Indeed, this is a great thread...on a subject that pipe-smokers, by their very nature, could go on with indefinitely
What Makes a Great Work of Art?
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Aight, I am changing into my artist's shoes and headed into my studio to make some postmodernist jewelry art. Don't get this damn thread closed or deleted by the snakeman. I want to read what ya'll have to say latter. 
Good that you said, Cosmic was about to get banned.
Will you be putting it up sale? The artist shoes I meant, not so interested in the jewelryAight, I am changing into my artist's shoes and headed into my studio to make some postmodernist jewelry art. Don't get this damn thread closed or deleted by the snakeman. I want to read what ya'll have to say latter.
To put it simply, art is what you think qualifies as art. That's the beauty of art. It doesn't matter if someone doesn't "like" it. That's almost the point of art. Evoking either a shoulder shrug or a passion. Music, writing, architecture, nature, some guy beating on a garbage can, business decisions, legal arguments, pipe making, tobacco blending..... it's all art to me. At least that's how I have to look at life. Otherwise I'd just check out.... and yes, I got serious enough to be considered unartistic.
One of my customers is the National Gallery here. I help with taking down and arranging exhibitions, repair frames on old paintings etc, so I get to be around a lot of visual art, new and old.
It all speaks to me in varying degrees.
I can appreciate beaty, what I find beautiful that is, for beauty's sake, I can also appreciate composition in abstract art that isn't exactly beautiful, though I'm not very good at it.
There are myriads of ways of expression and good art can be found in all styles, genres, cultures and places.
I consider myself privileged to get be around all this art and I feel that it widens my intellectual horizon.
That said, the art that I personally like the most always tells me a story. The story doesn't have to be contained in the artwork itself. Take the cave paintings at Lascelles or any cave paintings. They invoke in my mind the images of young hunters, intimately familiar with their subjects, climbing high up in underground caves and with a few genious brushes of paint invoking majestical beasts in motion, brilliantly done and for reasons unknown to me. It fascinates me.
A cathedral like, say, Notre Dame de Paris where I have been, also tingles my mind with all kinds of stories about the church, politics, exploitation and so on.
Painters like Caravaggio, also a female artist from the same place and time whose name eludes me, Rembrandt, Bosch, Degas, Manet, William Blake. The pictures make my mind create other mental images and stories.
Yeah and I like country music.
It all speaks to me in varying degrees.
I can appreciate beaty, what I find beautiful that is, for beauty's sake, I can also appreciate composition in abstract art that isn't exactly beautiful, though I'm not very good at it.
There are myriads of ways of expression and good art can be found in all styles, genres, cultures and places.
I consider myself privileged to get be around all this art and I feel that it widens my intellectual horizon.
That said, the art that I personally like the most always tells me a story. The story doesn't have to be contained in the artwork itself. Take the cave paintings at Lascelles or any cave paintings. They invoke in my mind the images of young hunters, intimately familiar with their subjects, climbing high up in underground caves and with a few genious brushes of paint invoking majestical beasts in motion, brilliantly done and for reasons unknown to me. It fascinates me.
A cathedral like, say, Notre Dame de Paris where I have been, also tingles my mind with all kinds of stories about the church, politics, exploitation and so on.
Painters like Caravaggio, also a female artist from the same place and time whose name eludes me, Rembrandt, Bosch, Degas, Manet, William Blake. The pictures make my mind create other mental images and stories.
Yeah and I like country music.
There are many things. There many different arts and art markets. Most of the stuff I refer to as bananas, are things, events, and ideas that aren’t even for sale. Just philosophical mental masterbation.
Valid, but is music crack? Movies crack?
Music is more like weed. Movie.. Maybe coffee.
Well there is a bold statement in search of three billy goats, LOL.
Not really. It's the definition of "art". There is no concrete consensus as to what art is and what it is about. It's in the eye of the beholder. That, is what I see from most current form of visual arts, buncha garbage. Crap.
No, I totally get it. The first one is always free, next thing you know, you’re all itchy and buying Bob Ross landscapes in an alley.
Supposedly my great aunt slept with Picasso in the 1920s, at least that’s the family legend. She was somewhat famous as a dancer and Ziegfeld girl. My dad has some signed Picasso prints he supposedly have her. Might be a letter or telegram too if memory serves
Wow, and the 1920’s Picasso. That’s awesome!!! All we have in my family is a story about my mom almost touching Elvis’s jacket after a concert.
I like to think of the definition of art as being the act of repurposing something so that it not only serves a different purpose, but it either adds to or helps focus ones attention on the environment in which one lives.
Try this on...
Art is when a phenomena occurs somewhere in the creative process that elevates the created above the level of ordinary. Each of us senses this quality or phenomena depending on our age, sex, race, culture, or beliefs.
Please don't ask me to defend it. I've written so much... so many years.... and even defended it three times on here over the years over the course of dozens of pages, to the dismay of unfortunate observers.
Lets just say... it's ok if you disagree with it. Disagreeing is even built into the wording, ha ha.
But, really, just post some pictures you like.
OK. ok, Okay! Is this thread about done? I'll be out all day tomorrow, so have at it. Just don't get personal or political!
And cosmic gets a pass on number of posts in this thread only....
And cosmic gets a pass on number of posts in this thread only....
Great art is produced by a combination of Mathematics and Human Effort.
E.g. The Saturn V Rocket, the McLaren F1, Silicon Microprocessors.
E.g. The Saturn V Rocket, the McLaren F1, Silicon Microprocessors.