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MShipley Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 681	Art? 03/23/17 at 10:19:16 very interesting, especially with all the debate about stopping public funding...... https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/why-modern-art-so-bad#
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Reply #1 - 03/23/17 at 10:52:45

I've been seeing it like that for decades. The crap( and urine ) called art is a sad statement on society. The mental gymnastics required to look at a canvas someone has flicked and splattered with paint, creating a random splash of color and pointing at it and Ooohing and Ahhhing and declaring how it moves you and how much you wish you were so talented is just disgusting.
What a bold statement, a white canvas. I'm impressed.

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Reply #2 - 03/23/17 at 11:14:05

I wrote a paper about this for Art Appreciation.
The teacher did not care for my attitude regarding "contemporary art".

I was originally at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford for a paper on columns or some nuts and the extra credit was about contemporary art.

I saw three exhibits that really stuck out:
One was an older barber's chair covered with baby food jars of nails and an old 7" CRT television. The chair was just... ornamented with crap. The artist wrote that it described his transition from boyhood into manhood.
It looked like he covered the chair in glue and rolled it through the dump.

The next was odd bits of 2x4 scrap ends. The artist painted one side and cut them. Where ever they landed, however they landed, that became the piece.

The last was at the Museum of Modern Art in New Britain. It was an empty frame with spot lights on it. I jokingly said "They must not have set this one up yet."
A curator overheard me and said the artist intended to capture light at different times during the day.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Art? Reply #3 - 03/23/17 at 11:20:34 Such talent,, I Wonder if the "artist " sees himself as an artist or con man,
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28376 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Art? Reply #4 - 03/23/17 at 15:02:22 Music has it's crap and excellence too... Same with films,... same with any endeavour... Some of our bikes look pretty crap,.. some look awesome...
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Reply #5 - 03/24/17 at 10:12:35

Serowbot wrote on 03/23/17 at 15:02:22:

Music has it's crap and excellence too... Same with films,... same with any endeavour... Some of our bikes look pretty crap,.. some look awesome... Huh

You BET !

The Point is, the, 'ART', and Huge Gobs of Taxpayers Money, GIVEN, to PBS & Like, for, Propaganda.
Looks like it will Stop/Slow down.

Gee, would LOVE, to build me a, 'Rat' Bike,
If the Government PAID ME !!!!!!!!

Hay, just had a Idea, I could call it, 'ART'.

Grin

Their are people like, Pisacco, and Janiek, who did paintings, of a surrealistic Nature.
YET, They were skillful Artists, who did Numinous, paintings, that were, more, 'normal'. And their, 'unusual', ones, were just part of their career.

Yet the, 'unusual' ones, get the BIG Bucks.

So the Scammers, (Not Knowing the first thing about Art), decided they were going to get the BIG Bucks also.

They, STARTED, 'throwing paint', on a canvas. Dressing, Looking, Acting, 'strange'.
To, 'fool', others, (who also did not know), yet believe the 'act', and Paid.

OH, and got, FREE MONEY, from the government as well !!!!!

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28768 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Art? Reply #6 - 03/24/17 at 10:28:01 You can name your bike art, pablo, renwa or whatever... just don't ask me to pay for it.
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Paraquat Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2206	Re: Art? Reply #7 - 03/24/17 at 11:20:31 I'll make the judgement. That barber chair is sh!t. --Steve
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Reply #8 - 03/24/17 at 13:11:04

Art is like kitchens, what is appealing last for a decade or so. Should government spend money on art? I say yes even though it often makes me close my eyes. Hopefully at some point it will be replaced with something more palatable. It is a quality of life thing, I think it makes life more enjoyable. Tax money, hell, we support every fricken thing under the sun, and if you include the crap causes we allow people to reduce their tax portions by through deductions, I do mean every crap course.
If anyone is willing to simply say, all income is equally taxable and cost of acquiring income not relevant and the tax rates set based on the revised probable tax incomes, I'll listen. 'Till then, pfffft. Grin

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Trippah Serious Thumper Offline I ride, therefore I am. Posts: 2517 central Mass Gender:	Re: Art? Reply #9 - 03/24/17 at 13:14:08 I call it tax post card. All income. Multiplied by applicable tax rate based on sum of incomes. Tax Tax withheld and prepaid tax payments. Sum you owe, or sum overpaid. But back to art, it has been a difficult few decades for those of us with normal untrained senses of aesthetics.
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Paraquat Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2206	Re: Art? Reply #10 - 03/24/17 at 13:56:22 There are REAL works of art, that capture a moment in time, that were painted by amateurs, that don't look like a pile of garbage on an old chair. ... and guns, too. https://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/inside-the-armys-spectacular-hidden-tre... --Steve
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28376 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Art? Reply #11 - 03/24/17 at 14:41:47 Funding for the NEA is about $150 million per year. Trump's plane tickets will cost more than that. We have spent $400 BILLION on the F35...(and it don't like inclement weather)... Luckily,.. if we don't buy an i-phone, we can pay for our own health care... with the Republican plan... So,.. $600 per year should it...
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Art? Reply #12 - 03/24/17 at 15:38:40 Is that how it works,? Because something else is an expenditure you don't like America should continue pissing money in a hole?
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28376 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Art? Reply #13 - 03/24/17 at 16:16:20 If you're trying to lose a little weight,.. leaving the parsley off your lasagna ain't the way to do it...
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MnSpring Serious Thumper Offline Younger than most people my age. Posts: 8999 Minn Gender:	Re: Art? Reply #14 - 03/24/17 at 17:07:13 Paraquat wrote on 03/24/17 at 13:56:22: " ... ... and guns, too. https://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/inside-the-armys-spectacular-hidden-tre... Thank You ! When that Museum gets built, it will be 100 times better than Cody.
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