State of the "Art"

Poll: What do you think about "art"? You do not have permission to vote in this poll.
Modern art can suck it! Old school all the way! kinky thoughts about Rembrandt	37.50%	6	37.50%
Old school can suck it! I can do modern crap to! kinky thoughts about Damien Hirsts cristall skull	6.25%	1	6.25%
I don`t care about it (But some popcorn would be nice)	31.25%	5	31.25%
I am unsure (but yeah...popcorn)	12.50%	2	12.50%
Dave can shut up and go teach some pre-schoolers how to use finger colors!!!	12.50%	2	12.50%
Total		16 vote(s)	100%

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State of the "Art"

DavidS Offline

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RE: State of the "Art"

(07-06-2013, 05:29 PM)Bridge Wrote: most of the big name art critics have no idea what they're talking about so one thing leads to another and bam, you're famous. It's just politics.

EDIT: Only temporarily of course.

Yes and no in my opinion. It surely hasn`t to do much with art anymore (and some might say this without the "anymore") but it is less the lack of knowledge than trying to make business. Buying art from a gallery happens mostly because of prestige. You buy expensive art in order to "show your riches" much like rich merchants and people of influence in olden times let artists like Vermeer make paintings for them. You can compare the modern gallerist to a real estate agent.

I like Sturgeons Law. That said, my poll was more of a joke and I thought it would show.

So here we go...theory number one:
Art does not need to please its audience, yet art needs an audience.
Art is communication.

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07-06-2013, 06:28 PM