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justin01
Trad climber
sacramento
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Reminds me of this song by todd snider.
now to fit in on the seattle scene
you've gotta do somethin' they ain't never seen
so thinkin' up a gimmick one day
we decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note
under any circumstances
silence
music's original alternative
root's grunge
http://youtu.be/zmxSMIN3-WI
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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hey, the nice thing about LACMA is that, if you're a county resident--you have to show an ID--you get in free after 6 pm or so for a couple hours of gawking.
someone i know donated a teacup to the japanese art pavilion a few years back. i think he valued it around $7,000 as a charitable contribution on his tax return. it had its pedigree--from a certain period in japanese art history. you or i wouldn't have paid $1 for it at a yard sale. ("i'm supposed to drink tea from that?")
i liked the exhibit they had on the olmecs a couple years ago, and their current permanent exhibit on central american precolumbian work is terrific. other than that, there was the kandinsky thing about 12 years ago. if you go next door, you can look at cool tar pit skeletons, but i don't know if it's free.
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rectorsquid
climber
Lake Tahoe
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I watched a documentary about a "color field" painter who painted mostly stuff like that, except that her stuff showed more than just white. She started getting a lot of attention when she started giving her work long complicated names. Being known as a painter just for her extremely-short-story writing made the whole thing rather humorous.
The social interactions that these types of paintings cause is what makes them at all interesting.
Or was this a joke? I've seen enough bland color field paintings to think that this is real.
Dave
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ground_up
Trad climber
mt. hood /baja
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If I could get 11 million for vacuum cleaners in a case , I would
consider that a masterpiece .... in that regard even genius...
dam why didn't I think of that.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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She started getting a lot of attention when she started giving her work long complicated names.
Kinda like some JTree routes.
There seems to be an inverse relationship between length and route name.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Art requires skill to produce, by definition. If it does not require skill, then it's not art - or at least not good art.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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The Hoover Vacuums by Koons are just a more glorified (encased and lit as if a sacred relic) version of Duchamp's original "readymades", possibly starting in 1915. He is certainly one of the first to probe the boundaries of what can be called "art".
"In Advance of the Broken Arm" (the title is great)
love the intriguing story of the white canvases and it may well be part of the piece.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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abstract impressionism has had its progressionism, especially in california.
most of us who know it love richard diebenkorn's work, which, like kandinksy's, became progressively more abstract. i recently read that one of his pieces went for around $6 million at a southeby auction. i tell that to parents who try to discourage their kids from studying art.
sam francis was another california artist, taking diebenkorn's abstracting even further, into monochrome canvases and beyond, to canvases that were completely white--but they were painted, and the texture and variation within them are considered part of the art. i knew a student of francis's who wasn't quite so brave--she'd actually put a little something in there among the white. don't ask me why any of it is "art", but i'll buy diebenkorn being art--though i can't pay current prices.
i was hitting a few hoity-toity galleries myself a couple years ago, looking for someone who might take on the funky furniture i was making, and i came across this astounding work, saved from oblivion by an imaginative and courageous gallery owner.
http://www.williamalaga.com/
a california abstract impressionist, mentally ill, or at least stressed, and at the time still homeless on the streets of westwood, but he had been given a showing in paris, and he sold there very, very well.
you know art when you see it, don't you?
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go-B
climber
Habakkuk 3:19 Sozo
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Did anyone else notice they hung them upside down?
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Art can be pretty weird if you don't live in the art world. Some things are just a statement. They will never sell for a zillion dollars, but they have their place.
I for one love the abstract expressionists. I took a month off a few years ago and traveled up the east coast checking out every Jackson Pollok that I could. They are really mesmerizing up close. He painted with the canvas laying on the floor, and there is the occasional cigarette butt in there.
I tried it myself, also. It is actually reasonably difficult to control things like he did.
Lots of great paintings from that period. It was really only cutting edge during that one period. Gerhard Richter still does some that are really beautiful.
I was up seeing my son in Denver last fall and missed the new Clifford Still museum.
It is like gangsta rap. I never thought I would get into that, but I loaded my ipod with my son's hip hop and found that I liked the earliest gangsta stuff the best. I had to force feed myself for a week or so to get into it. Now I love it. Angry young poetry is what it is. Some is lame, but some is incredible.
In the immortal words of the poet warrior Ice Cube, today didn't require the use of an AK. Therefore it was good.
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roadkillphil
Trad climber
Colorado
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To paraphrase, art is kind of like pornography....I'm not exactly sure what it looks like, but I'll know it (and appreciate it or not) when I see it.
Personally, I would choose the Getty for a visit when in SoCal; but does anyone else like Nicholas Roerich? "Messenger of Beauty"
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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The hands down best art museum I have ever been to is the Art Institute of Chicago. That place has so many amazing and famous paintings. It has it all.
MOMA in New York is also really good. You can go see Van Gogh's Starry Night.
The National Museum of Art in D.C. is OK. They have a great collection, but as is the case with most museums, there is not enough exhibit space, so things move around. It is best to call ahead to see what they have up.
Haven't been to the Getty.
I don't get some stuff, though. In Chicago, they had a string of lights, like plain old Christmas lights, plugged in and laying on the floor.
I have a very arty in law who just shakes his head at me and says I don't get it.
That stuff for sure, but Pollok's are incredible from one foot away.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Did anyone else notice they hung them upside down?
No, they were rotated 90 degrees to the left, the right, and the left.
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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A CANVAS UNDESECRATED
Profound is art in patterns woven
As we, like so many cleft and cloven
cattle, do chafe when forced to perceive
the little things of which we take leave
Where weft and warp do meet and cross
we miss the beauty, becry the loss
of blaring borders and gaudy paint
where woven patterns seem too quaint
On a lofty perch, give me a little
nondescript patch of granite and crystal
and lost can I be for hours on end
patterns to perceive, nay, comprehend
- Nutjob, 4/2012
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jamatt
Social climber
Asheville, NC
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just sayin'
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