Gryzemuis on 29/3/2009 at 16:36
Quote Posted by Kolya
Now this thread definitely needs more art, everyone post their favourite piece!
I haven't found my favorite piece of art on the Internet yet.
But I've found something close to it.
Movie: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCWh3IFtDQ) "It's poetry".
Watch the movie. It explains a work by Robert Rauschenberg. I love this piece of art. Because of the idea, the execution is less important. The story is also told here: (
http://larrymarder.blogspot.com/2008/05/robert-rauschenberg-has-died-at-age-82.html)
The work I am looking for is slightly different. I've been to Silicon Valley lots of time (even lived there for a while). I visited SFMOMA once a year or so. Once I saw a work by Robert Rauschenberg.
It was something like a "poezie album". Or at least that is how we call it in Dutch. A book owned by young girls. They give their book to a friend, who gets about a week to put something nice in it. A small handwritten poem, a nice drawing, a cut-out picture glued in, etc. It's a nice idea because this way young girls build friendships. And they have something to remember their childhood friends.
Rauschenberg also had a book like that. He sent it to other artists that he was friends with. With the request for them to put a work of art in it. I kinda remember he asked them all to make a pencil drawing, or write something with pencil. After the book was full with artworks of all his famous friends, he erased all pages with an eraser. He then displayed the empty book as a work of art.
He pissed of some of his friends tremendously. :) But I think it was an awesome work of art.
Note, I might have remembered the story wrong. Or I might have read it wrong. Or I might have gotten is mixed up with the story of the Erased De Koning. But anyway, I really like the story the way I remember it. :) I'm gonna search the net a bit more.
Kolya on 29/3/2009 at 17:37
Quote Posted by LittleFlower
He pissed of some of his friends tremendously. :) But I think it was an awesome work of art.
Haha, cool guy indeed. I can understand the process of creating this book to be art, but the end product is more a statement about art, not?
Renzatic on 29/3/2009 at 18:14
Quote Posted by Kolya
I could swear we also had threads about the arbitrary value of art before.
They're bimonthly affairs. Religious threads on the other hand, well...hell. I bet there are at least 8 people reading this as we speak who either watched Zeitgeist recently (sun=son), or read about something the pope/bible said somewhere, and just absolutely has to offer up an opinion of the matter in the "I really like fast cars" thread.
Also, I admire your taste in art. I love anything to do with Art Nouveau.
Jason Moyer on 29/3/2009 at 19:23
Quote Posted by LittleFlower
Rauschenberg also had a book like that. He sent it to other artists that he was friends with. With the request for them to put a work of art in it. I kinda remember he asked them all to make a pencil drawing, or write something with pencil. After the book was full with artworks of all his famous friends, he erased all pages with an eraser. He then displayed the empty book as a work of art.
That is completely brilliant. That video you posted is awesome too - I like that De Koonig seemed to understand that the loss of whatever he gave him had to be meaningful enough to have an emotional impact.
Scots Taffer on 29/3/2009 at 23:03
Quote Posted by Muzman
I've followed "art" on and off for a while and generally enjoy looking at pictures I like, but nothing I would have compared to my favourite music or book or something.
At least I wouldn't have thought so until I saw some of the masters in person. I could scarcely believe it myself but in a room full of Monets or Rembrandts I really didn't want to leave.
Okay, I take back what I said, I've never been quite as in awed in all my life as I was when I saw David.
Not David, David, David you understand.
Also, two of my favourite pieces attached.
