omg! just the other day, i was thinking of a shelf made to look like a piet mondrian painting. the black lines will serve as the dividers. the white and coloured spaces will be the, erm, spaces for things. hehe! functional and pretty. or just plain baduy. hehe!
OK, so I get the concept of a Mondrian. I even thought it was clever for a few minutes back in art school. Then I got bored and stayed bored. Same thing with Jackson Pollock. Does this make me gauche? I don't know...sometimes I think we take abstract expressionism too damn far.
I personally don't really get Jack the Dripper myself. Haha.
Anyway, I don't see why not appreciating Artist X or Movement Y is gauche--provided, of course, that the viewer has not dismissed Artist X or Movement Y in a knee-jerk reaction against the unfamiliar or the difficult.
There's no legislation for taste. The only issue for me would be that of the viewer's responsibility. If "I like (or don't like) this" is the final judgment rather than the opening statement during the moment of encounter with a work of art, then the viewer has a problem. :)
*snerk* Jack the Dripper...I like it. See, I get the concept of Pollock's work: it's not about the product, it's about the process. The hidden bits under the paint--trash, metal parts, all kinds of things. In a time when our industrial core was disappearing, process could be everything to an artist because making something by hand was a vanishing art as well as a vanishing skill. And I can even enjoy one Pollock work (or maybe, if I am very patient and good and it is close to Christmas and I want Art Santa to fill my drafting table with more paint and glue and canvas) at a time. The repetition without thought/agenda, however, bores me and puts me off
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Anyway, I don't see why not appreciating Artist X or Movement Y is gauche--provided, of course, that the viewer has not dismissed Artist X or Movement Y in a knee-jerk reaction against the unfamiliar or the difficult.
There's no legislation for taste. The only issue for me would be that of the viewer's responsibility. If "I like (or don't like) this" is the final judgment rather than the opening statement during the moment of encounter with a work of art, then the viewer has a problem. :)
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And yes, guilt and Catholicism are so closely intertwined, they're practically the same thing.
Arcimboldo was a relatively recent discovery for me--just a few months ago. :)
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why do i see gray dots in the intersection of the black lines? :S
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