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This Is Art (it really is)
- Thread starter PureX
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What was your point?
PureX
Veteran Member
Most Americans have no idea what art is. And this becomes apparent whenever there is any sort of discussion on this site about art. It's sometimes a bit frustrating for me, as I am an artist. A real one. Not some hobbyist pretending his hobby is "art". So I thought I'd show people some real art. Powerful art; that hopefully makes the difference apparent to them.
And you believe that our active US RF membership is reflective of "most Americans"? That's funny.
Erebus
Well-Known Member
What makes those images art?
Ahh - I see - "real art!"
Sorry, though a long time member of the Chicago Art Institute and someone who has visited a number of superb art museums in a number of countries. I'm not a big fan of your selection. But, then again, I'm not a huge fan of Picasso either.
Rational Agnostic
Well-Known Member
Roger Brown painting - "Chicago Hit By The Bomb"
Meh...it's OK. I prefer true art, like the breathtaking drawings of Cy Twombly:
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
Malcolm Morley painting - "Shipwreck"
I don't care what anyone wants to call "art". It all is merely a matter of opinion and taste.
PureX
Veteran Member
Sure, because doctors don't really know anything about medicine just because they studied it in expensive schools, and practiced it in the real world for decades. Instead it's reasonable to assume that YOU know more than they do, because , well, because you just think so.
PureX
Veteran Member
And you think you somehow know its not?
PureX
Veteran Member
Their intent to be art, before and beyond anything else. They don't exist to teach, to entertain, to be beautiful, to be feats of craftsmanship, or to be physically functional, (though they can employ any of those characteristics, or not). They exist to express the artist's unique experience of being in a way that allows the rest of us to experience it with him/her, through the art.
Yes.