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Is art deranged?

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Is art deranged?
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#21
RE: Is art deranged?
August 21, 2023 at 11:31 am
(August 21, 2023 at 11:18 am)MarcusA Wrote:
(August 21, 2023 at 6:57 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: I get something from what I get something from.  Even stuff I hate can be valuable to me if I think it challenges me, or provokes me, or gets me to think, etc.  Or maybe even just valuable in terms of investment, or social interactions.  I'll refer to something as Art if it suits me to call it Art.

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RE: Is art deranged?
August 21, 2023 at 12:22 pm
(August 21, 2023 at 6:14 am)MarcusA Wrote: Bad art is just bad art.

Yep.

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RE: Is art deranged?
August 21, 2023 at 12:41 pm
(August 21, 2023 at 12:22 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(August 21, 2023 at 6:14 am)MarcusA Wrote: Bad art is just bad art.

Yep.

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I feel like this should come with a warning along the lines of - Stay away from the brown acid.
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RE: Is art deranged?
August 21, 2023 at 1:15 pm
(August 21, 2023 at 12:41 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(August 21, 2023 at 12:22 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Yep.

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I feel like this should come with a warning along the lines of - Stay away from the brown acid.

Needs a few cigarette butts glued on somewhere. Doh
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#25
RE: Is art deranged?
August 21, 2023 at 3:40 pm
It's as much commentary as it is art.

I've never been a fan of cubism.

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#26
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August 21, 2023 at 8:30 pm
The artist is constantly under attack from philistines.
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RE: Is art deranged?
August 21, 2023 at 8:34 pm
(August 21, 2023 at 8:30 pm)MarcusA Wrote: The artist is constantly under attack from philistines.

LOL
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August 22, 2023 at 2:38 am
I wish there was far more good quality modern public art around. More statues, more frescoes, better architecture, more sculptures, and so on.
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#29
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September 3, 2023 at 2:39 am
Art has to be deranged to put up with the public.
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#30
RE: Is art deranged?
September 3, 2023 at 7:34 am
(September 3, 2023 at 2:39 am)MarcusA Wrote: Art has to be deranged to put up with the public.

"Of its own beauty is the mind diseased"

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