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So basically it is animated GIF counter. I am not sure if its a spoof or serious art.
by jkot 11y ago
So basically it is animated GIF counter. I am not sure if its a spoof or serious art.
- TearsInTheRain 11y agoI feel like the artists think it is serious art
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- JoeAltmaier 11y agoAgreed. Why not an animated clock? Or some progressive image like Towers of Hanoi being played? Or something, oh, artistic?
- coldtea 11y ago>Or something, oh, artistic? The idea that there's something "special" that makes it "artistic" (little fluffy clouds a la Bob Ross maybe?) is the very basis of kitch.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoProjection. Artistic means creative. Duplicating a static image (dates stenciled on a canvas) digitally is pretty lame. It takes only 30 seconds thought to do better than that. You can have your fluffy little clouds thank you; I'd like to see something fresh, or reimagined.
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- chippy 11y agoIt was some well known artist who when confronted by a member of the public about some modern art saying "That's art?! I could have done that!" replied "So why haven't you?".
- drdeca 11y agoThat was by some well known artist? I was aware of the exchange, but I did not know it originated from a real conversation with a well known artist. I assumed the conversation had been written, not just arisen during conversation. Huh.
- chippy 11y agoI think it was either Dali or Picasso or Duchamp or someone like that. That I am not at all sure makes me think it's probably someone else, and that the actual words were quite different - so I gave a vague source :)
- burkaman 11y agoI've never understood that reply. I like a lot of modern art, but obviously the person in that conversation is just going to say "because it's pointless and I have better things to do, and galleries won't pay millions for my large blue squares". If you want to convince someone of the value of modern art, you need to do better than "this piece is important because the artist was the first to think of this incredibly basic idea".
- chippy 11y agoI think the key thing is not the idea, but the doing or making. A lot like our industry - ideas are cheap - it's the execution, the making, which is important. Is Twitter a stupid idea? Sure! Could my child have made it? Maybe! Why didn't my child make it? Good question.
- burkaman 11y agoIs Twitter a stupid idea? Kind of, but if I had thought of it before anyone else I probably would have given it at least a little consideration. But you're right, I probably couldn't have made Twitter even if I wanted to. I could make something that kind of looks like Twitter, but there's no way I could have executed the way they did. When people say "I could have done that" in a modern art museum, they mean they literally could have done exactly that. I could paint a stripe on a canvas in exactly the same way as Barnett Newman did. That doesn't mean it isn't art, but asking "why didn't you do it?" is missing the point. I didn't do it because, as I just demonstrated, I don't understand why it was worth doing. "I could have done that" means "anyone could have done that, why didn't the museum just make their own instead of paying millions for it?" Usually someone familiar with the artist can explain that in the greater context of the art world, it was a statement on whatever, and often those explanations make sense and make the piece more meaningful. I just don't think it makes sense to ask why I didn't do something without first explaining why anyone would do it.