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General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: mercury on July 13, 2015, 17:46:41 PM

Title: Is this Art??
Post by: mercury on July 13, 2015, 17:46:41 PM

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Having recently visited The Tate Gallery at Albert Dock in Liverpool. I came across these fine specimens of  "art"?   Is it just me? or is a pile of blankets, 2 bundles of rags tied with string and a wonky table really art?  I could see that some of the unusual objects could be deemed as art.. Bundles of old wire etc but these?   Opinions please?
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: Scunner on July 13, 2015, 17:48:17 PM
No
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: faymoore on July 13, 2015, 17:54:01 PM
Based on the following definition
ART ....."the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power"

I would say.....No

But I reckon someone  will say "yes"   :)
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: mercury on July 13, 2015, 17:54:11 PM
I
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I can see that these sort of are..... Lot of work gone into them anyway...
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: AOK on July 13, 2015, 17:56:33 PM
No 8)
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: Dennis Vint on July 13, 2015, 18:20:59 PM

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(http://s23.postimg.org/dj8jnoeav/2015_07_08_11_29_03.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/dj8jnoeav/)

(http://s4.postimg.org/cb5l1iqs9/2015_07_08_11_31_36.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/cb5l1iqs9/)

(http://s28.postimg.org/lccuxuazd/2015_07_08_11_31_44.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/lccuxuazd/)


Having recently visited The Tate Gallery at Albert Dock in Liverpool. I came across these fine specimens of  "art"?   Is it just me? or is a pile of blankets, 2 bundles of rags tied with string and a wonky table really art?  I could see that some of the unusual objects could be deemed as art.. Bundles of old wire etc but these?   Opinions please?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder..................but then, look at some of Picasso's work!    :)
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: Highlander on July 13, 2015, 18:33:04 PM
Pretentious cr*p with a capital C :(
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: Jacqui Harvey on July 13, 2015, 18:40:47 PM
A case of "The Kings new clothes"   
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: Scunner on July 13, 2015, 18:43:37 PM
Did he get them from the Emperor?   ;)
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: Jacqui Harvey on July 13, 2015, 18:54:07 PM
Yes, probably...  :) 
However, when Danny Kaye sang it, it was The Kings New Clothes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aMsgAuvEIBc
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: patrice on July 13, 2015, 19:00:38 PM
No  ???
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: sadler on July 13, 2015, 20:51:57 PM
It always amazes me where these "talented artists" are found. I am sure several of us could cobble together a creation on a par with those pictured, but nobody discovers us!!   ;)
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: WordBird on July 13, 2015, 20:52:42 PM
No.

Last time I went to the Tate Modern in London there was one exhibit which was a mirror in a clip frame.
Apparently it was so the beholder could 'divine their own interpretation' of what they saw. Um - my own face? My son has a similar 'piece' on his flat wall, should he sell it for thousands of pounds?

Another 'highlight' was one large canvas painted entirely red - no textures or shades etc - next to another which was identical apart from a single large purple stripe down the middle. These were Adam and Eve, apparently.....

 :o : :)
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: Highlander on July 13, 2015, 20:58:45 PM
These were Adam and Eve, apparently.....

I wouldn't - believe it that is  :)
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: marina on July 13, 2015, 21:20:41 PM
It always amazes me where these "talented artists" are found. I am sure several of us could cobble together a creation on a par with those pictured, but nobody discovers us!!    ;)


My three year old grandson could cobble together something better than those!    ;) ;D
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: Highlander on July 13, 2015, 21:34:19 PM
 I am sure several of us could cobble together a creation on a par with those pictured, but nobody discovers us!!"

I wouldn't bet on it sadler

 
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Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: kevin3 on July 13, 2015, 21:53:19 PM
I wouldn't pay to go and see them and I would hope my taxes and other deductions didn't go to the creators or exhibitors.

It's not art in my opinion. but people with more money than sense will ensure that it continues.
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: KKOB on July 14, 2015, 00:02:24 AM
I remember during my first year at grammar school we had an art teacher who looked like a chubby version of Quentin Crisp, and acted just like him. We had to produce a portrait which would be scored and archived for our 'O' level course work. I painted an entirely black canvas and, when asked to explain it, I said that it depicted "Midnight in the Black Forest with a blackberry eating a stick of liquorice".

I was sent to the headmaster's study where I was caned and then suspended for a week for "wasting educational resources, attempted subversion and conduct liable to cause the good name of the school to be questioned by the local education authority". Fortunately for me, on my return after the suspension, I was banned from all further art lessons for the remainder of the term.

That was the first of a good number of canings and 4 suspensions and I've never, ever, regretted leaving school on my 16th birthday.
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: SteveJ on July 14, 2015, 01:38:28 AM
I wish I'd have stayed on at school. Who knows what I could have learned in the afternoon.  :)
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: snowtop on July 14, 2015, 08:51:45 AM
It depends on how many drugs you have been on when you look at them.
The more stoned you get the more you see in them.
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: kevin3 on July 14, 2015, 09:56:15 AM

  Are you speaking from experience snowtop.?        ;)  ;)       :)
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: snowtop on July 14, 2015, 22:00:59 PM
ey up lad don't do nuffink like that.
Title: Re: Is this Art??
Post by: Colwyn on July 15, 2015, 09:39:37 AM
Good to see this artwork stimulating such a lively response.