Art Styles.

[Talentless]

What do you like?
What do you not like?

I like art that looks like effort was put into it. Art that displays the creators efforts.

A hate collages of photographs, Dada stuff and works like those of Pollack's.

I'm not an art expert, but I've seen pictures of paintings (which may not do some, or all, paintings justice.

Architecturally, I hate the futuristic designs in Asia.

I like Art Deco.

Impressionism is ok, though I've never been much of a fan of Monet.

 

[Klostrophobic]

I like minimalism above all else. Unstructured abstractism is awesome too. Post-modernism is bomb biggity. So is deconstructuralism.

I don't know any more art styles with fancy names that I like so I'll just leave it at that.

 

[Duke]

I agree with you in general, T, though I have to say there are certain abstract painters I like. Personally, I think Pollock is one of the true hoaxes perpetrated on modern intellectualism. He sucks, and they bought it.

K, the term is "deconstructivism", and it sucks. It's nothing other than academic-intellectual post-rationalization carried to an absurd extreme. Deconstructivists would rather spend 3 weeks working up some obscure, inscrutable methodology, then spend 45 minutes explaining it to you, rather than just admit "I thought it lookd cool", which is what it comes down to in the end anyway.

Also, decons are even more useless without something normal around that they can feel superior to.

 

[Sage]

As with Talentless, I like art that has effort put into it. "Ooh, I'll just flick some paint onto a canvas and call it art!" is stupid. It should have a lot of effort put into it, and it should be something that the artist is enjoying doing, and should personally and genuinely be nice-looking to the artist (instead of putting in something that's not to their own tastes just to satisfy the tastes of others). I guess the word I'm looking for is purity?

 

[Talentless]

I think that I'm similar to Duke when I say I'm sick of hearing artist's say their pieces have messages, or the peculiar interpretations of others.

"The line represent the struggle man feels in trying to break from his conformity to soiciety. The u represents all of us in this struggle. And the lowercase speaks to the futility we all feel. The blueness is the classic representation of our emotions. I cry now. A true masterpiece."

u​

 

[emad]

i'm starting to take interest in photography.

for traditional arts, i wish ppl would stop saying sculptures of naked men are "beautiful works of art". It was funny because a few days ago in my friend's Art History class, he had a 3 hour lecture and for the entireity of the 3 hours, they were analyzing a sculpture of a naked man...seems sorta gay to me that he stayed for the length of the lecture

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by Talentless
I think that I'm similar to Duke when I say I'm sick of hearing artist's say their pieces have messages, or the peculiar interpretations of others.

"The line represent the struggle man feels in trying to break from his conformity to soiciety. The u represents all of us in this struggle. And the lowercase speaks to the futility we all feel. The blueness is the classic representation of our emotions. I cry now. A true masterpiece."

u​

Agreed. 👍 Of course, some things about art really are symbolic, but many artists just do something and then attach some random meaning to it afterwards. "I'll splash some red paint over in a corner, and it'll represent pent-up hatred!"

Yeck.

 

[milefile]

There's a lot of great art that I wouldn't want on my wall. But then there is no reason something has to please me to be great.

In a superficial sense my "favorites" would have to be surrealists like Miro and Klee, and a couple impressionsists, namely Van Gough, possibly the purest painter, ever.

Too much realism doesn't do it for me; we have cameras now. To much abstraction doesn't do it either; it's inaccessible and, like neon duke said, basically a hoax.

The idea is to see something you've never seen before, to walk away with something you didn't have before you beheld the work, even if it is a painting of, say, a vase of sunflowers, or a pair of shoes. A great artist captures the essence of things, even (maybe especially) mundane things, and reveals the truth in them. That is to say, he reveals the beauty in the all things (it is already there), even if it doesn't please the eyes. The world reveals itself to us through art.

Painters should never explain their art. If they need words that bad they should've been poets.

Minimalism in painting is crap. It does nothing more than sitting in a park and staring at the sky can do, but it does it in a synthetic, usually geometrical, way. It attempts to represent the world of ideas without the world, without things. In other words, it is not great art. Minimalism in music and design is excellent, though.

 

[Talentless]

I was born on the 90th anniversary of Van Gogh's death.

 

[Talentless]

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/

 

[Talentless]

One of my favorites. Though, it seems to appear differently on some pages.

The Mill

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/1650/

 

[Fidel Castrol]

I'm not much of an art critic, but I know what I like, but I can't put it into words.

Modern art is always a prardox; the people who say "a 5-year-old could do that" are just jealous they couldn't get some dolt to shell out $1000 for their children's work.

Some times you see some thing rather minimalist, or post-modern (I have no idea if I'm using those words correctly) and it actually looks kind of cool for a moment. It's like going to The Olive Garden and ordering spaghetti; if I can make it myself, it's not worth paying someone else for it.

Photographs are more interesting to me. If it's not heavily manipulated, then it's ok to me. But if it's tricking me because I know damn well it doesn't really exist, then I feel cheapened by the expereince.

There's some great works of the past , but part of me says there's no great art left to make anymore, it's all been done before.

 

[milefile]

I've recently (last 14 months or so) begun to appreciate other's photography as art, mostly because I have gotten into it myself and understand it.