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Fifteen years of Ringo Starr's computer art
- egypturnash 5y agoThose thumbnails are like, the platonic ideal of what I was expecting when I clicked on that link. Wow. I would say "don't give up your day job, Ringo" but the fact that he is already insanely famous means that he will probably sell some of these things for more than I will ever make with my art in my lifetime.
- filoeleven 5y agoI agree about the art, especially at those prices, but I will also note that all proceeds from sales are donated to a charitable foundation.
- Blackthorn 5y agoI'm absolute garbage at visual art, and I think your take is super unfair. They're all super weird but, notably the newer ones, also really competent in a way that this newbie would never be able to replicate. Kind of like the work he's actually famous for, now that I think about it.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago> They're all super weird I made it as far down as the revolver tied in a knot with IMAGINE written on the barrel. I’m not sure you could come up with a more uniformly ham-fisted image of “peace” if it was plastered over a peace sign… So I’m not knocking the art or technical ability or anything. I don’t care. But I personally wouldn’t describe anything there “super weird”.
- bitwize 5y agoLook again. It WAS plastered over a peace sign. Never change, Ringo.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoI know. I’ve been working on making more subtle jokes :) I was hoping someone would go look and make that comment though.
- Blackthorn 5y ago> I’m not sure you could come up with a more uniformly ham-fisted image of “peace” if it was plastered over a peace sign… It's Ringo Starr! He might as well have invented this cliche.
- stemlord 5y agoWell he did do the work of helping to make The Beatles what it became, so it's not entirely unfair.
- 2bitencryption 5y agoI think part of this art is the story behind it. I'm sitting here trying to imagine Ringo Starr on a computer in MS Paint (or whatever he used) drawing blobby spacemen, and that alone makes me want to have one hanging on my wall.
- nine_k 5y agoI would say that this is what sets apart "classical art" and "modern art". "Classical art" is a technical feat that produces emotions in you through its execution, through the beauty of the "art piece" itself. Beatles' songs were closer to "classical art"; I want to hear "Yesterday" because of its melody. "Modern art" is an otherwise uninteresting material piece with a large bunch of metainfo attached: the author's personality and connections, the stories behind its creation / exhibition / resale, being in the circle of those who know about this particular piece or author, a practical joke or an ironic reference that the art piece or its metainfo comprises, etc. This metainfo is what produces the emotions, not the object which formally is the "art piece". Ringo's gallery items are firmly in the "modern art" category.
- nerdponx 5y agoI've heard this summarized before as "product" versus "process".
- tessierashpool 5y agoexcept anyone with the slightest background in art history can tell you that those metadata mattered immensely for "classical art" pieces at the time that those pieces were made. and indeed even today two pieces of equivalent beauty and craftsmanship will not sell for the same price if one is a Michaelangelo and the other comes from a less famous artist. I'm sorry, because I'm sure you didn't realize this, but your taxonomy breaks down to "pieces I like, for which the metadata is old," and "pieces I dislike, for which the metadata is recent." edit — or, at best, "pieces I like, with a continuous aesthetic tradition, which made quality easy to evaluate, for which the metadata is old," vs "pieces I dislike, created after that continuity disintegrated, which made quality very subjective, for which the metadata is recent." because there was a massive break in that continuity, and there is a real distinction between modern and "classical" art (at least in the European/Western tradition), but it just doesn't have anything to do with the metadata.
- funstuff007 5y agoThese are near-perfect NFT targets.
- mwattsun 5y agoRingo was a much better drummer than I appreciated as demonstrated by Grahame The Drummer. I realized that the stylings of Ringo made me love these songs as much as anything else https://www.tiktok.com/@grahamethedrummer/video/7024195168324668678 https://www.tiktok.com/@grahamethedrummer/video/702419516832...
- tejohnso 5y agoCan we say that Ringo's professionalism and artistic choices were at a higher level than his technical skill? It seems as though he made great choices, but I get the sense that he's nowhere near the level of a Bonham or Peart technically.
- tasha0663 5y agoI feel like that's comparing apples, oranges, and bananas.
- jason0597 5y agoAt the end, The Beatles weren't a masterfully technical band. It wasn't being the greatest at the guitar or the bass or the drums that made them great. It was being creative that made them great. Hey Jude is an incredibly simple and easy to play song yet it is infamous
- hericium 5y agoThe pace at which they were releasing new albums was also unrealistic.
- saghm 5y agoI've always considered songwriting to be an independent skill playing music. Some musicians are just so good at writing songs that it almost doesn't matter whether or not they're above average in their musicianship. I don't think anyone would rate Bob Dylan as an exceptional singer or guitarist, but he's unquestionably one of the most prolific musicians of the 20th century. I'm probably an even worse singer and guitarist than Dylan, but if I could write something as good as Like a Rolling Stone, there's no question I would try to perform it myself and have it released before giving the song to someone else.
- peanut_worm 5y agoClassic. Yer Baby and Bad Finger are my favorites.
- oksurewhynot 5y agoHow long before these get minted as NFTs?
- tasha0663 5y agoThese make rounds every once and a while, and I've dunked on his art before, so I clicked around a little more and landed on this one that had some pictures of Ringo actual holding a print of it. https://www.ringostarrart.com/product/eye-lidded-man/ https://www.ringostarrart.com/product/eye-lidded-man/ Scale and viewing conditions matter, and that'd look fine hanging in a music room. It's obviously not for everyone, but at $1600 to have a signed Ringo it's not bad. Definitely a conversation starter. No idea what the vaguely defined Lotus Foundation is, what it does, or how well, but he's not pocketing the money, so there's that.
- MrsPeaches 5y agoBob Dylan as well: http://artcelebs.com/bob-dylan/ http://artcelebs.com/bob-dylan/ Seem to be a few run by the same company/gallery: http://artcelebs.com/art/ http://artcelebs.com/art/
- animanoir 5y ago"Art".