6.10.2006
So wanna here 'bout art?
Well there is something about art, and something about looking at art, and something about money. Money should never ever... Ok well money shouldn't have even existed in the first place, but given that as of right now the world would quite simply stop functioning without money, money should keep its hand off art. In fact the big enemy is not money, but popularity. And provocation. Ok guys, we got the message, artist's crap is more valuable then gold, but that's been (notice how I used the present perfect, and not the past simple) half a century ago.
Last year a 10 meters high pussy hair was proudly displayed on the streets of Milan. WTF? The excuse by the artist's side was that it was a provocation to society. Are you making fun of us? It's not a bad taste problem, we are open enough to look at a vagina (pubes, actually) without being shocked. It's a you-are-dumb problem, and with you whoever accepted to display your work.
An exerpt from gruppogarage's manifesto:
Eroticism is the highest level a human being is able to reach. High poetry is eroticism. Impressive architecture is eroticism. The finest photography is eroticism. Eroticism is art, and art is eroticism in all of its aspects.
Given that, for how art has developed in this last century, anything is potentially capable of being art, what makes a work of art a good work of art? It's not the esthetic. esthetic has nothing to do with art. It's not how pretty it is or how nice the colours are. It's about transmitting feelings and emotions. It doesn't matter if you like it or not, but how much it tells you.
And that's the point. It doesn't have to be a good feeling, nor you should be an expert to judge. The simple fact that some still images can communicate such a complex sensation says it all. You can actually be sure that a work is a great piece of art only when you hate it. The more you hate it the more the artist has stroke.
I would like to end this post talking about the condition of the artist to produce art, but since it's late and I've already done it I will desist.
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Well there is something about art, and something about looking at art, and something about money. Money should never ever... Ok well money shouldn't have even existed in the first place, but given that as of right now the world would quite simply stop functioning without money, money should keep its hand off art. In fact the big enemy is not money, but popularity. And provocation. Ok guys, we got the message, artist's crap is more valuable then gold, but that's been (notice how I used the present perfect, and not the past simple) half a century ago.
Last year a 10 meters high pussy hair was proudly displayed on the streets of Milan. WTF? The excuse by the artist's side was that it was a provocation to society. Are you making fun of us? It's not a bad taste problem, we are open enough to look at a vagina (pubes, actually) without being shocked. It's a you-are-dumb problem, and with you whoever accepted to display your work.
An exerpt from gruppogarage's manifesto:
10. Eroticism (understood in the classic meaning of the term) is the artistic representation of the human capacity to invest in his affective aspect
11. Erotic art has always been part of human creative production, representing in artistic form the possibility of the species to continue to exist
Eroticism is the highest level a human being is able to reach. High poetry is eroticism. Impressive architecture is eroticism. The finest photography is eroticism. Eroticism is art, and art is eroticism in all of its aspects.
Given that, for how art has developed in this last century, anything is potentially capable of being art, what makes a work of art a good work of art? It's not the esthetic. esthetic has nothing to do with art. It's not how pretty it is or how nice the colours are. It's about transmitting feelings and emotions. It doesn't matter if you like it or not, but how much it tells you.
Ja did you see that site?
izabelka yees
Ja and?
Ja what do you think?
izabelka I'm not sure...there is something weird and... unnatural in those pictures.... in most of them women look like his slaves...
izabelka but i have no idea about photography
And that's the point. It doesn't have to be a good feeling, nor you should be an expert to judge. The simple fact that some still images can communicate such a complex sensation says it all. You can actually be sure that a work is a great piece of art only when you hate it. The more you hate it the more the artist has stroke.
I would like to end this post talking about the condition of the artist to produce art, but since it's late and I've already done it I will desist.
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