Take this crappy art. - by CandyStick
Spamlet on 5/3/2006 at 11:17
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I could give a five-year-old some water colors and a brush and have him paint something, along with some nice dashes and splashes, and that would be hard shit for anyone to reproduce exactly in just the same way.
Right, but I'm not the one who scoffed that it wasn't art because he easily duplicated it in 30 seconds!
Interesting point about accidental genius often found in children's creativity- In the film "Six Degrees of Separation" of John Guare's play, Donald Sutherland is an art dealer who is utterly amazed by how much raw genius he sees in kindergarteners' artwork so he asks the teacher how it's possible that in her class (unlike the others he's visited) "every one" of them is "a Kandinsky!" The teacher's reply?: "it's knowing when to take the paper away from them."
oudeis on 5/3/2006 at 21:46
l think all modern artists should emulate willem dafoe's character in 'to live and die in LA', who burned his paintings right after he finished painting. then we wouldn't have to see them. also, because they'd have no way to make money off their work, they'd have to turn to counterfeiting to pay the bills, leading to their inevitable incineration at the hands of renegade federal agents.
Spamlet on 6/3/2006 at 02:58
Wow. I'm in awe...
So are you a professional asshole or are you working pro-bono?
Gestalt on 6/3/2006 at 03:49
I think all musicians should break their instruments and throw themselves wailing into the sea. Sculptors should smash their work and jump neck-first onto the sharp pieces. The only creative acts that should be allowed are the ones I approve of. I am clearly rational and not at all a total prick.
Spamlet on 7/3/2006 at 04:03
I can't speak for Gestalt, but I'm not personally a nun myself, and I too thought your comment was quite hilarious. I tried to reflect that in the casual "we're not worthy" tone of my mock umbrage taking, but unlike his which had a much funnier title, on reading it again it may've been too subtly placed.
For future reference though, anyone citing "To Live and Die in L.A." is automatically one cool and funny mofo in my book.
dh124289 on 7/3/2006 at 16:30
..all I see is a big blue splodge with 3 other colours filling up the rest of the canvas. And the so called masterwork looks like a child's scribble. Does nothing for me I'm afraid.
I have a massive pic of the Grand Canyon in my living room above my fire, a blow-up from an unusually clear photo taken with an ordinary camera when I toured the US for my 21st birthday. Could look at that all day and never absorb all the intricacies. Nature beats "art" any day in my book.
