sometimes can't help thinking the whole thing is secretly a big joke that artists are playing on the rest of the world. I think The Onion[^] could run this exact same story. ----------------------------------------------------- Empires Of Steel[^]
The art world has always been a joke. Just like the music world ( as someone else said ), only more pretentious. Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder
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A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky. ... "They have vibrant colours, they're very expressive in the way the paint is applied, brush, spatula, her fingers. Some are Kandinskyesque and some are Pollockesque. ... "I've seen her progressing over the past year. The four she just did, each one gets better." Mr Brunelli said he had a list of 20 people, from as far afield as Japan, who wanted to be allowed first pick of any upcoming work. Despite prompting from her father, a giggling [four-year-old] Marla refused to speak about her work to BBC News Online. This[^] is an article where I had to question whether BBC was simply playing a joke. I've never thought much of modern art, and you sometimes can't help thinking the whole thing is secretly a big joke that artists are playing on the rest of the world. I think The Onion[^] could run this exact same story. ----------------------------------------------------- Empires Of Steel[^]
"Art" requires two things: creativity and talent. "Modern Art" simply leaves out the talent part. "Benedict Arnold was a war hero too."
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"Art" requires two things: creativity and talent. "Modern Art" simply leaves out the talent part. "Benedict Arnold was a war hero too."
Well as someone who used to be a performer (hey I even did some composing and was able to talk a buddy into playing one of my pieces at a concert!), as supposedly an "artist", I'd say alot of "Modern" art/music leaves out the creativity part as well. Funny this should come up here - we had a big discussion at work about this yesterday for the better part of a half hour. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned
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Some people have too much money. Just think of the computer you could get with $10,000! None if this is surprising though. Today's "popular" music is mainly crap (NStink, Backstreet Bitches, etc.). You may as well bring the art industry to crap with it. Jeremy Falcon
Erm...you're about 10 years behind. Today's popular music is Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Delta Goodrem, Human Nature, Black Eyed Peas, Pete Murray, Norah Jones, etc. There are also remnants of the past that have somehow survived like Justin Timberlake and Darren Hayes. And how can we not include the by-products of "<Insert country here> Idols" everywhere. I'd say the list I gave is pretty mixed. Some are good (Pete Murray, Norah Jones), some are..well...only good when I was a teenager. But I would blame the popularity of certain music to the poor taste of teenagers. After all, they're the ones that voted on Channel V and MTV a lot, watched the Idols and bought the CDs ;P
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A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky. ... "They have vibrant colours, they're very expressive in the way the paint is applied, brush, spatula, her fingers. Some are Kandinskyesque and some are Pollockesque. ... "I've seen her progressing over the past year. The four she just did, each one gets better." Mr Brunelli said he had a list of 20 people, from as far afield as Japan, who wanted to be allowed first pick of any upcoming work. Despite prompting from her father, a giggling [four-year-old] Marla refused to speak about her work to BBC News Online. This[^] is an article where I had to question whether BBC was simply playing a joke. I've never thought much of modern art, and you sometimes can't help thinking the whole thing is secretly a big joke that artists are playing on the rest of the world. I think The Onion[^] could run this exact same story. ----------------------------------------------------- Empires Of Steel[^]
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A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky. ... "They have vibrant colours, they're very expressive in the way the paint is applied, brush, spatula, her fingers. Some are Kandinskyesque and some are Pollockesque. ... "I've seen her progressing over the past year. The four she just did, each one gets better." Mr Brunelli said he had a list of 20 people, from as far afield as Japan, who wanted to be allowed first pick of any upcoming work. Despite prompting from her father, a giggling [four-year-old] Marla refused to speak about her work to BBC News Online. This[^] is an article where I had to question whether BBC was simply playing a joke. I've never thought much of modern art, and you sometimes can't help thinking the whole thing is secretly a big joke that artists are playing on the rest of the world. I think The Onion[^] could run this exact same story. ----------------------------------------------------- Empires Of Steel[^]
I have long believed that modern art is a case of the gullible being conned by the pretentious --- or perhaps the other way around. The thing about many fields (art, literature, architecture, various academic fields) is that being innovative is valued above all else. Being able to paint like Michelangelo or compose symphonies that sound like the work of Mozart are not highly prized skills. Such activities are "derivative", "lacking in creativity" etc. The people doing it are generally con artists trying to pass off their work as that of the original. When a field has been thoroughly mined and good new ideas are hard to come by, things tend to degenerate into a barren search for novelty for novelty's sake. John Carson "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute--where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote ... and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him. - John F. Kennedy