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8508. wonkers2 - 12/3/2007 5:20:36 PM 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art 8509. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/3/2007 5:29:50 PM FAB! 8510. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/3/2007 5:39:27 PM The review AND the women! 8511. wabbit - 12/3/2007 7:18:54 PM This nice person went through and ID'd all the portraits. 8512. wonkers2 - 12/3/2007 8:27:49 PM Tnx, wabbit! 8513. wonkers2 - 12/4/2007 3:42:15 AM A bit of American artistic,political and economic history 8514. David Ehrenstein - 12/6/2007 9:28:13 PM Bill goes ballistic over the Grammys 8515. wonkers2 - 12/6/2007 10:12:37 PM Art, Fair Use or Piracy? 8516. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/6/2007 10:53:22 PM For a wonderful read about Prince and the poseurs who infest the NY art scene, check out the latest issue of The New republic.
If you want a flavor of his work, try this:
How the Art World Lost Its Mind to Money - Laissez-Faire Aesthetics
8517. wonkers2 - 12/6/2007 11:45:32 PM Interesting. Thanks. I guess art is whatever sells.
8518. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/7/2007 12:37:32 AM I guess art is whatever sells.
True and authentic art is a visual language with a long and complex history. The world is inundated now with a morass of commercial junk that passes for it because it takes genuine education to recognize it– most people don't have the time or the inclination to learn to see the difference between the two. The avant garde has become the derrière garde and rich fools want to be seen as cultured collectors.
Sorry–you got me started! 8519. concerned - 12/7/2007 12:55:04 AM It seems to me that, with the exception of utilitarian art, artists appear to abhor repeating the modes and styles of expression previously used in art, and with modern day society's extensive means of documenting and categorizing art, not only is it becoming increasingly hard to come up with truly original art concepts but artists are very aware of that & I think it tends to inhibit them.
Just a non-artist's uninformed opinion. 8520. David Ehrenstein - 12/7/2007 1:27:35 AM I think to a large degree you're right. 8521. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/7/2007 2:06:38 AM It's a valid conclusion connie, but any genuine artistic discipline, like painting, literature, film, music, dance, etc., has infinite possibilities for an the artist with original vision. And there's the rub, because it takes decades to develop and refine one's unique way of expressing their soul.
The problem is that most young "artists" today are undisciplined and lazy. It's easier to scheme about how to get maximum attention with a shocking gesture that short-circuits the thinking of the easily fooled general public, than to actually learn a discipline and compete with the masters of the particular medium--be they living or dead.
8522. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/8/2007 6:32:54 AM Nobody care! 8523. wonkers2 - 12/10/2007 4:35:11 AM Merle Hazard's "H-E-D-G-E" and "In the Hamptons" 8524. wonkers2 - 12/20/2007 6:45:35 PM Christmas in Richistan 8525. judithathome - 12/21/2007 6:49:37 AM What mall is that?
8526. wonkers2 - 12/21/2007 3:50:46 PM The "Somerset Collection" in Troy, Michigan, incredibly a suburb of Detroit which, as you know, is in a major recession with unemployment the highest in the country. I wonder where all the money is coming from. 8527. jexster - 1/11/2008 8:59:26 PM I saw one of the concerts on this tour back in 1970 or 71ish
Means I saw this...damn am I old...boy was I wasted!!!
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