types of "art" you think are a crock of shit?

[Anonymous]

Besides sketch33 that is


abstract art? performance art? still lifes? collage? photo-manips? fetus in a jar? anything?

[James]

The kind of art where people just throw paint at the canvas, money feces-style.

[FS]

Dadaism. Paint splashed on cloth while extorting various grunts. Geometric shapes. I mean, it can't be easy to draw straight lines and round circles by hand, but that doesn't mean it's art.

[Ninjavenom]

Jasper Johns' stuff, new wave art like that tomato soup can thing.

[theapportioner]

Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer... babies' play, biznachos.

And that Giger guy? What a loser.

[James]

Oh, and FS, thanks. I couldn't remember the word for that type, but that's what I was talking about.

[Sketch33]

Personally, I never really enjoyed Art Deco. I don't follow performance art much, but I thought that piece where the guy (I don't recall his name) sat in the glass case tearing pages from books was quite pointless. And many years back one of my instructors showed us a video of a "60-Minutes" broadcast about the current state of art (at that time). One wealthy woman, if I remember correctly, bought both a 6'x7' blank white gessoed canvas, and a dish of candies for some ungodly amount of money. The idea behind the canvas was you could run your hand over it and feel a slight texture, making it art. The candy dish had the candy stacked in a specific pile. She explained that you could take and eat a piece of candy, and as long as you replaced it in the same spot from a bowl of extra candies kept in the stand you didn't violate the integrity of the sculpture. To this woman, that was art. to me, it's taking advantage of the elderly.

[Anonymous]

fascinating

[FS]

Originally Posted by Jamesman

Oh, and FS, thanks. I couldn't remember the word for that type, but that's what I was talking about.

Dadaism isn't the paint-sploshy thing, but it's a form of art where the artist takes ordinary everyday household items and declares them art, basically. Like, a toilet turned upside down, or a broken bikerack. It was kind of an attack on other art forms. :semi-artstudent

I forget what exact name applies to the "RAAAH! PAINT! DAMN YOU, CANVAS!" style of art. Post-expressionism, something like that?

[MrAdventure]

FUNDED FAGGOTRY.

People can convincingly obsess over the composition of everyday objects, taking the curve of a toaster and making it the birth of a galaxy. Slowly running their fingers along a heating vent over and over, trying to express the stimulation as though you could never feel it like they do. I wish I was born with that insightful logic, that barrage of sensory delights could have been my golden ticket into high society.

I GUESS I HATE THEM.

I FIND CONCEPTUAL ART AWKWARD.

A guy named Rudolf Schwarzkogler began cutting away at his penis with a knife, piece by piece, in the name of art.

He bled to death.

Or this fellow, Vito Acconci, who masturbated under a ramp, over which visitors walked. Other features include him dressing his penis in doll's clothing and biting himself all over.

Some chap named Chris Burden crucified himself on a Volkswagen, and he found the courage to crawl across a parking lot littered with broken glass.

SO I ALSO HATE THEM.

[James]

Dadaism. Paint splashed on cloth while extorting various grunts.

I thought you were describing Dadaism here. Whoopsie.

[Anonymous]

The one called 'olive on orange' or summat which was the top half of the canvas painted olive and the lower half painted orange.

An then it sold for like a billion dollas

[The Unseen]

you all forgot rap music

[Anonymous]

Thank you, "The Unseen," from Durham, NH.

[Sketch33]

FS: Abstract Expressionism. Jackson Pollok was well known for it.

MrAdventure: I agree with every bit of what you said. I never thought I would see that happen. As Chojin said, fascinating.

[Anonymous]

As I said, shut up.

[tenno]

i think dropping a bull from a crane is 'high art' whereas drawing a picture of a naked woman is 'low art'




calvin and hobbes is 'true art'

[Sevenjin]

There was this one "artwork" I saw that sold for like a billion-kajillion dollars too.

It was a blank piece of canvas with just a single stroke of orange in the bottom left hand corner.

The explanation was:

"It is not what the artist did do but what he didnt put in this artwork that makes it such a memorable piece."

???

[The Retro Kat]

I personally dont like still life's of things, its boring. Art should be unique, not things.

[Tree]

Emo
Nothing worse than squeeling punk rock about love and sadness.
That, my new acquaintances, is the lowest form of art, presented by no talent ass-clowns. The only thing worse would be the shitty portraits of people you see hanging in the local library. You know the ones that look like a retarded version of the intended subject?

[glowbelly]

i absolutely adore pollack. adore him. LOVE HIM. ok? ok.

i don't like poetry all that much. and as far as visual arts go, i have a really hard time with abstract sculpture. i mean, it's cool, but sometimes it's so devoid of feeling that it seems you are just staring at what the object is made of...then again, maybe that's the point.

[Rez]

THOMAS KINKAID.

can't even spell his name right, i dont give a shit. that man makes art for money. fuck him.

it's great to make money from the art you do. but to paint JUST to make money? creating a bunch of dull-ASS paintings of rich people's backyard and selling it to calendars and bored people for a bahjillion dollars? the man has no talent. and i wouldnt mind it so much if he actually felt what he was doing. but he doesn't.

bastard.

[Helm]

Any art that while being introvert, demands to be treated as socially beneficial. I don't mind introversion for introversion's sake, but it better be stated clearly.

[hardcrow]

Originally Posted by FS

Dadaism. Paint splashed on cloth while extorting various grunts. Geometric shapes. I mean, it can't be easy to draw straight lines and round circles by hand, but that doesn't mean it's art.

Dadaism=Art to destroy art.

It was making fun of art. A wierd concept.

For me Bob Ross-esk, carbon copy themes piss me off.

[hardcrow]

Originally Posted by MrAdventure

FUNDED FAGGOTRY.

People can convincingly obsess over the composition of everyday objects, taking the curve of a toaster and making it the birth of a galaxy. Slowly running their fingers along a heating vent over and over, trying to express the stimulation as though you could never feel it like they do. I wish I was born with that insightful logic, that barrage of sensory delights could have been my golden ticket into high society.

I GUESS I HATE THEM.

I FIND CONCEPTUAL ART AWKWARD.

A guy named Rudolf Schwarzkogler began cutting away at his penis with a knife, piece by piece, in the name of art.

He bled to death.

Or this fellow, Vito Acconci, who masturbated under a ramp, over which visitors walked. Other features include him dressing his penis in doll's clothing and biting himself all over.

Some chap named Chris Burden crucified himself on a Volkswagen, and he found the courage to crawl across a parking lot littered with broken glass.

SO I ALSO HATE THEM.

Not a fan either...good post.