Time to trot out the Dire Straits quote again:
And then you get an artist says he doesn't want to paint at all
He takes an empty canvas and sticks it on the wall
The birds of a feather all the phonies and all of the fakes
While the dealers they get together
And they decide who gets the breaks
And who's going to be in the gallery
On 12/18/2013 7:23 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
Earlier in this thread someone mentioned the example of mobiles: once
"art", now the baby-crib attachment to keep ankle-biters occupied. We
watch Antiques Roadshow on PBS. The other evening they had a Calder
miniature mobile, appraised at $1M. My mother-in-law's caregiver (NOT
a sophisticate) could not stop laughing at the the thought that
someone would pay that much for such a piece of junk.
I like the notion that Art is the use of some medium to evoke
reactions in others. To make them feel and/or think. The viewer,
reader, listener, etc. may not grasp the artist's motivations, his or
her feelings or ideas that went into some artistic expression, but
the Artist wants to evoke something. [Not necessarily disbelief and
laughter as in my example.]
One thing that makes it all so hard to define and commercialize is
that the viewing/reading/listening public may well not understand the
language being spoken by the Artist. Which is why Art Appreciation
courses used to be offered in some Universities.
stan
On Dec 18, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Bob W wrote:
From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Mark
Roberts
John wrote:
A comment was made that it's "art" when a photograph needs a
paragraph
to explain what it's about.
"The more words there are on a gallery wall next to a picture,
the worse the picture." - Gustave Flaubert
http://www.web-options.com/Rouen2013/content/P0030436_large.html
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