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Discussion in 'All Things Boats & Boating' started by kach22i, Mar 30, 2006.

  1. Jolly Amaranto
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    Most intriguing.
     
  3. Will Gilmore
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    A forest planted by Kandinsky.
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    -Will (Dragonfly)
     
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    That would make a good birdcage liner.
     
  5. Will Gilmore
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    Not if you got a better resale price without the bird poop.

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    That would imply that I paid for it in the first place. Which I wouldn't. :D
     
  7. Will Gilmore
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    His many of the world's treasures have been lost or defaced because they were found in a basement somewhere by someone who just needed something to put under their parrot?
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    Or Joan Miro
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    Kindergartners do better art.
     
  10. Will Gilmore
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    Modern art isn't about the image as much as about the philosophy. That's where the kindergartners are at a disadvantage.

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  11. ImaginaryNumber
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    Serious question. When viewing modern art, what are the objective criteria for determining whether it is "good" or not?

    I've asked that of a number of my artistic friends and haven't received a reply that gave me the knowledge to determine for myself whether a particular work of modern art was "good."

    FWIW, I suspect I flunked both my kindergarten art class and kindergarten philosophy class.
     
  12. Tiny Turnip
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    I find it most helpful to think of aesthetics as rather like languages. There are lots of different aesthetics, and the more you get to know the vocabulary and grammar of an aesthetic, or a language, the more you can get out of a particular work.

    I don't find much art critique very helpful, but I do think that once an artist has 'released' a work into the 'wild', then the important thing is the meaning that the observer gets out of the work, not the meaning that the artist put in - that is a tool that helps them develop the work of art.

    Some art is about accuracy of representation, some the craft and fluency of technique, some is exporation, experimentation, some tells a story, points something out, some might be just for the joy of the colour or materials or textures.

    I find the world of car customisation a really interesting example - there are lots of hugely different aesthetics - classics, lowriders, rat rods, off roaders... and some of them seem bizarre and they contradict each other hugely: Which is better - wheels that are too big for the arches (monster trucks) or too small (low riders)? I don't think asking which is better is helpful, because they are totally different aesthetics.

    The art market, that's another thing. And I find it pretty ridiculous, hugely distorting. It is all about the market, not the art.

    My tuppenthworth :)
     
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    I had a truly amazing neighbour years back, Henck Heffener - a WWII resistance fighter, artist and collector. (you can read a little about him here: Henk Huffener’s Cabinet Of Curiosities | News Blog https://www.ewbankauctions.co.uk/News-Blog/henk-huffener-s-cabinet-of-curiosities ) His collection of art and other historic and scientific artefacts was truly amazing - far more than is mentioned in the auctioneers catalogue. He told me a story about having a casual affair with Kandinsky's mistress. He went round to her apartment, to find her in a towering rage with Kandinsky, and was hurling his stuff out of a second floor window. Henck found a Kandinsky coloured drawing lying in a puddle, and asked his lady friend if he could keep it. She couldn't care less at that point.

    Henck then went and got the drawing to show me (surely looked like a Kandinsky to me) and pointed out the area of water damage from the puddle, and where he had touched it up himself where the colours had run!
     
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    The goal of modern art is to introduce chaos.
    Chaos is the enemy of order.
    Chaos is the enemy of civilization.
     

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    In the end, Empedocles appealed to Strife to set him free of the illusions cast over him by Aphrodite. Then, he threw himself into a volcano.

    -Will (Dragonfly)
     
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