Rogue Keeper on 30/5/2006 at 08:21
Quote Posted by Para?noid
I don't know if you've noticed, but certainly here in England the majority of art galleries are free entry. There is no art that starts in some kind of upper echelon that mere mortals cannot attain, it is available to anyone at any time. You're talking out of your ass.
I'm not talking out of my ass, I'm studying mass media science. ;)
Social observers contrast the "high culture" of elites to popular culture, meaning goods and activities produced for, and consumed by non-elite people - common masses.
Yes, you have a point that masses have also right for their own culture, but kunst experts would argue with you that if an element of "high art" (such as Bach's Ein Feste Burg, Goya's Third of May or Donatello's David, but also modern art) is commercially exploited and/or spreaded to masses via mass media channels, it becomes part of popular culture (merchandising, T-Shirts, TV and Radion Ads, food packages, billboards, pop music CD cases etc.) and this process seriously degrades it's aesthetic value, because the artwork is pulled out of it's original context and becomes a massively produced, common low-cost product.
You may start with (
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465026095/104-4004506-1453567?v=glance&n=283155) this book to recognize how various form of art and culture are connected with different social classes, and more. Or with some textbook on basics of aesthetics.
May the galleries be free entry, but their visitors create some readable sociodemographic profile. Different types of culture have diferent primary audience, because they have different requirements for innate aesthetic sensitivity, education and experience living in a given social environment for it's full understanding and appreciation. Call them "snobs" if you wish. Personally I can't imagine you would regularly attend performances of London Symphonic Orchestra, even though you may like to listen to classical music from your CDs. No uber attitude here, I'm a commoner like you. I'm far from a regular visitor of galleries myself.
demagogue on 30/5/2006 at 18:26
That's pretty fucking sweet godismygoldfish.
Such a great ambivalence in those paintings... There's plenty of artists that can visualize nightmares, but this guy makes it look so natural and inescapable, like that's just the way life goes sometimes and you can only sit back and watch it.
Didn't like the digital work as much.
And if you're going to be passing out books, BR796164, should recommend Adorno's The Culture Industry.
Rogue Keeper on 31/5/2006 at 07:24
Quote Posted by godismygoldfish
Zdzislaw Beksinski
A decent one... but not Giger. :p
Yeah demagogue, even those culture experts recommend different authors according to their preferred canons.
