New York woman falls, rips Picasso painting

[Mousse]

I will never understand this type of art, this doesn't strike me as a special painting, but what do I know.

I'm in the same I don't know much about art, but I know what I like camp. The painting had me scratching my noggin and saying, "This is art?" I see it kind of like people saying how caviar is an acquired taste. In my book, if something is good, it's good at first blush and deeper examination.

 

[Heilage]

Art is whatever one think is beautiful, so very individual.

 

[localoid]

Art is whatever one think is beautiful, so very individual.

Even that simple definition isn't universal... For about 100 years, Cubists, Dadaists, Surrealists, Stravinsky, and others have disagreed with the contention that all art must be beautiful.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Art is whatever one think is beautiful, so very individual.

The issue with this is art isn't necessarily beautiful. Art can be eerie, disturbing, mind bending and even 'meh'.

 

[Heilage]

Even that simple definition isn't universal... For about 100 years, Cubists, Dadaists, Surrealists, Stravinsky, and others have disagreed with the contention that all art must be beautiful.

Well, to me, art is beautiful. When I buy a painting, it has to be beautiful. But again, things can be beautiful in different ways.

 

[localoid]

Well, to me, art is beautiful. When I buy a painting, it has to be beautiful. But again, things can be beautiful in different ways.

Everyone has different tastes, and people do tend to buy what they like, however, in regards to "beauty"...

I thoroughly enjoy listening to Stravinsky's Le Sacre de Printemps ("The Rite of Spring") but I find little "beauty" within it. Nor would I consider it to be "beautiful in a different way". But I do consider it as a work of art.

It's not beautiful, it's dissonance and very emotional, primordial, and brutal. And that seems totally appropriate, since the work depicts a pagan ritual in which a young girl dances herself to death, sacrificing herself to the god of Spring in order to gain his benevolence.

The real world isn't 100% beautiful. Why should an artist limit himself/herself to imitating only things of beauty?

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Everyone has different tastes, and people do tend to buy what they like, however, in regards to "beauty"...

I thoroughly enjoy listening to Stravinsky's Le Sacre de Printemps ("The Rite of Spring") but I find little "beauty" within it. Nor would I consider it to be "beautiful in a different way". But it is art.

It's not beautiful, it's dissonance and very emotional, primordial, and brutal. And that seems totally appropriate, since the work depicts a pagan ritual in which a young girl dances herself to death, sacrificing herself to the god of Spring in order to gain his benevolence.

The real world isn't 100% beautiful. Why should an artist limit himself/herself to imitating only things of beauty?

QFT
That was an elegant way of saying what I was trying to get at.

 

[Ca$hflow]

You don't put glass in front of oil on canvas paintings, it ruins the texture and depth of it.

And now you know,.... the REST of the STORAY!