Excuse me while I... *HUUUUUURRK*

[Kwesi]

I am honestly not sure what to say about this but I'll say it's NSFW just to be safe...

http://kotaku.com/5336385/beautiful-woman-scary-drawing

http://kotaku.com/5381256/another-ho...at-pretty-lady

http://kotaku.com/5559854/scary-draw...scary-drawings

http://kotaku.com/5619254/oh-dear-please-make-her-stop

Wow... The lady with the pen in her hand sure looks pretty but for what she puts on the paper there are NO WORDS!! What exactly has to be done to you as a child for you to interpret things this way?! I wonder what Maki's verdict would be?

[Relic]

Meh.. The drawings are crude and edgy but I've seen far worse stuff. She's hot as heck though.

[Bruce Lindfield]

I don't see why we should care....

[Thunderscreech]

eh, i've seen worse, both female and drawing wise. What were you so scared about again?

[CrispyDelicious]

You don't venture far from Talkbass very often, do you, OP?

[champbassist]

Presenting Basquiat's Profit I:



Sold for $5.5 million @ Christie's from Lars Ulrich's collection in 2002.

It's so ugly I initially thought it was Lars' own work Then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

And, as for Maki, I'm sure he'd tap that

[Relic]

Originally Posted by champbassist

Presenting Basquiat's Profit I:



Sold for $5.5 million @ Christie's from Lars Ulrich's collection in 2002.

It's so ugly I initially thought it was Lars' own work

Then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Actually, I like that!

[blendermassacre]

Originally Posted by Relic

Actually, I like that!

not 5.5 million dollars like though, I'm assuming.

[champbassist]

Originally Posted by Relic

Actually, I like that!

That's what I said. In the absolutely objective sense, there's no beauty in that painting. But people don't think so straight. As with most modern art, ugliness is analyzed to the point of beauty.

To myself : Thus goes a line from a movie: "Bad art is tragically more beautiful than good art, because it documents human failure."

[JimB52]

I prefer pretty artists who have mastered representational drawing, like Oksana.

[Dr. Cheese]

Originally Posted by JimB52

I prefer pretty artists who have mastered representational drawing, like Oksana.

She looks just like Naomi Campbell!

[jeremyr]

call me odd, but none of those drawings disturbed me

[Relic]

Originally Posted by champbassist

That's what I said. In the absolutely objective sense, there's no beauty in that painting. But people don't think so straight. As with most modern art, ugliness is analyzed to the point of beauty.

To myself : Thus goes a line from a movie: "Bad art is tragically more beautiful than good art, because it documents human failure."

Have you guys never heard of Basquiat though? The guy was a genius in what he did. That's my wife's favorite artist. (She's an artist herself)
He could take what looks at a glance, like a meaningless piece of graffiti and inject it with depth and meaning - the more you look at it, the more it comes a live and tells a story. To me, it takes someone with a very deep mind and very complex emotion to do that. He was an amazing artist and the fact that he had passed away means there will never be another Basquiat...

If you aren't too familiar with him, there's a movie about him:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115632/

I highly recommend it

[line6man]

What's scary about her drawings?

They look terrible, but I see nothing disturbing.

[bassteban]

^agreed. looks like a 5-yr-old tried to draw a plate of fish guts.

[champbassist]

Originally Posted by Relic

Have you guys never heard of Basquiat though? The guy was a genius in what he did. That's my wife's favorite artist. (She's an artist herself)
He could take what looks at a glance, like a meaningless piece of graffiti and inject it with depth and meaning - the more you look at it, the more it comes a live and tells a story. To me, it takes someone with a very deep mind and very complex emotion to do that. He was an amazing artist and the fact that he had passed away means there will never be another Basquiat...

If you aren't too familiar with him, there's a movie about him:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115632/

I highly recommend it

Analysis FTW, right ? That's the general perspective in the world regarding art today (and has been in the 'modern' era). I fully respect everyone who thinks that way too.

Unfortunately, for me, beautiful art is apparent: perhaps I don't get the abstraction of most of today's art, but I don't find stuff like Basquiat's to be immediately apparent as beautiful. If you say so, I believe context will lead me to think otherwise.

I just prefer the works which are, at a single glance, appealing to the eye, say, baroque art.

[Relic]

Originally Posted by champbassist

Analysis FTW, right ? That's the general perspective in the world regarding art today (and has been in the 'modern' era). I fully respect everyone who thinks that way too.

Unfortunately, for me, beautiful art is apparent: perhaps I don't get the abstraction of most of today's art, but I don't find stuff like Basquiat's to be immediately apparent as beautiful. If you say so, I believe context will lead me to think otherwise.

I just prefer the works which are, at a single glance, appealing to the eye, say, baroque art.

and that's fine If everyone liked the same type of art for all of the same reasons, art would become painfully boring!

I like edgy stuff like that, but I also love the classic works of Rembrandt, Dali and even some of the creepier artists like Beksinski. Art is very varied, yet also personal in interpretation.
I dont know if I would call it "analysis" but I LOVE when I look at a piece of art, and it draws me in and makes me think. I love thinking! I don't think enough! When an artist makes me think about his work, I believe that he's done his job by giving me something to look at and sink into.

[Lazylion]

Originally Posted by Kwesi

I am honestly not sure what to say about this... I wonder what Maki's verdict would be?

We may have to wait a bit for a judgement from Maki. School just started again, y'know!

The girl is a cutie! The pics remind me of the doodles we used to do in high school.

[Kwesi]

Originally Posted by CrispyDelicious

You don't venture far from Talkbass very often, do you, OP?

I see worse on almost a daily basis but all of that stuff would get me banned... hard

[champbassist]

Originally Posted by Relic

I love thinking! I don't think enough!

LOL! And I hate thinking because I think too much Seriously!