Old news. This guy and this particular work were mentioned on the web a year or two ago, perhaps before that assuming I didn’t see it then. Some are true enough, but many like this one are false constructions.
Who here, especially artists, believes this formula is true? Is addition even the correct operation?
Haha … it’s a simplistic view. I agree, tudza, there is waaay more to being an arist than just merely being ‘able’ to do something. ‘you didn’t', to me, means that you didn’t because you didn’t live the life that created that piece of art. ‘you didn’t’ because although you may be physically able to put that yellow dot on a canvas, you didn’t because in fact, you are not ‘able’… because it is not yours to put there … it didn’t come of your unique exploration and experience. Make any sense? Juliette
Srsly, the way to stop people complaining that modern art is crap is not to make smug little cracks and sell them for a zillion bucks an inkjet-printed copy. Relevance to the world around you would be a great start, but I suppose if that were what your rich patrons wanted then you’d already be doing it.
It all just depends on whether you think skill is necessary to express things in a profound way.
People’s life experiences add up to their opinions; some opinions are insightful and others aren’t, but expressing an insightful opinion doesn’t automatically make you a poet. Expressing that opinion in a way that skillfully makes use of language to convey the truth of that opinion to makes you a poet. Otherwise its just an opinion.
So likewise you could argue that using your medium skillfully to express the truth of an idea makes you an artist.
In a lot of people’s views modern art is just like opinion, a not of points of view and no substance.
This is fantastic. Shame it’s so expensive, though. It’s just SO CORRECT!
Old news. This guy and this particular work were mentioned on the web a year or two ago, perhaps before that assuming I didn’t see it then. Some are true enough, but many like this one are false constructions.
Who here, especially artists, believes this formula is true? Is addition even the correct operation?
Haha … it’s a simplistic view. I agree, tudza, there is waaay more to being an arist than just merely being ‘able’ to do something. ‘you didn’t', to me, means that you didn’t because you didn’t live the life that created that piece of art. ‘you didn’t’ because although you may be physically able to put that yellow dot on a canvas, you didn’t because in fact, you are not ‘able’… because it is not yours to put there … it didn’t come of your unique exploration and experience. Make any sense? Juliette
Classical Art : Modern artist could do that + Yeah, he doesn’t
I COULD DO THAT
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YEAH, BUT YOU DIDN’T
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NO, BECAUSE IT’S CRAP
Srsly, the way to stop people complaining that modern art is crap is not to make smug little cracks and sell them for a zillion bucks an inkjet-printed copy. Relevance to the world around you would be a great start, but I suppose if that were what your rich patrons wanted then you’d already be doing it.
@Juliette,
It all just depends on whether you think skill is necessary to express things in a profound way.
People’s life experiences add up to their opinions; some opinions are insightful and others aren’t, but expressing an insightful opinion doesn’t automatically make you a poet. Expressing that opinion in a way that skillfully makes use of language to convey the truth of that opinion to makes you a poet. Otherwise its just an opinion.
So likewise you could argue that using your medium skillfully to express the truth of an idea makes you an artist.
In a lot of people’s views modern art is just like opinion, a not of points of view and no substance.