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Originally Posted by jimmycooper
I can easily see how something like that could happen but I really don't feel as if the ignorant should be the ones who are granted the privilege of deciding [...].
I still can't get over what these two Koons paintings sold for at Christies. Freaking crazy.
Wolfman | Red Butt
So when well known artist does a few hardcore paintings of himself fucking his porn star wife, it's almost universally accepted within the art world as being art |
So you say the ignorant should not decide; but you also cna't get over the opposite side , so the art critic and galleries, where the above common porn picture get sold for $500,000 because its author, and eventually exposed in a museum.
This is because human brain and society it is made like that. For example why the nipple of Janet Jackson it is so much a bigger deal of the one of a random pornstar, it is still a same nipple. Why in isolated villages of not civilized countries the people go around naked and happy including under 18 children, and can not understand whats wrong with that... but at the same time, the nipple of Janet Jackson it is a big deal in the country who sent the man on the Moon and several robots on Mars?
I wished I can return ignorant, does all this studies and civilization is all useful?
Ok let me be not ignorant and cite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedetto_Croce
Who, already in 1901 so well before any modern art and without knowledge of psychology or Freud's work, "... claimed that art is more important than science or metaphysics, since only the former edifies us. He felt that all we know can be reduced to logical and imaginative knowledge. Art springs from the latter, making it at its heart, pure imagery. All thought is based in part on this, and it precedes all other thought. The task of an artist is then to put forth the perfect image that they can produce for their viewer, since this is what beauty fundamentally is ? the formation of inward, mental images in their ideal state. Our intuition is the basis of forming these concepts within us."
The funny fact of the guy, it is he lists what it is NOT art, and that's a long list - most people think he's outdated and wrong, but well... honestly I think there's something that is is NOT art, whatever it is sold or advertised as art. Simply it should be the people naked in isolated village to decide it too, in my 2 cents opinion.
PS: Hellos to Amnon of met-art if he reads this ever
