-O- Art Poll
cletus1 (Adrienne)
argue that music is art, which it is, but in this case I'm
referring to the visual arts. I've really been studying art
history quite intensely lately (what with my trip to France and my
art history class, which I just finished a 5-page paper for), and
even though I suck at art I love it dearly when it comes from
other people. Feel free to answer as many or as few of these
questions as you want to.
--Favorite artist(s)?
--Favorite artistic movement(s)?
--Favorite work(s) of art overall?
--Favorite painting(s)?
--Favorite sculpture(s)?
--Favorite art museum? (assuming you've been to some)
--Favorite medium? (painting, photography, 3-D, etc.)
--Any other thoughts on art in general? "Art is life and life is
art. Discuss." Are you drawn to certain types/genres/styles of
art than others, and if so, why? Uh-oh, here's the tricky part:
What is art?
--Adrienne, who really wants to make money someday just so she can
buy all the awesome paintings that she can't steal.
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"Type slowly." --Pavement
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Angela Reid
cletus1 (Adrienne) <cle...@ticnet.com> wrote in message
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> --Favorite artist(s)?
Hmm. I do like Phil Hale. We have a series of limited edition prints of
his in the living room. I don't know if he's my favorite, but I do like.
(I could only find online one of his pieces, here:
http://www.stephen-king.net/books/insomnia.html) I also like Aubrey
Beardsley
(http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/decadence/ab/beardsleyov.html) and
William Hogarth, and I've always enjoyed the Preraphaelite artists. And I
like the work of Tony DiTerlizzi (http://diterlizzi.com/index.shtml)
> --Favorite artistic movement(s)?
Well, as a whole, I'll go with Preraphaelite. Next to would be
illustration--modern fantasy.
> --Favorite work(s) of art overall?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Ecce Ancilla Domini!" perhaps. Mary looks so
thrilled. (http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/rossetti/p-8domini.htm)
> --Favorite painting(s)?
As above.
> --Favorite sculpture(s)?
Three dimensional art isn't really my thing. Steve minored in sculpture,
but it never moved me that much. We have a statue we call Batbutt in our
bathroom that I kind of like. Cast metal, made out of a baby doll and a
piece from a batman cake decoration kit.
> --Favorite art museum? (assuming you've been to some)
I find them intensely tedious. This may have to do with my inability to
take them at my own pace, since Steve will stop and do studies of them as he
goes. Given that, I like the National Gallery, since I can escape to other
places while he's drawing hands.
> --Favorite medium? (painting, photography, 3-D, etc.)
Painting.
> --Any other thoughts on art in general? "Art is life and life is
> art. Discuss." Are you drawn to certain types/genres/styles of
> art than others, and if so, why? Uh-oh, here's the tricky part:
> What is art?
I like my art representational. I've never been into abstract, even though
Steve is--quite.
Angela
colinfindlay
<cle...@ticnet.com> wrote:
> Enough about music. What about art? OK, I suppose you can
>argue that music is art, which it is, but in this case I'm
>referring to the visual arts. I've really been studying art
>history quite intensely lately (what with my trip to France and my
>art history class, which I just finished a 5-page paper for), and
>even though I suck at art I love it dearly when it comes from
>other people. Feel free to answer as many or as few of these
>questions as you want to.
>
>--Favorite artist(s)?
canaletto ... bosch ... vermeer ... titian ... goya ... magritte ...
no particular order
>--Favorite artistic movement(s)?
high renaissance ... with a bit of surrealism ...
>--Favorite work(s) of art overall?
the disasters of war ... goya
>--Favorite painting(s)?
raft of the medusa ... gericault
liberty leading the people ... delacroix
venus anadyomene (or maybe the three ages of man) ... titian
>--Favorite sculpture(s)?
three graces ... canova
>--Favorite art museum? (assuming you've been to some)
i quite like mine ... the national gallery of scotland
>--Favorite medium? (painting, photography, 3-D, etc.)
painting ...
>--Any other thoughts on art in general? "Art is life and life is
>art. Discuss." Are you drawn to certain types/genres/styles of
>art than others, and if so, why? Uh-oh, here's the tricky part:
>What is art?
the forth rail bridge ... real art ... :)
http://www.civil.rice.edu/scripts/bridges/display/bridgepage.asp?bridge=forth&opennew=2&images=1
colinfindlay
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who are you to insult my intellegence ...
--- Persephonek
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marta.
>--Favorite artist(s)?
degas, hopper, munch, monet, van gogh, pollock, wyspianski.
>--Favorite artistic movement(s)?
impressionism, Young Poland, abstract surrealism, pre-raphaelites.
>--Favorite work(s) of art overall?
>--Favorite painting(s)?
too many to mention. probably as above.
>--Favorite sculpture(s)?
the ones by camillie claudel.
>--Favorite art museum? (assuming you've been to some)
>--Favorite medium? (painting, photography, 3-D, etc.)
>--Any other thoughts on art in general? "Art is life and life is
>art. Discuss." Are you drawn to certain types/genres/styles of art than
others, and if so, why? Uh-oh, here's the tricky part: What is art?
it's very subjective. i'm not going to give any definitions here. art CAN"T
be defined.
>--Adrienne, who really wants to make money someday just so she can
>buy all the awesome paintings that she can't steal.
>
>--
>"Type slowly." --Pavement
>
ha ha. "type slowly" i LOVE that track. in fact, i've been listening to
pavement all day today.
Python King
> Enough about music. What about art? OK, I suppose you can
>argue that music is art, which it is, but in this case I'm
>referring to the visual arts. I've really been studying art
>history quite intensely lately (what with my trip to France and my
>art history class, which I just finished a 5-page paper for), and
>even though I suck at art I love it dearly when it comes from
>other people. Feel free to answer as many or as few of these
>questions as you want to.
>
>--Favorite artist(s)?
Nam June Peik is incredible, Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, van Gogh are my
favotires. Matthew Barney's work (a video artist) is pretty awesome. Non modern
- Raphael.
>--Favorite artistic movement(s)?
Pop art is wonderful. I also like a lot of Dada, but a lot of Dada sucks ass.
>--Favorite work(s) of art overall?
Warhol's Marylins. I've gotten to see them in person, and their effect is
incredible.
>--Favorite painting(s)?
Picasso's "Guitar Player".
>--Favorite sculpture(s)?
Raphael's portrait of the Madonna is breathetaking.
>--Favorite art museum? (assuming you've been to some)
Guggenheim is great.
>--Favorite medium? (painting, photography, 3-D, etc.)
I'm a stickler for Preformance Art. There's nothing better.
>--Any other thoughts on art in general? "Art is life and life is
>art. Discuss." Are you drawn to certain types/genres/styles of
>art than others, and if so, why?
anything sick and disturbing.
>Uh-oh, here's the tricky part:
>What is art?
oh god, i'm too tired to answer this.
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Ken Tough
>>--Favorite sculpture(s)?
>Hmmm... either Dali's lobster telephone or Rodin's The Kiss (corny,
>huh ?)
Rodin's Gates of Hell are pretty damn impressive.
There's also something about Michaelangelo's prisoners
of stone that make me itch for a chisel and marble (and
some talent). Or this fountain in Berlin. or a million
others that slip my mind at the moment.
>Having said that, I have never been to the Guggenheim. Wanna go there
>*a lot*.
You mean the one in Bilbao? That seems a pretty groovy to
me; one I'd love to see.
>>--Any other thoughts on art in general?
"A painter does a painting and that's it. [...] Nobody ever
said to van Gogh, 'Paint A Starry Night again, man!'" -- Joni Mitchell
>I have this real aversion to Turner. Yuuuuuck. Anything with a boat
>and or a sunset in makes me feel nauseous. There are, however, a
>number of people who really like him. Nowt as queer as folk, to coin
>a phrase.
a weird thing about sunsets. a "good one" is so gaudy that a
decent painting of it would actually look kitsch and crap.
He did manage to master the trick of light coming from the sky,
but then again he did have enough goes at it..
It's a bit like some plastic flowers. I always wondered why
anyone would make them so fake looking, but having seen tropical
flowers like ginger etc., I reckon it's actually because they're
quite realistic, but just "transplanted" from places where
they look natural, to places where they are totally crap. But
then, why would anyone ever want one anyway? Capturing an instant
and eternal image loses the transience (of flowers or sunsets)
and completely voids the exercise. Dunno, never mind.
--
Ken Tough
Montserrat
Rouge Forever
<cle...@ticnet.com> wrote:
>--Favorite artist(s)?
Dali, Patrick Heron, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcel
Broothaers, Pierre et Gilles for photos and Gilbert and George.
>--Favorite artistic movement(s)?
Am a surrealist junkie. Have a passion for YBA (Young british
artists) .... Check out anything at Jay Jopling's galleries. Am also
sucker for sexy architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright has a bit of a
smouldering thing going on !
>--Favorite work(s) of art overall?
For sheer impact Guernica. Also Gaudi architecture in Barcelona.
>--Favorite painting(s)?
Can't narrow it down.
>--Favorite sculpture(s)?
Hmmm... either Dali's lobster telephone or Rodin's The Kiss (corny,
huh ?)
>--Favorite art museum? (assuming you've been to some)
Tate, Liverpool, Tate St Ives, Am MORE than excited about new Tate
at Bankside, London. May spend the afternoon there tomorrow. We have
some GREAT modern art in the UK ! Come and visit and see our Art !
Having said that, I have never been to the Guggenheim. Wanna go there
*a lot*.
>--Favorite medium? (painting, photography, 3-D, etc.)
I particularly like 'installations' or abstract art. Some video work I
have seen recently has been poweful. I recently cried at one of them,
and had to be led away, blubbering - much to the amusement of other
gallery visitors.
>--Any other thoughts on art in general? "Art is life and life is
>art. Discuss." Are you drawn to certain types/genres/styles of
>art than others, and if so, why? Uh-oh, here's the tricky part:
>What is art?
Dunno. I was told that for something to be Art it had to be done by
an Artist. I accepted this for a few years, before my next question
arose ...."What is an Artist ?". Guess the mind likes to upset you
like that.
May I add a further question ?
What art/artist do you dislike - and why ?
I have this real aversion to Turner. Yuuuuuck. Anything with a boat
and or a sunset in makes me feel nauseous. There are, however, a
number of people who really like him. Nowt as queer as folk, to coin
a phrase.
Betsy
Rouge Forever
<Be...@spam-freerougeforever.co.uk> wrote:
> Nowt as queer as folk, to coin
>a phrase.
Phrase badly coined.
Now't *so* queer as folk.
Betsy
Sorry - I couldn't let that one lie.
glo
>--Favorite artist(s)?
has anyone here heard of Scott Mutter? Fabulous breathtaking imagery.
§§ glų §§
welts of your scorn, my love give me more
send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
it's you i've waited my life to see
it's you i've searched so hard for...Jeff Buckley (rip)
BurritoBeth
>Enough about music. What about art?
<snip>
> Feel free to answer as many or as few of these
>questions as you want to.
>
>--Favorite artist(s)?
Monet, Degas, Rembrandt, Van Gogh
>--Favorite artistic movement(s)?
Impressionism and Post-impressionism. My French teacher in high school is all
about Impressionism. In our curriculum we spent at least a month on it.
>--Favorite work(s) of art overall?
Monet's Waterlillies or any of his paintings from his home in the north of
France (the name of which escapes me).
>--Favorite art museum? (assuming you've been to some)
The only one I've been to is the Everson here in Syracuse. It's very nice and
has a modern feel to it.
>--Favorite medium? (painting, photography, 3-D, etc.)
I like painting and photography. With both you capture what is really there
but in two different ways and in a multitude of expressions (if that makes any
sense). What I think I'm trying to say is that with a photograph you capture
what is actually there - the light, the dark, the shadows, etc. With a
painting, you capture all of that but you can take one aspect and make it the
central theme of the piece. But now that I've said that, I guess you can do
that in photography as well. Thppt. If anyone can make sense of that bless
your heart.
>--Any other thoughts on art in general? "Art is life and life is
>art. Discuss." Are you drawn to certain types/genres/styles of
>art than others, and if so, why? Uh-oh, here's the tricky part:
>What is art?
Art is what you make of it. And so is life, oddly enough. :)
Beth
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BurritoBeth
>has anyone here heard of Scott Mutter? Fabulous breathtaking imagery.
My roommate had a poster of his this year. It was the one of the guy walking
on the ocean with the escalators. I saw a few other ones in the store the
other day and I'm thinking about buying them for my apartment. That guy rocks.
Midnight Tree Bandit
(Adrienne) cried out in the night, letting loose a great wail, followed by the
following rational thought. It was kinda wierd.
: Enough about music. What about art? OK, I suppose you can
:argue that music is art, which it is, but in this case I'm
:referring to the visual arts. I've really been studying art
:history quite intensely lately (what with my trip to France and my
:art history class, which I just finished a 5-page paper for), and
:even though I suck at art I love it dearly when it comes from
:other people. Feel free to answer as many or as few of these
:questions as you want to.
:
:--Favorite artist(s)?
Magritte, Dega, Monet, Manet
:--Favorite artistic movement(s)?
Impressionism, some of the surrealists
:--Favorite art museum? (assuming you've been to some)
MOMA and the Hirschorn.
:--Favorite medium? (painting, photography, 3-D, etc.)
Paint.
:--Any other thoughts on art in general? "Art is life and life is
:art. Discuss." Are you drawn to certain types/genres/styles of
:art than others, and if so, why? Uh-oh, here's the tricky part:
:What is art?
_ _
EBN-OZN: "All artists potentially are the victims of their own desire to be
unique. Just observe it, don't fight it. Work it. Work it." (AEIOU
Sometimes Y)
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Angela Reid
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<snip>
> EBN-OZN: "All artists potentially are the victims of their own desire to
be
> unique. Just observe it, don't fight it. Work it. Work it." (AEIOU
> Sometimes Y)
If Steve were the type to scream like a girly in a gush of fan enthusiasm,
he would did I read him this. :)
Angela
Thomas Dempster
cletus1 (Adrienne) wroted,
<snip art not music not art>
Being a career musician, I must say: they are the same thing. Trite as it
sounds, it is true -- art is painting with visible color, or lack thereof;
music is painting with audible color, or lack thereof.
> --Favorite artist(s)?
Seurat, Dali (before he went ultra-narcissistic and pop), Ernst, Pollack.
On a good day, Brueghel.
> --Favorite artistic movement(s)?
Probably the cubist movement. Followed by the minimalism (i think it was
called that or along the lines -- ab ex, maybe?) concept of the mid-late 50s
and early 60s.
> --Favorite work(s) of art overall?
Thinker, Rodin (come on -- it's too ubiquitous not to like!)
Inescapable History, Mel Chin
Jung's Razor, Mel Chin
Elephant Celebes, Ernst
Lavender Mist, Pollack
coupla Chagall paintings I don;t know names to, and the Sistine Chapel
high-art graffiti by Frere Michelangelo Buonarti.
> --Favorite painting(s)?
see above
> --Favorite sculpture(s)?
see above
> --Favorite art museum? (assuming you've been to some)
Well, not NCMA or Weatherspoon (in Grensboro, NC -- supposedly one of the
largest collections of Warhol and Matisse in the south) -- I'd have to vote
for MOMA and the Chicago Met.
> --Favorite medium? (painting, photography, 3-D, etc.)
Though photography is grappling and not without its charm, brushtrokes -- or
slapping or what not -- the liquidy stuff on the cloth thingy -- (homage a
Homer)
> --Any other thoughts on art in general? "Art is life and life is
> art. Discuss." Are you drawn to certain types/genres/styles of
> art than others, and if so, why? Uh-oh, here's the tricky part:
> What is art?
Ahh!!! Philosophy 103!! Freshman year flashback!!
Naturally, we are all drawn to certan things; others are acquired. I am
naturally not attrracted to conceptual art or sculpture, but I have learned
to appreciate it and value it as a form of expression. Ahh, yes,
expression -- the great levelling buzzword of the arts -- expression.
My philosophical view stems partly from an epistemological one held by a
dead fella by the name of John Cage. He saw all as art, everything as
expression, all as music of some form. The familiar piece 4'33" -- in which
the performer is silent for that allotment of time -- is a testament to the
powerr of air conditioning units, cough drop wrappers, and sneezing of the
audience. Very zen approach...
Though I don't see expression as an arbitration, I don't see it like Don
Senor Cage did either. There are limits -- but by gum and by golly those
limits are far away. I use them now and again, and I use them a lot in my
own music, but in my perception, I always keep an ear out for the colors --
as well as I keep my eyes open for the expression with visible color, or
lack thereof. I stay as objective as I can and view any type of
expression -- within minimal bounds -- as art.
"It's not quite a mop, not quite a puppet, but man -- heh heh eh heh heh --
To answer your question truthfully, I don't know." H. Simpson...
> --Adrienne, who really wants to make money someday just so she can
> buy all the awesome paintings that she can't steal.
For Prylosec's sake, don't become a musician! :)
tom
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Elin Sjølie
on Tue, 16 May 2000 13:47:51 -0500, "cletus1 (Adrienne)"
>--Favorite artist(s)?
Oh... Hm.... John William Waterhouse and Harriet Backer methinks.
>--Favorite artistic movement(s)?
Uhm... I don't know. Pre-Raphaelitic I think
>--Favorite work(s) of art overall?
Ophelia by John William Waterhouse
Vinternatt i Rondane by Harald Sohlberg
Thorvald Boeck's library by Harriet Backer
>--Favorite painting(s)?
See abowe.
>--Favorite sculpture(s)?
Don't have any.
>--Favorite art museum? (assuming you've been to some)
The National Gallery in Oslo. It's free!
>--Favorite medium? (painting, photography, 3-D, etc.)
Paintings, I think.
Elin
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Pixel =^..^=
I'll have to apologize in advance
for NOT seeing the original post in this thread
as i have just joined this NG.
But Tori is one of my heroines
and art and music is life . . .
and i try to perform both,
so i'd like to add some thoughts with quotes,
from some of my fave artists and musicians, if i may
in response to:
Midnight Tree Bandit 's <mtba...@rmta.org> message
news:tvr6isoj676u0ik32...@4ax.com...
> :--Any other thoughts on art in general? "Art is life and life is
> :art. Discuss." Are you drawn to certain types/genres/styles of
> :art than others, and if so, why? Uh-oh, here's the tricky part:
> :What is art?
"Just feeling is a subversive act. Expressing it is rebellious."
~ Jeff Buckley
"Music is much bigger than the music industry will ever be.
It's not an artform, it's a force of nature."
~ Jeff Buckley
"The cathartic part (is) in the essential act of singing.
When is it that the voice becomes an elixir?
It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that."
~
Jeff Buckley
"It is my deeply felt belief that art-making
is a built-in psycho-social cultural imperative"
~Al Hansen
(Fluxus and Happenings artist, and grandfather to Beck)
In response to the statement "I see art as a magic act."
"Yeah it is. Like anything creative, where you are drawing
something extraordinary out of the ordinary, there is a magic there.
. . . I think it's fantastic, but everyone has a sense that they could
do it themselves. They can see a piece of themselves in it. That's
what attracts people to it. So it's more of a collaborative magic trick."
~ Beck
"A culture without art is prison. I think there's something interesting
in the corporate work ethic that implicitly believes, or says, that art
and music are somehow superfluous. It doesn't build nations and it
doesn't feed people, but it does something beyond that which is
nearly as essential. It won't keep your body alive like bread and water
would, but it will sustain you in another way more extensively than we
would ever think."
~ Beck
Thanks for reading . . .
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