Art that people rave about that's actually shit.

[cesare]

I reckon it might make a great Urban project, not just London's public art, but throughout the UK. I know we had a thread on public sculpture before, but it (IIRC) concentrated purely on modern cast sculpture (incl the statue of Eric Morecambe oop north).

That's a great idea. I think lots of people would want to be involved.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

What are trying to prove with the images you are posting?

What's wrong with the images I'm posting?

 

[ViolentPanda]

That's a great idea. I think lots of people would want to be involved.

I'd better start a thread then, before I forget!

 

[cesare]

I'd better start a thread then, before I forget!

Go for it!

 

[chilango]

What's wrong with the images I'm posting?

I'm not sure why you are posting those particular images.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

I'm not sure why you are posting those particular images.

I'm not sure why you have a difficulty with me posting them. Is there something wrong with them?

 

[cesare]

I'm not sure why you have a difficulty with me posting them. Is there something wrong with them?

The cloud and the irises weren't shit

 

[chilango]

I'm not sure why you have a difficulty with me posting them. Is there something wrong with them?

Your recent images look suspiciously like cropped close ups from larger paintings.

They're also, IMHO, aesthetically dull.

You've included no comment or opinion with them.

I feel like I'm waiting for you to deliver the punchline.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Go for it!

Done!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Your recent images look suspiciously like cropped close ups from larger paintings.

Heh, I thought the first one was a close-up of corduroy-covered settee cushions, and the second one was taken with a camera-phone about ten minutes before posting!

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Your recent images look suspiciously like cropped close ups from larger paintings.

They're also, IMHO, aesthetically dull.

You've included no comment or opinion with them.

I feel like I'm waiting for you to deliver the punchline.

seeing as the thread title is clear enough my opinion should be obvious.
Why should it matter what they are?
They're abstractions...and they are what they are.....perfectly repectable in the eyes of abstractionism and the world of Hirstian art.

Take them or leave them

Greta Taxis is responsible for one.

 

[chilango]

seeing as the thread title is clear enough my opinion should be obvious.
Why should it matter what they are?
They're abstractions...and they are what they are.....perfectly repectable in the eyes of abstractionism and the world of Hirstian art.

Take them or leave them

Greta Taxis is responsible for one.

Is anyone "raving" about these abstractions though?

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Is anyone "raving" about these abstractions though?

Who knows......
They may be the undiscovered art works of a starving artist striving to purge the depths of their angst, post economic crash and depression.

 

[chilango]

Who knows......
They may be the undiscovered art works of a starving artist striving to purge the depths of their angst, post economic crash and depression.

They're not though, are they?

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

They're not though, are they?

Who knows......
I quite like the cloud and irises too.

 

[xenon]

This thread is bollocks...

Again some peple confusing the apparent financial worth of a particular art piece, with it's artistic merit. As if peple generally go into making art motivated by money. Be it painting, music, writing, whatever. What the market, agents, chattering classes do with it creates the price tag.

Talking of artistic merit some of you are implicitly imbuing art with some fetishized notion of an ethereal elevated artefact. A particular piece of art might make you feel something powerful beyond the mundane, equally it might be dreary, dull. Art of itself doesn't intrinsically have either property. Of course there's loads of shit art, like books, music etc...

 

[Pickman's model]

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what's your point caller?

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

what's your point caller?

Have you been promoted to answering the phone now?
Cool

 

[Pickman's model]

Have you been promoted to answering the phone now?
Cool

right. so there was no real point you were trying to make with the pictures you posted.

 

[Buckaroo]

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sean scully?

 

[Pickman's model]

sean scully?

not the man who used to drink in the moon under water and the moss?

 

[Buckaroo]

not the man who used to drink in the moon under water and the moss?

Don't know where he drank but the Hugh lane gallery on Parnell square has his stuff and they've got Francis Bacon's studio as it was in London. Messy fucker, bits of the Observer and shite all over the place, he should've tidied up and learnt how to draw hands. I like Scully's paintings but they all look like cake or quilts.

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't know where he drank but the Hugh lane gallery on Parnell square has his stuff and they've got Francis Bacon's studio as it was in London. Messy fucker, bits of the Observer and shite all over the place, he should've tidied up and learnt how to draw hands. I like Scully's paintings but they all look like cake or quilts.

your sean scully born 1945. mine born a couple of decades later.

 

[Buckaroo]

your sean scully born 1945. mine born a couple of decades later.

Who's that then?

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

right. so there was no real point you were trying to make with the pictures you posted.

Clearly...

 

[Pickman's model]

Clearly...

you can't express your point then but need to pretend it's flown over everyone's heads.

 

[Pickman's model]

Who's that then?

just a man i knew from the pub

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

you can't express your point then but need to pretend it's flown over everyone's heads.

Read the thread title picky...and figure out the point....
Jaysus..do you have to be spoonfed??

 

[Pickman's model]

Read the thread title picky...and figure out the point....
Jaysus..do you have to be spoonfed??

or you could just say what the point is so me and chilango look stupid.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

or you could just say what the point is so me and chilango look stupid.

Chilango got it.....