tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post1123195741001124825..comments2024-03-28T19:15:34.746+00:00Comments on A K Haart: ImageA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-15562779319408927842013-01-29T16:03:24.676+00:002013-01-29T16:03:24.676+00:00Dan - I've not come across that one, but neith...Dan - I've not come across that one, but neither am I surprised. I doubt if the artists expect to be paid in non-visible money.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-41233665739236439522013-01-29T14:38:34.028+00:002013-01-29T14:38:34.028+00:00This sort of thing has reached pretty much the log...This sort of thing has reached pretty much the logical end point with the Museum of Non-Visible Art. This consists of a series of small plaques bearing descriptions of the art works (in prose worthy of Pseuds' Corner), but no actual art work at all; the viewer is asked to use their imagination. Also on display are price tags for the art, which can be best described as "Think of a number, and add a lot of zeroes to it".<br /><br />Quite frankly, I wish I'd though of this one myself! It is probably the most audacious art blag ever thought up, and quite leaves mere amateurs like Rothko in the dark. Just for the mere sight of assorted pretentious fuckwits wandering about, reading plaques and trying to look intelligent the thing is worth it; given the slim but non-zero chance that some stupid sod with more money than sense might actually buy one of the works (and in doing so help rectify their money:sense ratio) and make the "artist" rich this sort of spoof is definitely worthwhile.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618328278732100203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-83790395034300532782013-01-08T19:51:35.144+00:002013-01-08T19:51:35.144+00:00NNon - thanks for the link. Kenneth Snowman put it...NNon - thanks for the link. Kenneth Snowman put it as well as it can be put didn't he?<br /><br />Sam - I know what you mean, yet the bubble is never pricked. A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-64357528993442451742013-01-08T19:34:32.215+00:002013-01-08T19:34:32.215+00:00i am reminded of Shostakovich. His music is appar...i am reminded of Shostakovich. His music is apparently in need of explanation, and it hardly ever gets played on the radio without someone explaining the <i>meaning</i>; normally something to do with repression and irony and despair that isn't really despair, but defiance.<br /><br />These little talks often have some literary merit, and bear the same relationship to the music as Mondrian's thoughts do to his art. I prefer them to what they refer to, which in both cases is hardly worth bothering with.Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-38769013985239929212013-01-08T19:16:50.471+00:002013-01-08T19:16:50.471+00:00Mondrian's work is a piece of decorative graph...Mondrian's work is a piece of decorative graphics, nothing more. But it does not convey any deeper meaning. This applies to most of the so called modern and contemporary art. Art connaisseur Kenneth Snowman described this quite well:<br /><br />http://thethingsienjoy.blogspot.se/2010/12/about-modern-and-contemporary-art.htmlNNoNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11211745852147274205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-58218667459159374362013-01-08T18:04:46.916+00:002013-01-08T18:04:46.916+00:00Scrobs - you should have nicked a few!
Roger - I ...Scrobs - you should have nicked a few!<br /><br />Roger - I quite some of his other work, but not this stuff.<br /><br />James - I saw it on the Web (:<br /><br />Demetrius - is it as good as graffiti though?<br /><br />Longrider - yes, its a pleasant enough abstract pattern of colours.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-64699346754469946672013-01-08T16:55:41.581+00:002013-01-08T16:55:41.581+00:00Mrs L has a top that uses this design. Worn over a...Mrs L has a top that uses this design. Worn over a black turtle-neck and black jeans, it looks pretty good.<br /><br />Er... that's it, really, it's pleasing to the eye, nothing more.Longriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139120804208136012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-60880643947229401712013-01-08T15:02:23.651+00:002013-01-08T15:02:23.651+00:00The basic problem is that artists are asked to exp...The basic problem is that artists are asked to explain their art in terms understandable by others. In music, if this essentially just comes out of the brain trying to explain it in a limited verbal vocabulary may not work or may detract from the music. Maybe artists have this problem only more difficult in that very many people may expect something that just comes out of the head can be explained in verbal language. Must go, it is graffiti time.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-17131931165667087012013-01-08T12:52:47.069+00:002013-01-08T12:52:47.069+00:00I've seen that piece in the original but where...I've seen that piece in the original but where? Can't recall.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-83457709291088090672013-01-08T08:06:40.713+00:002013-01-08T08:06:40.713+00:00I agree, if the picture is any good no words are ...I agree, if the picture is any good no words are needed. I slightly enjoy Mondrian - but not much.<br /><br />What gets my goat is the 'Artist's Statement'. Are these some kind of punishment inflicted on grovelling artists by Sir Bufton Tufton types? If so they richly deserve the 'Artist's Statement Generator' web pages.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-60137700488218875752013-01-08T06:40:28.220+00:002013-01-08T06:40:28.220+00:00When I was a young schoolboy, the Headmaster put o...When I was a young schoolboy, the Headmaster put on an exhibition of Mondrians in the dining hall (this was in 1959).<br /><br />As we were all sprogs then, they were accepted as a bit of colouring, rather like any child might do in one of those squared exercise books for maths, and after they were also sniffed at by a friendly French master, from then on in, Mondrian wasn't ever going to be much of a success.<br /><br />Perhaps that was the correct age to try and understand his art!Sen. C.R.O'Blenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482646859547203051noreply@blogger.com