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Post by stuartmilgram on Mar 23, 2005 9:48:50 GMT
yeah, they're great. there's something about them on the other thread.
They're kinda using the form of a practical joke as a medium. Someone plays a practical joke on you and you have the choice of whether to get angry, or just laugh and go "good one". I think I'm all get angry and threaten to rip their heads off, and THEN have a think about what a great art performance it is.
Most of the problems in the art world come freom galleries wanting to protect their 'investment' or art speculators who want the value of the work to increase so they can then sell it on. The oil in your fingers will mark the surface you know... fuck that. What's the point of making an obviously tactile piece of sculpture if you can't touch it?
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Post by Fellalady on Mar 23, 2005 10:22:09 GMT
This is all true. What is the point of art if I doesn't produce a reaction?
The most important lesson my art education taught me was not to be precious about your own work. I remember having to do this exercise where you had to produce a piece of work, a sculpture/ painting etc and then hand it over to someone else who was free to do with it what ever they wanted, bash it up or re-construct it, or not. Initially I found this quite difficult, but once I came round to the idea it was really liberating.
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Post by Miss Waistcoat on Mar 27, 2005 22:15:48 GMT
"Art" is simply a term. Just as the concept of "love or "hate". People have their own opinion on what art is and what it means to them. From a psychological point of view this is very interesting- Why is it that we attach more meaning to some things over others? Why do peoples perceptions differ in this way? Art is capable of reaching all the senses i guess, and takes our minds into a directed place, as guided by the artist.
In this way i suppose it is possible to argue that a large component of "art" is produced in the mind.
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