William Bouguereau (1825-1905)
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Posted on 06/08/2005 7:11:02 PM PDT by vannrox
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I'm not even sure how much original "art" the public buys. Especially in relation to the number of people in the US who call themselves artists.
Honestly, fine "realistic" or representational art is far different from photography. As Jacques Barzun mentions in his book "From Dawn to Decadence, Five Hundred Years of Western Culture," how can we define realism in art when the Old Masters all produced art that was "reasistic," but that was all so different from the art of the others?
Fine draftsmanship in itself does not produce great art, there has to be expressed some other quality seen or felt by the artist.
I might add that the same goes for photography, every photo, no matter who shoots it, produces accurate shapes to a degree, but only some photographers are great photographers.
So Called "Modern Art" (although I try to be objective) is more like "Physcho-Art". When artists paint "what they feel", of course your going to end up with a canvas full of (unskilled), disorganized, worthless, chaos. But is that what they were taught as students?
My last visit to the High Museum of Art, there was a display of sculptures that were done by someone LICKING chocolate. It was nauseating and a waste of museum space and my time.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a Van Gogh or Gauguin as much as anyone, and truly enjoy the better art of ordinary people who paint because they love to paint, but I have no patience for someones outward display of their personality disorders on canvas, or their sexual fetishes formed by raw body parts in edible substrate.
All that sight(ARC) made me want to do was spend money to decorate my house. So many beautiful paintings! I really loved 'The Music Lesson' by Lord Frederick Leighton. I really don't know anything about art. I bookmarked that sight hoping I'd learn something in the future! :^)
WoW!!
Just wow. Now that takes talent.
What a beautiful painting.
Bookmarked for later reading.
Oh my GOSH!!!! What a beautiful site! I LOVE it! Now I know where to order the prints that I've always wanted!
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I took an "Art appreciation" course in college years ago. One piece of "art" I had to critique, and I kid you not, was a room with live wandering turkeys. There was crap all over the place. There was an old TV console without the picture tube, old tables and chairs, couches, etc.
That was it. that was the art.
Needless to say, the critique I wrote was not appreciated. I wrote a beautiful critique of a lifesize painting which was hanging, at the time, in the LA Museum of Art, of a baby's Christening of a prominent family during the turn of the century. The expresions were captured beautifully. I got a "D" in the class. THe only D I received for a class in college.
I once spent 6 weeks working on a pencil drawing. When I finished it, I showed it to my Art 120 (drawing) instructor. He said (quoting as closely as possible) "well... technically drawn it's very good, probably better than I could do, but it's not real art, it's poster art. You can't make a living doing that."
I was so disillusioned at that point. I went on in school for a few years then quit, less than 40 credits from my degree. To this day I don't draw or paint the way I used to, I just don't have the same love for it anymore.
All Thomas Kincade's stuff is the same.
I liked it a first but now am tired of it.
Mel Gibson's highly successful "Passion of the Christ" signals Jesus' re-taking the world of artistic expression.
Revelations 21:5
The one who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." Then he said, "Write these words down, for they are trustworthy and true."
"Modern" art is dead.
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