New York woman falls, rips Picasso painting

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

One of the knee-jerk tests I use to determine whether something is ART or not is.... would it be possible for me to do it?

Sadly, art like so many other words has lost a true definition.

Porn is art, empty canvas is art, even huge clothes pens or crank shafts welded together is now considered .....art.

If I can do it or replicate it, it's not art.

How do these "Artists" even stay in business?

Government monies play a sustaining role.

IN my city and most, any public facility to be build must allocate a certain percentage of the overall budget to "art".

Along out new lite-rail line we have these huge discs with square holes in the center, I think they are suppose to represent the old wheel on trains.

At any rate, they are silly (not to mention stupid looking.)

One of the wonderful things about Russia is Art, silly examples of art are very rare but the art museums are full of ....well, art. Even the Metro is in many cases, a work of art, with paintings and mosaics.

Well, to each his own.

That's fine so far as it goes, but what is your position on seeing works that you don't understand to be destroyed?

I can't see how anyone could not find that ignorant.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

[Peikko 1,575]

Is Danno going to give us his true definition of art?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Is Danno going to give us his true definition of art?

It is a bit subjective or at least controversial. Self expression, IMO, is the basis of all art.

[Peikko 1,575]

It is a bit subjective or at least controversial. Self expression, IMO, is the basis of all art.

Art appreciation is subjective and controversial but there is a recognized definition of what constitutes art. It appears to me that some are confused between aesthetics and art.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Art appreciation is subjective and controversial but there is a recognized definition of what constitutes art. It appears to me that some are confused between aesthetics and art.

In your opinion, is graffiti art?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

In your opinion, is graffiti art?

MC is an old-world doctrinaire. I doubt she'd think so. I think some of it is, most isn't.

[Peikko 1,575]

In your opinion, is graffiti art?

That's like asking if impressionism is art.

MC is an old-world doctrinaire. I doubt she'd think so. I think some of it is, most isn't.

Not true. I think it can be, but graffit per se is not art, any more than any other style of expression is art.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

That's like asking if impressionism is art.

I don't agree. Graffiti can be art, but not all graffiti is art, IMO.

[Peikko 1,575]

I don't agree. Graffiti can be art, but not all graffiti is art, IMO.

Impressionism isn't art, it's a form of expression. Just because someone uses the impressionism style, does not mean that what is produced is art, as per your Kincaid experiement.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Impressionism isn't art, it's a form of expression. Just because someone uses the impressionism style, does not mean that what is produced is art, as per your Kincaid experiement.

Ah, ok. I can agree with that.

I was amazed to see the stark difference between Kinkade's work. He is a talented artist, but turned his art into corporation, and his paintings suffered for it.

[Peikko 1,575]

Hehehe @ myself.

[Amby 490]

I think there's a big difference between something like this

and something like this

[Peikko 1,575]

Ah, ok. I can agree with that.

I was amazed to see the stark difference between Kinkade's work. He is a talented artist, but turned his art into corporation, and his paintings suffered for it.

What he produces is, to those who buy it, aesthetically pleasing and that's great. To be honest, there is not much art that sits comfortably in the domestic setting and yet we all need to decorate aesthetically.

Unless of course you live in a mansion...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

What he produces is, to those who buy it, aesthetically pleasing and that's great. To be honest, there is not much art that sits comfortably in the domestic setting and yet we all need to decorate aesthetically.

Unless of course you live in a mansion...

Actually, his corporation filed for bankruptcy awhile back. Part of his success was he attracted a lot of Conservative Christians to his work. People who typically shielded themselves from most modern art because of it's apparent secularism. Whether he deliberately marketed his Christian beliefs or not, he brought a whole new demographic to the art collection world. I'm sure some of his finer work will be worth some money someday, but most of the pieces that people paid hundreds, sometimes thousands for, have already realized that they bought junk.