Now that's great art!

[cheerful_deviant]

This is why I will continue to believe that the Art community as a whole is quickly going downhill.

Admission is free

 

[Guest]

there are so many things about art that i so dont understand..

this and
the one musical movement that was total silence.. im sure someone here knows what im talking about.


it just makes me think someone's bored.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

there are so many things about art that i so dont understand..

this and
the one musical movement that was total silence.. im sure someone here knows what im talking about.


it just makes me think someone's bored.

You mean this:

News of the Weird has remarked several times on the late composer John Cage's "4'33," a 273-second "musical" number containing nothing but utter silence. In February 2004, according to a New York Times report, cuts from "White Album" by the band Sonic Youth were being listed for downloading on Apple's iTunes online store, and included was "Silence," a 63-second cut consisting of no sound at all, for which fans were nonetheless expected to pay the regular iTunes price of 99 cents. (In a subsequent clarification, a Sonic Youth spokesman said "Silence" would only be sold to purchasers who bought all of the album's cuts.) [New York Times, 2-9-04, 2-16-04]

The really funny part is that more than one band had the same "original" idea.

 

[matriarch]

This is why I will continue to believe that the Art community as a whole is quickly going downhill.

Admission is free

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.
I constantly feel a sense of deep despondency when I see some of the things that are today portrayed as art.

Many exhibitions of modern techniques and styles are a breath of fresh air, stunning, inspirational and thought provoking, but there is always someone who takes modernism that leeetle bit too far, and expects us, the paying, viewing public, to swallow it and embrace it.

I mentioned a while back when speaking about the modules I studied for my degree, my least favourite 8 months of pretentious claptrap, called Philosophy of Art. My most favourite comment during that whole 8 months became simply, 'Bollocks'. It worked for me, and going by the relieved laughter the first time I used it in a discussion group at the summer school connected to it, many people felt the same way.

Mat (Old Master, and stuck in her ways)