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This thread just keeps getting better."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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Leaning towards illustration..Originally posted by tooblue View PostGreat avatar Viking ... now, is that art or illustration?"The first thing I learned upon becoming a head coach after fifteen years as an assistant was the enormous difference between making a suggestion and making a decision."
"They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression."
"I like to bike. I could beat Lance Armstrong, only because he couldn't pass me if he was behind me."
-Rick Majerus
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Correlation has its shortcomings but it has nothing to do with that painting.Originally posted by Moliere View PostI'll admit I'm having a little bit of fun with it, but it is a horrible painting. Could I paint it? No, but that doesn't make it decent.
My vitrol is at the black/white nature of the people in the painting. It stinks of correlated hogwash. Plus, he put all the non-whites in the back, which speaks volumes.“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
-- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"The first thing I learned upon becoming a head coach after fifteen years as an assistant was the enormous difference between making a suggestion and making a decision."
"They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression."
"I like to bike. I could beat Lance Armstrong, only because he couldn't pass me if he was behind me."
-Rick Majerus
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Sweet!Originally posted by Mormon Red Death View Postgo with this

That's a cool bulldog, helping out his buddy like that.
Not like some of those other dogs... buddy fawkers for sure."We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school."
-Thucydides
"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."-Miyamoto Musashi
Si vis pacem, para bellum
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Mormon Red Death and I went to the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (does that mean we're a couple now?) and there's plenty of stuff that defies conventional definitions of "art" more than the Campbell soup cans (I'm thinking of the cow wallpaper and the pattern-print of "Natalie".)
Which all supports tooblue's point that it might not be up to us to determine whether or not McNaughton's work is "art".
My view is that it is indeed "art." I just like to mock the message."More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
-- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)
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Straight from facebook:
Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss
There's three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, everything else is cream cheese. --Coach Finstock
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The last one is not "art" because it was not finished. A primed canvas carries no narrative, no intent, and the reception is different from that of a work of art, especially in the age of mechanical reproduction.In his [Arthur Danto] 1981 book, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Danto pondered the problem of indiscernibles some more and produced a thought experiment. Imagine a bunch of identical canvas squares painted red, each of which has a different meaning, history and name. One is a historical painting of the Red Sea. Another is ''Red Square,'' a punning Communist tribute painted in the manner of Malevich. A third is ''Red Tablecloth,'' by a sour disciple of Matisse. Another is a canvas primed red by Giorgione. They all look alike, but some are art and others are not.
Is this art?

Duchamp called this old urinal "Le fontaine."
How about this?

What about Botero's take?

What about this?
"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon
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McNaughton is back....and this time it's not so subtle!
http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork...rtpiece_id=419
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