Maybe I'm not a cultured as I though. :- /

by Elsewhere 49 Replies latest jw friends

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  Mulan

  Me neither, elsewhere. Modern art is lost on me. I think Picasso's stuff is crap. I keep waiting from someone to talk about "The Emporer's New Clothes". Or "You're kidding, right?" They all just look like a big joke to me.

  We were in an art gallery in Hawaii one time and the woman there was excitedly showing us Tony Curtis' art. I laughed and said................." too much paint, no style, and childish". She fumed away and left us alone. Obviously, I know nothing about art. I admit some of his stuff is good, but most of it looks like globs of paint unless you stand WAYYYYY back.
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  gitasatsangha

  the Watchtower Society had thoughts on this.
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  ApagaLaLuz

  If you dont get picasso then give Salvador Dali a try. His stuff is the most deranged art I have ever looked upon

  When in Spain this past month, I had the chance to go to the Nacional Museo de Arte. They have an entire floor of Picasso's work, and a whole wing dedicated to Salvador Dahli, it was a pleasant surprise. They had a special section with some work by an artist, believe his name was Luis Banuelo. He was good friends with Salvador Dahli. I watched an old silent film that he produced staring Dahli. Some of the special effects were waaaaaaay ahead of their time. They could easily be seen in a horror flick with today's technology. Talk about deranged....... there's a scene where they do a close up of this girl's eyes and then slit her eyeball open with a razor. I tell you, I've seen anything like that in any film ever. It was an absolute treat :)
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  Valis

  *LOL* gita..

  BTW, people often confuse what they know about art with thier own opinion of art. Two different animals entirely! I've had the fortune of taking art history classes and one thing I notice is the progress of time, more societal frredom, etc that lend to art becoming more abstract and less of the realism vein..It gives me a greater appreciation of differeng styles and genres..As Jesus says...Its all good!

  Sincerely,

  District Overbeer
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  bisous

  Crap?
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  Mulan

  The first 4 are good. The last ones CRAP.
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  ApagaLaLuz

  LOL Mulan! The last one is actually a HUGE Mural. This was one of the ones I got to see last week. I thought the samething. I figured I must have been missing something since there was a crowd of about 30 people staring at it.

  One thing I noticed about Picasso is that he went throught different phases of his style. Much of the collection I saw was created through out the year of 1937. It seemed he was going through the phase of painting and drawing humans, horses, and bulls. And almost all of them share the "horned" tounge in every picture.

  This last picture was interesting though because he took pictures of himself during teh creation, so there are black and white photos of teh begining drawing, down to the actual shading and painting and completion. That was fun :)
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  bisous

  Here's some background info on that "crappy mural":

  http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/guernica_nav/gnav_level_1/1bombing_guerfrm.html

  http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/guernica_nav/gnav_level_1/2process_guerfrm.html

  http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/gmain.html

  Picasso's work did evolve throughout his lifetime and he proved his expert talent at all genres (Impressionism, Realism, Classicist, Modern, Abstract) and even created genres (Cubism).

  IMO, It is a bit of a generalization to label his entire body of work as crap based on one phase that doesn't resonate with you as a viewer. But to each their own .... one of the beautiful things about art is that there is something for everyone.
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  Shutterbug

  People who pay/fund artists perpetuate creativity regardless of whether you like it or not.

  No argument here, and it is their money, they can spend it anyway they wish.

  Mulun I agree, the first four are beautiful, the last ones can chairtably be called "creative".
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  Mum

  Else, I know how you feel. I've always had difficulty understanding a lot of modern art, which an old friend of mine describes as a "farce."

  If your home is decorated, you are far more cultured than I.

  If I don't know why people like paté, am I uncultured?

  There are poets I can't understand. Does this make me uncultured?

  Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. Art is as Art does.

  My favorite artist is Rembrandt, widely believed to be the greatest artist of all time because he could paint expression in the human face as no other. He confined himself, as was the custom in his day, to painting living beings and objects the viewer could identify.

  If you are uncultured, I say what the world needs now is more uncultured ex-JW's.

  Regards,

  SandraC