"Comedian" is a piece or art valued at US$120,000.
What do you think?
Before Duchamp's "Fountain" it may have had some worth but
isn't it just too derivative and too silly for the 21st Century?
https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/47093/1/artist-maurizio-cattelan-sold-banana-duct-taped-to-a-wall-miami-art-basel
@wolfgang59 saidGreat thread! The most innovative thing about this piece of Art is that it doesn’t need expensive treatments involving magnifying lenses or X-rays in the process of preserving it. You just pop down the local supermarket and buy a fresh one.
"Comedian" is a piece or art valued at US$120,000.
What do you think?
Before Duchamp's "Fountain" it may have had some worth but
isn't it just too derivative and too silly for the 21st Century?
https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/47093/1/artist-maurizio-cattelan-sold-banana-duct-taped-to-a-wall-miami-art-basel
So what is Art? 🛌
09 Dec 19
@drewnogal saidPerhaps it's like beauty - it's in the eye of the beholder, but it also takes talent.
Great thread! The most innovative thing about this piece of Art is that it doesn’t need expensive treatments involving magnifying lenses or X-rays in the process of preserving it. You just pop down the local supermarket and buy a fresh one.
So what is Art? 🛌
@wolfgang59 saidSome works of art you respond to wherever you see it, you recognize and respond to it. Some art is easier identified in connection with something or some environment. If you saw driftwood on the beach, maybe you wouldn't look at it twice but on his wall, you noticed it and liked it.
Back in UK a friend had a piece of driftwood on his wall.
That was (in my opinion) art.
Perhaps the "talent" was in identifying it?
That's how I feel anyway.
@torunn saidI spent 4 years in art college, painting and drawing were important to me from childhood, it was the first time anyone recognised any sort of talent in me, but it took a nose dive when I had my kids. There just wasn’t the time to devote to it or a spare room in the house for it.
Perhaps it's like beauty - it's in the eye of the beholder, but it also takes talent.
Art helped me through the angst of adolescence but then I discovered a thread and a momentum in art college and I was off. The need to create a thing of beauty did not appeal to the tutors there, anything precious or stylised was treated with scorn. It all became something called Work and the students who devoted themselves to their work by spending long hours in the studios were the ones who got a first in their degrees.
There was also an importance about the thinking around the work and the tutorials provided an opportunity to try to talk through what the subconscious drive had produced in the work.
09 Dec 19
@drewnogal saidYou can take it back up anytime you wish, only you control that now.
I spent 4 years in art college, painting and drawing were important to me from childhood, it was the first time anyone recognised any sort of talent in me, but it took a nose dive when I had my kids. There just wasn’t the time to devote to it or a spare room in the house for it.
Art helped me through the angst of adolescence but then I discovered a thread and a momentum ...[text shortened]... provided an opportunity to try to talk through what the subconscious drive had produced in the work.
-VR
09 Dec 19
@very-rusty saidI had the luxury of a large studio space in college and liked working on pieces in excess of 4 feet square and space to work on a few pieces at a time so ideas bounced back and forth. A tutor said that college would help build up the momentum of work but that if I stopped it would be hard to get back onto it which has been true for me. It’s also a very slow start to return to using small drawing books again and as for the subject matter well, I can’t just take up where I left off at the age of 40?
You can take it back up anytime you wish, only you control that now.
-VR
Art ..... requires more thought than action where I’m concerned.
09 Dec 19
we live in a strange age...art is what can be sold as art in the capitalist Environment.
So if a guy tapes a banana to a canvas and is able to sell that for 120.000$ then he was at least artistic in the sales department.
If I find a nice stone and bring it back home...it may not be art but it touches something in my inner self.
In German the word is "Kunst" and derives from "können" (can, being able), so human intervention is a necessary criterion for something being art. If picking up some natural stuff already has to do with some special ability is for everyone to judge.
09 Dec 19
@ponderable said"If I find a nice stone and bring it back home...it may not be art but it touches something in my inner self...
we live in a strange age...art is what can be sold as art in the capitalist Environment.
So if a guy tapes a banana to a canvas and is able to sell that for 120.000$ then he was at least artistic in the sales department.
If I find a nice stone and bring it back home...it may not be art but it touches something in my inner self.
In German the word is "Kunst" and de ...[text shortened]... picking up some natural stuff already has to do with some special ability is for everyone to judge.
Perhaps we need to have it in our inner selves to be touched by art. I believe that's where it is.
09 Dec 19
@ponderable saidThose million monkeys typing for a million years ...
we live in a strange age...art is what can be sold as art in the capitalist Environment.
So if a guy tapes a banana to a canvas and is able to sell that for 120.000$ then he was at least artistic in the sales department.
If I find a nice stone and bring it back home...it may not be art but it touches something in my inner self.
In German the word is "Kunst" and de ...[text shortened]... picking up some natural stuff already has to do with some special ability is for everyone to judge.
When they have finished the complete works of Shakespeare
what if their next project is the Mona Lisa?
Would it still be art?
09 Dec 19
@wolfgang59 saidIsn't art - if you are an artist - your own, original expression? Not a copy of someone else's?
Those million monkeys typing for a million years ...
When they have finished the complete works of Shakespeare
what if their next project is the Mona Lisa?
Would it still be art?