photo: Michelangelo's Pieta, Leonardo self portrait, Jackson Pollock, John Singer Sargent, Sponge Bob, and Glen Keane's immortalized Beast.
If you stumbled on a material piece of art on the street would you stop to admire it or maybe pick it up? does it provoke serious and quality thought? Is it beautiful (even in a horrific or disturbing sense) Is it made to stand the test of time, will it last? are the materials valuable? is the content timeless, or will it only be understood within the context of what is currently in fashion? Is it created with expert craftsmanship by an artist that knows and has studied the medium? In this way, do we admire the craftsmanship of this piece? Does it add or build upon to a rich tradition of thoughtfulness and quality?
Or, is it pretentious, meaningless, self-indulgent crap that has been deemed important by a cadre of "experts" or critics that obviously know way more than you, setting the importance and price. Or, does it exploit human tendencies to be drawn toward the overtly sexual, controversial, outrageous, or the "candylike shinyness" of new technologies (that often don't look all the great after a while). Is it purely entertainment, meant to be consumed, chewed up and spewed out in a fit of laughter? the only resemblance of aesthetic being it's ability to entertain and charm (has it's place perhaps, but can hardly be viewed as a lofty achievement)
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
A Rant: The Value of Art....
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patrick, i'm weary of you comparing artists that just shouldn't be compared with each other, but i have to admit there's something i like about this entry. maybe animation should be put into a fine art category more often. it's obvious where YOU wish animation to move into, and that would be away from the entertainment world, that alone will cause a lot of people to roll their eyes at this entry. as for me, i may be slowly converting.
hmm...me thinks someone has been reminded of Ratatouille.
I think the "Is It Art" argument has been made enough times to make everything art. Maybe it would be easier to figure out what isn't art.
It seems like the more useful argument is to figure out the difference between good art and bad art.
I like being in an art form that is watched more than it's studied.
lejjjitttt. paaat smiiith.
something this rant reminded me of:
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Pat, is this supposed to be art to "everybody" or art to the "individual?"
If its to the individual, your going to get countless answers. If its to everybody, well, that will be a bittersweet argument.
Or, is this an argument about putting certain artists and artforms together. Maybe there are two brands of art lovers in this world; those who like what THEY like; and those who follow the crowd. Just a (depressing) thought.
hey emmett, what's the diff between art for the indiviual and art for everybody? my point is that there is a definitive way of judging the value of all art. i've never thought that art is that much of an individually defined thing.
I think art is an individual thing. Some "artists" have a gallery exhibition featuring fingernail and eyelash samples in little vials, others feature trompe-l'oeil paintings. In my opinion, the former is not art. Some people think it is. Freaks.
So Spongebob may not be art. It's entertaining, makes lotsa $$$ and that's why it was created in the first place.
yes there is a very simple way for judging if sg is art or not: is the creation for the message, or is the message, story etc. for the creation. if the story needs to be animated (lets talk aboute this in an animationic aspect) and u can make this message story better with animation, because it is to be animated and not to be painted or formed ina statue, and it looks like how it should, than u created art. on the other hand if you make a film because you need to and you make a story FOR your film (and not the film for the idea) than the struggeling and the need gonna be visable for everybody and its not gonna be art, maximum some well formed shit
i guess, but it's not so evident in each of the situations
I probably should have avoided making my comment. But I prefer somebody's own individual opinion of what is art, than a mass opinion of it.
Thank you, Noelle, for exemplifying that.
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