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[BazaJT]

Ther are of course many forms of art,automotive design for example.If we're talking pictures or sculptures then I know jack about it,but I do know what I like and that is stuff that looks like what it's supposed to be and not something with a title so people can gaze at it saying things like "Ah,yes I can see exactly what the artist was going through"or other such drivel.Is a pile of bricks art?Not to me it isn't it's either a wall in the making or a wall that's fallen down

[ronnyd]

I wonder if the cleaning staff would have cleaned up the Tracy Emmin installation of a few years ago, (the one with the soiled bedsheets etc, yuk). Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder isn,t it.

[Rods2]

A good definition of art is put it near a rubbish bin and see if it's thrown out with the trash.

[Broomies Mate]

What about that Courbet picture, which is basically a shot of a woman's lady garden.  Then, following on, the exquisite piece of art.... the lass with her gash out for hours on end in front of the aforementioned 'Origins Of The World'.

I reckon if more 'art galleries' had this type of thing, I'd buy a season ticket.

[aaronjb]

How about the woman who inserts wool into her .. lady garden and then knits using it.  It goes white, red, white, red..


I'm not even joking.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Art was about beauty. For many hundreds of years, trying to capture beauty and seeing the good in the world around us. Even Monet and Van Gogh were attempting to capture that, and to a certain degree Picasso (admittedly his warped perception of beauty, but then again, everyone's perception of beauty differs, so you could argue there's no right or wrong, and no beautiful/ugly)

But from Picasso, Duchamp, Kandisnky, to Mondrian, Bacon and everyone onward was all about shock. Increasingly so as the years go on. Personally find it hugely distasteful.

To actively try and create beauty is like trying to write a good book, to add niceness, joy in the world. To try and create shock, and ill-feeling, is akin to graffiti (hmm.. Bansky, anyone?_, to actively insulting someone elderly. Any idiot can create shock, and split opinion.

Set fire to a poppy, kill someone of opposite religion, weigh some people, cultures or diability above others, throw acid in someones face, whatever. It's not hard to create 'shock', and sadly that's all 'art' is, by and large.

I've got this on my wall at home...



Of course opinion is opinion, and many would see this as boring, simple, but for my eyes this is beauty and talent

[Kevin Wood]

Maybe it's my engineering mind, but I can take or leave most forms of art. Never understood why such resources are poured into preserving ALL art, good, bad, or, frankly, sh1te, yet the greatest achievements of the human hand & mind get broken up for scrap and forgotten once they are no longer useful.

Another one bites the dust...

[Diamond Black Geezer]

The misuse of the term 'art' for one does grate on me, for sure, Kevin