Is this art...?

[Karl Lenin]

It's hard to explain a blue stripe on a red field, but I find the way it expands from the top, goes down and closes very pleasant.

 

[amadeus]

I thought about becoming a modern artist...hey, I'm sure the well-meaning liberals at NPR and PBS need some crappy modern art to put up on their walls.

 

[andrewgprv]

Originally posted by thestonesfan
"Modern Art" is so painfully embarassing. Artistically, we have declined so far in the last couple centuries.

The real modern art is the cinnema. Painters are grasping at straws because their art is a dieing form. Why paint on cave walls when you can paint on canvas, why paint on canvas when you have multi-media?

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Bill Watterson says it best...

 

[Hygro]

Originally posted by Giotto
If this is considered art (and it is, Ellsworth Kelly is considered one of the greatest minimalist painters of the post-abstract-expressionist period) then yes, your's is definitly art

What's terrible is that the jpeg compression makes it hidious.

 

[Archer 007]

You mean more hidious?

 

[Dark Ascendant]

Originally posted by Hygro
What's terrible is that the jpeg compression makes it hidious.

How can it? IMO, it's too simple to be made anything.

 

[Zarn]

Originally posted by Giotto
If this is considered art (and it is, Ellsworth Kelly is considered one of the greatest minimalist painters of the post-abstract-expressionist period) then yes, your's is definitly art

If that is art, man do I have some masterpieces to sell to the public.

People are getter weirder and lazier every year.

 

[The Person]

@Azadre

If you use Photoshop, you should be able to do something better than that. Not that I'm much better (look at pic at the bottom of this post), but anybody with some skills in Photoshop can do something like that.

Here's something I came up with:

 

[Azadre]

Originally posted by The Person
@Azadre

If you use Photoshop, you should be able to do something better than that. Not that I'm much better (look at pic at the bottom of this post), but anybody with some skills in Photoshop can do something like that.

Here's something I came up with:

Did you create that without another image or did you create that from scratch like I did?

 

[thestonesfan]

BTW, Azadr, I wasn't saying your picture was bad. It's pleasant to look at, I think.

 

[Karl Lenin]

Originally posted by Azadre
Did you create that without another image or did you create that from scratch like I did?

Remember that your post was about art, while his was about photoshop skills. There is a big difference.

 

[CurtSibling]

People call me an artist, but I reject the term - for I cannot abide the mindless works associated with expressionist artists.

I am an illustrator - I work to create, not in a flurry of junk.

While the topic artwork is well worthy in it's own realm;
I find that genre is not true creativity, but more spontaneous expression.

Anyone could create modern art - by accident.

In the same manner that a pilgrimage is not a walk across the street to a local temple-
Art is not a mere bucket of paint poured on a canvas...

Just my tuppence.

 

[allhailIndia]

Meh! It looks nice and aesthetic, but if you can get an art critic to praise it you may even be able to sell it for a few quid.

 

[Karl Lenin]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
People call me an artist, but I reject the term - for I cannot abide the mindless works associated with expressionist artists.

I am an illustrator - I work to create, not in a flurry of junk.

While the topic artwork is well worthy in it's own realm;
I find that genre is not true creativity, but more spontaneous expression.

Anyone could create modern art - by accident.

In the same manner that a pilgrimage is not a walk across the street to a local temple-
Art is not a mere bucket of paint poured on a canvas...

Just my tuppence.

Anyone could create modern art by accident, like a monkey with a typwriter could write Hamlet - by accident. The perfection of the "blue stripe" painting in this thread is increadible, it's far away from random.

Imagine an artist who is about making a painting of a funny and happy clown when he is told that his mother has died. The painting ends up very sad, even if it portrays a funny and happy clown. Now remove the clown and you have what expressionism is about. It's wonderful art and in no way a mindless flurry of junk

 

[thestonesfan]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
People call me an artist, but I reject the term - for I cannot abide the mindless works associated with expressionist artists.

I am an illustrator - I work to create, not in a flurry of junk.

While the topic artwork is well worthy in it's own realm;
I find that genre is not true creativity, but more spontaneous expression.

Anyone could create modern art - by accident.

In the same manner that a pilgrimage is not a walk across the street to a local temple-
Art is not a mere bucket of paint poured on a canvas...

Just my tuppence.

From on so-called artist to another so-called artist...I totally agree.

Karl, if you remove the clown from the picture, it's a picture of nothing. That is art?

Maybe I'm just too analytical about it. If I look at a picture of a clown, I judge the skill it was created with. If the eyes aren't level with each other, I note that as a definite weakness. If a picture is a blue stripe on a red background, I see it for what it is - something a toddler could create. If there is a statue of Mary with fecal matter on it, I see that for what it is - something an unreasoning ape could create.

Why would anyone judge art according to the feelings of the artist? When I look at the astounding skill it took to render the horse's musculature in Raphael's "King George" paintings, how he felt when he did it is the farthest thing from my mind. What's more, I can guarantee he wouldn't want me to care. He would want me to judge the picture on the merits of the picture.

I suppose because I know how he felt - joy. You don't do something that incredible and not feel joy. I feel happy when I look at the little chicken scratchings I draw, I can't imagine how much greater Raphael must have felt.

Ah well. You can have your soupcans, bizarre sculptures, and the rest of the drivel known as modern art.

 

[RoddyVR]

shrink it and make it your avatar.

as stated by others, its cool.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Originally posted by Azadre
I decided I was going to lay some paint in photoshop while not being in one of the sanest moods. Do you like it, is it art?

I'm sorry Azadre but there's no inspiration in your picture. You're just copying what you've already seen. What counts in Art is the emotion and the inspiration. I see none of them. It's just a nice drawing for a T-shirt of the 80's.

 

[thestonesfan]

His picture is aesthetically competent, yet philosophically vacant. I would put it on a wall for some background color.

I look at it and think "what did he aim to create?" The answer is some globs of color, and that's what I get from looking at it.

 

[Karl Lenin]

Originally posted by thestonesfan
Karl, if you remove the clown from the picture, it's a picture of nothing. That is art?

Maybe I'm just too analytical about it. If I look at a picture of a clown, I judge the skill it was created with. If the eyes aren't level with each other, I note that as a definite weakness. If a picture is a blue stripe on a red background, I see it for what it is - something a toddler could create. If there is a statue of Mary with fecal matter on it, I see that for what it is - something an unreasoning ape could create.

Why would anyone judge art according to the feelings of the artist? When I look at the astounding skill it took to render the horse's musculature in Raphael's "King George" paintings, how he felt when he did it is the farthest thing from my mind. What's more, I can guarantee he wouldn't want me to care. He would want me to judge the picture on the merits of the picture.

I suppose because I know how he felt - joy. You don't do something that incredible and not feel joy. I feel happy when I look at the little chicken scratchings I draw, I can't imagine how much greater Raphael must have felt.

Ah well. You can have your soupcans, bizarre sculptures, and the rest of the drivel known as modern art.

With removing the clown I meant in a abstract way. Let me give you an example that is much easier to relate to, music. I believe most of us can take part of the some of the emotions in Beethoven's 5th Symphony, even if it don't have any lyrics that describes what happens, and the same delightful feeling you can get from the beauty of the Moonlight Sonata can also be gotten from the lines and shapes in Picasso's paintings or the blue stripe on a red background.

The blue stripe on a red background is like the temples the ancient Greeks built, which had the shape of the golden section. They managed to find the perfect ratio for their temples and Ellsworth Kelly did the same thing for his blue stripe.