am i missing something?
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- gramme0
Marcel Duchamp realized art can be made from anything, and that anything can be considered art depending on context. This led him into a deep depression that in turn drove him to suicide.
Robert Rauchenberg realized art can be made from anything, and that great beauty can be found in the mundane. This led him to be one of the most prolific artists of the 20th and early 21st century.
As someone who sees a great deal of objective truth in the world, I think art is about as subjective as anything can possibly be. If you have an opinion about something that is being called art, good. If you can articulate your reasons for liking or disliking something, great.
Pondering whether something is art or not doesn't really seem worthwhile to me.
For the record: I can't stand the photo style that started this thread either. But I don't consider it worth bitching about. The world is full of too many horrific logos and terribly kerned headlines for me to care. :P
- ukit0
Actually Duchamp lived to be 81 and died of natural causes.
- Dodecahedron0
yes. yes it is considered art.
- i guess i missed that memoMarleyMarl
- without reviving my photo history education this style has been deemed art since at least the 50sDodecahedron
- minimal neo-realismDodecahedron
- Memo: It's art.
There.ukit - that was more like a note.iCanHasQBN
- callitropsis0
this post is art
- Needs more blue.detritus
- maybe if i take a crappy photo of it that dude will post it on his site with all the other crappy photos.MarleyMarl
- utopian0
neither.
- Fax_Benson0
depends who took it. and who's looking at it.
- gramme0
I might have confused him with one of his Dadaist contemporaries.
- bigtrick0
just 'cause it's art doesn't mean it's good art
- <callitropsis
- something we repeated over and over in art school to our relatives...vaxorcist
- ukit0
Just because you don't personally like something doesn't make it not art.
Considering it's almost 100 years after someone declared a urinal a piece of art, you're kind of late on the "this modern art is crap" bandwagon.
- it's not even modern art. it's a crappy photo.MarleyMarl
- Whatever man. whatever.ukit
- MarleyMarl0
i guess i don't understand what makes those photos so great that they are highlighted on some site over the millions of other photos people take just like them everyday
- they dont have to be great to be art, you've never seen art from a local fair?Miguex
- Miguex0
I think by definition, art is anything that provokes a reaction from you, positive or negative, by expressing you don't like it, you just might be validating their status as art pieces
- detritus0
- heyinvisiblechamber
- nice! streetfighter.iCanHasQBN
- looks like early 90's windows 3.1 game...vaxorcist
- i likerandommail
- !!!monNom
- so radmonospaced
- ali0
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder