The same can also be said for the first modern art pieces I saw in a gallery. They were also displayed as though they were true works of genius. In the same way I don't like all 'classic' art (although it's rare to see something where you can't appreciate the artist's talent, even when you don't appreciate how they used it), I don't dislike all 'modern' art. The idea that a like or dislike is governed by the label its given is ludicrous when it is far simpler to understand that someone simply does or does not like something. -- Veggie Dave http://www.iq18films.co.uk "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine
ogden posted: As one who is considerably short-sighted, I follow the theory that Monet was also severely myopic, and simply painted *exactly what he saw*. It's certainly plausible; his proportion and scale are very close to how they should be, but his outlines and details are blurry and indistinct. If I take my glasses off I could interpret my view of the world as an Impressionist vista.
ginge posted: I can't draw flies. I have not a shred of artistic ability whatsoever; my freehand drawing is on a par with a particularly untalented 2-year old. I suspect my lack of ability to appreciate art is linked to this. No great loss.
See now we're getting somewhere. UKRM's best artists in the world, so far. 1 Rolf Harris 2 Monet 3 Duchamp (with his piss-poor fountain) 4 Possibly somebody in Wigan, because they didn't make a wall, and wasted Fr Jack's taxes. 5= Darren 5= A 2 year old. 6 Anybody who has stuff in the Tate Modern, because Veggie Dave said it's 99% shit.
Top of the list has to be anyone who does those crappy paintings of spitfires flying over battleships at Jutland and stuff.
And the other 1% is actual shite. http://www.art-mode-design.com/post.php?p=49 Artist's Shit Piero Manzoni 1933-1963 italian pioneer of the Arte Povera, The Manzoni father had a preserve meat factory named "Manzotini". One day, the father and the son dispute and the industrialist launches: "You are an artist of shit !". Manzoni takes his/her father with the word and shit in limp (90 on the whole). He deposited thirty grams of excrement per box to sell thereafter these boxes with the price of thirty grams gold according to the value of the rate of gold on which "shit of artist" in various languages was registered. These boxes all were now sold and are found in various collections of art in the whole world and are negotiated at a high price, except however for some which probably exploded because of the corrosion of the box and the pressure of gas. Since its creation, this series was disseminated in the whole world. Today, the value of a (...) Aujourd'hui, la valeur d'une boîte est d'environ 30 500? ( 25 000 à 35 000 US$).
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