Re: What Is Art To You?
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:34 am
Wasn't that van Gogh?Dot wrote:Then there was the other guy that cut his ear off his "art" is a bit bizarre/sloppy to me.
Saw his "Starry, Starry Night" at the French Masters exhibition in Canberra in 2010. Until then I had not grasped the significance of Neil Diamond's song of the same name...
I think Salvador Dali's "Persistence of Time" (the droopy clocks) is one of the greatest surrealist paintings!
(You can now buy a real "droopy clock" which you can hang over the edge of a shelf... and it gives the correct time!)
However, you will note that both above artists used framed canvas - which they purchased - to daub their colours.
Those who daub/scribble on other people's walls/cars/whatever without the owner's permission are vandals... no matter how good the work otherwise appears.
Where they have the owner's permission, it is called a "mural" and (mostly) these are respected by the vandal-scribblers.
(There are thoughtless idiots in every cultural grouping - unfortunately.)
An inner-city high school in Melbourne had a mural on an external wall untouched for 20 years. The students of successive years were proud of "their" artwork, which featured the work - and likenesses - of some students from the era.
Then along came some thoughtless scribblers who 'tagged' it multiple times with their names - ruining it. The work could not be restored for both technical and financial reasons, and had to be painted over. Now the wall has to be regularly repainted, because a blank wall is an open temptation to other vandals!
I shall now put away the soap-box...
