As an artist, I have fun making things that are intentionally pointless just to see what kind of bullcrap "interpretations" people will infer in it. I know there's a name for that, I learned it in art history at some point, but I don't remember what the term is (I'll go with "art troll" happily). I did a piece once that had a small crowd around it at a little campus art show; I took a cheap $2 canvas, painted it entirely blue with a yellow line about an inch from the top edge and then glued a seashell to it which I'd spray painted silver and outlined with glitter. I did it while I was so sleep deprived I was hallucinating (I'd gone about five days without sleep) and I was just trying to get the project done on time. But these people were just huddled around it, staring intently and talking about how it "represented the hopes and dreams of life without having real power to reach them" and that it "obviously was a minimalist depiction of an ocean sunset" or any other of a dozen lines that boiled down to "I'm trying way too hard to convince myself that staring at this isn't a giant waste of time."
It was all I could do to keep from busting up laughing. It was like watching a five-year-old kid discuss in absolute seriousness the various dramas that occur among their stuffed animals and barbie dolls. I'm thinking "Oh, aren't you cute? Please tell me you didn't drive here; I'm worried you'd get distracted by the 'deep meaning' in the shapes of clouds."
As a person viewing art, I don't get most modern art at all. I like some surrealist stuff (The Treachery Of Images is one of my favourites) and I can wrap my head around even some outsider art (like Henry Darger's work). But modern art just seems like one huge trolling exercise, I see no other point to it at all.
My favourites are the "classic" painters, particularly DaVinci, Jan Van Eyke, Caravaggio, even Albrecht Durer. Great stuff, I can totally get more classical styles.
It was all I could do to keep from busting up laughing. It was like watching a five-year-old kid discuss in absolute seriousness the various dramas that occur among their stuffed animals and barbie dolls. I'm thinking "Oh, aren't you cute? Please tell me you didn't drive here; I'm worried you'd get distracted by the 'deep meaning' in the shapes of clouds."
As a person viewing art, I don't get most modern art at all. I like some surrealist stuff (The Treachery Of Images is one of my favourites) and I can wrap my head around even some outsider art (like Henry Darger's work). But modern art just seems like one huge trolling exercise, I see no other point to it at all.
My favourites are the "classic" painters, particularly DaVinci, Jan Van Eyke, Caravaggio, even Albrecht Durer. Great stuff, I can totally get more classical styles.
"Hey, Huginn... Muninn, whichever one you are, say 'nevermore.'"
"F*** you," said the raven.
"F*** you," said the raven.
