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I don't know. By this logic ("Who's to say what is art and what is not art?") even my pictures of stick figures can be considered art. Except that no, sorry, th

by Sandman 12y ago

I don't know. By this logic ("Who's to say what is art and what is not art?") even my pictures of stick figures can be considered art. Except that no, sorry, they're not art, and I'm not an artist. Roy Lichtenstein asked himself "What is art?". And when he took pictures out of instruction manuals and newspaper advertisements (and, later, comic books) and reproduced them on canvas he said "Ok, I took something mundane, something mass-produced, something you see every day all around you, and I reproduced it here on canvas, using tools and techniques that artists use, I painted each of the Ben-day dots by hand, and is this now somehow not mundane? Is it now art?". And when I see one of his pictures a voice in my head says "Yes, this is art." When I see a canvas painted black (or a shark in a tank, for that matter), that voice says "no".

igravious 12y ago
Interesting. How about blue? No? What about International Klein Blue[0][1]? Maybe yes? Just goes to show. I would say that the first deliberate black canvas, yes. After that, no. Derivative :) Shark-in-a-tank[2]. The contemporary work of art people don't think is a work of art. I wonder why that is? The title alone is intriguing, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living". The formaldehyde gives it a distinctive hue. The vitrine is divided into three rather like a triptych. It's outrageous something gave its life in the creation of this work though people have been worked to death for far more mundane tasks. I don't like shark-in-a-tank, but it's art I'm afraid. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue [1] http://www.themilanese.com/?p=6939 http://www.themilanese.com/?p=6939 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_Death_in_the_Mind_of_Someone_Living https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_...
socceroos 12y ago
Just to clarify, you don't have to be called an 'artist' to create art. I qualify the code that ran the machine carrying humans to the moon as gloriously beautiful art - in it's own flawed way. I consider my personal programming projects as art. I try to build beautiful and functional 'things' that at the end I can stand back and admire. You can qualify much as art, but you can qualify a lot more as crap art. A lot of stuff is dismissed as 'not art' because it is completely stupid and rubbish. For example, that moronic screaming lady - or those once-popular paintings of meticulously detailed cans with labels. Ah, so many hundreds of thousands spent and now completely worthless as the wool is lifted.

by Sandman 12y ago

igravious 12y ago

Interesting. How about blue? No? What about International Klein Blue[0][1]? Maybe yes? Just goes to show. I would say that the first deliberate black canvas, yes. After that, no. Derivative :) Shark-in-a-tank[2]. The contemporary work of art people don't think is a work of art. I wonder why that is? The title alone is intriguing, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living". The formaldehyde gives it a distinctive hue. The vitrine is divided into three rather like a triptych. It's outrageous something gave its life in the creation of this work though people have been worked to death for far more mundane tasks. I don't like shark-in-a-tank, but it's art I'm afraid. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue [1] http://www.themilanese.com/?p=6939 http://www.themilanese.com/?p=6939 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_Death_in_the_Mind_of_Someone_Living https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_...

socceroos 12y ago

Just to clarify, you don't have to be called an 'artist' to create art. I qualify the code that ran the machine carrying humans to the moon as gloriously beautiful art - in it's own flawed way. I consider my personal programming projects as art. I try to build beautiful and functional 'things' that at the end I can stand back and admire. You can qualify much as art, but you can qualify a lot more as crap art. A lot of stuff is dismissed as 'not art' because it is completely stupid and rubbish. For example, that moronic screaming lady - or those once-popular paintings of meticulously detailed cans with labels. Ah, so many hundreds of thousands spent and now completely worthless as the wool is lifted.