Are abstract art fans stupid?

AlphaMale · #1 08-23-2008, 08:59 PM

http://www.9news.com/news/watercoole...8146&catid=337

But then again that implies art can only be good if it is made by a human. So maybe not.
What are your thoughts on Abstract art?

tplyons · #2 08-23-2008, 09:02 PM

There's beauty in everything, depending on how you look at it. Art is everywhere and nowhere depending on your state of mind.

Bad Brains · #3 08-23-2008, 09:10 PM

Some abstract art takes a lot of skill and talent, other abstract art is horribly stupid and I don't get it (like those people who just splash random colors on a canvas)

ROON · #4 08-23-2008, 09:37 PM

Abstract art is good until the artsy fartsy people start making up bull**** blurbs about it. I saw an art exhibition with a canvas that was nothing more than a square of red, and a square of blue, and the artist had made some huge deep explination about how it is all to do with duality and all this crap.

I love abstract and I love creating it, I just hate it when people talk it up to be something it can't represent.

FL Knifemaker · #5 08-23-2008, 09:40 PM

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Some abstract art takes a lot of skill and talent, other abstract art is horribly stupid and I don't get it (like those people who just splash random colors on a canvas)

So..........how do you tell one from the other??

Benjamin Strange · #6 08-23-2008, 10:10 PM

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So..........how do you tell one from the other??

Easy: some you like, some you do not.

Against Will · #7 08-23-2008, 10:16 PM

Art is like pornography, you know it when you see it, and your reaction will depend on your cultural background, what's radical to one person may seem tame to another.

I like abstract art, its the same as someone liking jazz instead of pop or mainstream rock; it's doing something beyond making a pretty melody, it creates something you've never seen/heard before, and maybe it touches something viceral in you, or maybe it just excites you because its so new.

Of course, the art world is full of pretention and wannabes, and people who get honors they don't deserve dumped on them, but its the same with any media form. From music to film to writing, anyone could come up with a list of people who they hate because everyone makes a big deal out of them and they don't deserve it (Britney Spears? Lindsay Lohan?) The art world is pretty bad by a lot of standard if just because so many people in it have cut themselves off from the real world, but there's still some vital, interesting, clever and moving work being produced.

ProgRapture · #8 08-23-2008, 10:38 PM

Abstract as in Dali? Cause Dali is awesome, but spraypaint a toilet plunger and demand money? You ruined the plunger.

fdeck · #9 08-23-2008, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker

So..........how do you tell one from the other??

How do you tell good music from bad? Poetry? Anything?

I love abstract art.

Benjamin Strange · #10 08-23-2008, 11:05 PM

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Abstract as in Dali? Cause Dali is awesome, but spraypaint a toilet plunger and demand money? You ruined the plunger.

I would hardly call Dali's work abstract. Pushing the boundaries of reality, sure, but not abstract at all.

As for painted plungers, I guess I'd just have to see it. I'm sure it's art to somebody, even if it's only the artist.

bassaficionado6 · #11 08-23-2008, 11:05 PM

At least that bear is following his dreams.

funkalicious101 · #12 08-23-2008, 11:05 PM

Some of it is okay, but crap like Jackson Pollack is just pathetic.

MysticMichael · #13 08-23-2008, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaMale

What are your thoughts on Abstract art?

Some of it is very, very cool. But it's not for everyone. If you're too literal-minded, too traditional, and/or if you need some sort of cultural consensus to define your aesthetic for you, it's gonna fly right over your head.

I've been privileged to see some great abstract modern art at both the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) here in New York, as well as the Tate Gallery in London, among other museums and galleries.

I dig it...

MM

peaveyuser · #14 08-23-2008, 11:12 PM

Dali is awesome, I went to the museum of mondern art while in NY and the art was great cept there was A LOT of crap. I mean there was just a sheet of yellow, nothing in it just yellow, for all we know the guy could have taken some yellow construction paper and frame it.

Dali's movies though jeeeeese could not watch them too weird made me uncomfortable.

FL Knifemaker · #15 08-24-2008, 05:54 AM

I'm quite content with it flying right over my head

thefruitfarmer · #16 08-24-2008, 06:08 AM

Form a fan club

FL Knifemaker · #17 08-24-2008, 06:13 AM

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Form a fan club

Wow!! That's amazing!!! I feel like I'm looking at porn

ProgRapture · #18 08-24-2008, 06:21 AM

Rofl. I guess I'm more of a fan of Impressionism and Surrealism rather than Abstract, but I won't deny that certain works of art appeal to me.

andybb1500 · #19 08-24-2008, 06:43 AM

well its a hell of a lot better than this so called painting they called art. It wasnt even a painting. someone just painted a canvas white, (no joke just a 2x2 white canvas) is it just me or is that so stupid, the thing sold for $20,000 too....

kovachian · #20 08-24-2008, 06:44 AM

I read somewhere that the Louvre had bought a Ritter Roya to put on display, I wonder if it's still there? That's definitely art even though it doesn't qualify as abstract.