The Great Art Debate
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. And easily distracted. Was always astonished by housemates at uni who said they couldn't study unless they had music on in the background. I might just have got away with something quiet and instrumental, but anything with lyrics and I was fooked. I also spend a lot of train journeys dearly wishing for a gun so I could shoot the prick talking on his mobile. I don't know whether it's the fact that only half a conversation jars but it drives me to distraction. So no. SILENCE.
In a world that has decided
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Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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This sums my feelings up pretty well. Always studied in silence (so could never study in the library). Try the quiet coach on your train journeys though, then if someone does speak on the phone you can at least tell them off for it. It still amazes me the types of conversations people are willing to have on the phone whilst on public transport.Prufrock wrote:. And easily distracted. Was always astonished by housemates at uni who said they couldn't study unless they had music on in the background. I might just have got away with something quiet and instrumental, but anything with lyrics and I was fooked. I also spend a lot of train journeys dearly wishing for a gun so I could shoot the prick talking on his mobile. I don't know whether it's the fact that only half a conversation jars but it drives me to distraction. So no. SILENCE.
Trains are full of people I can't understand. Such as people who simultaneously read a book whilst listening to music. I can only imagine that diminishes both experiences? Unless, they're listening to the audio book of whatever they're reading to see if there are any differences.
I also once saw a guy on a train, take out a cheese string, then eat it like it was a normal piece of cheese. What a weirdo.
Oh, and don't breathe or eat loudly near me!
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I've found a kindred spirit!
I'm going to give myself an aneurysm one day with the internal rage at people who eat with their mouth open.
I'm going to give myself an aneurysm one day with the internal rage at people who eat with their mouth open.
In a world that has decided
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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How did he eat it?Beefheart wrote:This sums my feelings up pretty well. Always studied in silence (so could never study in the library). Try the quiet coach on your train journeys though, then if someone does speak on the phone you can at least tell them off for it. It still amazes me the types of conversations people are willing to have on the phone whilst on public transport.Prufrock wrote:. And easily distracted. Was always astonished by housemates at uni who said they couldn't study unless they had music on in the background. I might just have got away with something quiet and instrumental, but anything with lyrics and I was fooked. I also spend a lot of train journeys dearly wishing for a gun so I could shoot the prick talking on his mobile. I don't know whether it's the fact that only half a conversation jars but it drives me to distraction. So no. SILENCE.
Trains are full of people I can't understand. Such as people who simultaneously read a book whilst listening to music. I can only imagine that diminishes both experiences? Unless, they're listening to the audio book of whatever they're reading to see if there are any differences.
I also once saw a guy on a train, take out a cheese string, then eat it like it was a normal piece of cheese. What a weirdo.
Oh, and don't breathe or eat loudly near me!
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Vincent appears to be taking the early brunt of the change....
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I really like the angled view of the 2nd. Reveals a whole new aspect to the work, as does the slight blurring.mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:Vincent appears to be taking the early brunt of the change....
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Yes. Blurring intimating the essential imprecision in his life whilst allowing his underlying agony to still present the warmth of his underlying spirit.LeverEnd wrote:I really like the angled view of the 2nd. Reveals a whole new aspect to the work, as does the slight blurring.mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:Vincent appears to be taking the early brunt of the change....
Especially when seen at that exact, acute, angle.
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bobo the clown wrote:Yes. Blurring intimating the essential imprecision in his life whilst allowing his underlying agony to still present the warmth of his underlying spirit.LeverEnd wrote:I really like the angled view of the 2nd. Reveals a whole new aspect to the work, as does the slight blurring.mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:Vincent appears to be taking the early brunt of the change....
Especially when seen at that exact, acute, angle.
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Beautifully put Bobo, you have crystallised my thoughts on the subject perfectly.
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here's Mummy being photographed in front of some art...
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Ha. It was cold, wet and deserted in that particular bit of the Hayward that morning. As I say, I don't decry the taking of photos as such - just the way the activity of getting the shot gets in people's way.
Prufrock wrote: Like money hasn't always talked. You might not like it, or disagree, but it's the truth. It's a basic incentive, people always have, and always will want what's best for themselves and their families
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ahh - i thought you were also decrying the art-selfie...mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:Ha. It was cold, wet and deserted in that particular bit of the Hayward that morning. As I say, I don't decry the taking of photos as such - just the way the activity of getting the shot gets in people's way.
and - you can go online and find pictures... or buy a postcard
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As it happens I don't think that's true in this case.thebish wrote:
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Prufrock wrote: Like money hasn't always talked. You might not like it, or disagree, but it's the truth. It's a basic incentive, people always have, and always will want what's best for themselves and their families
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Was in town yesterday so popped into the National Gallery to see what the fuss was about...
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Google Images: Van Gogh-Sunflowers. Right click: Print: Frame: Hang in hall. If Carlsberg did art work...mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:Was in town yesterday so popped into the National Gallery to see what the fuss was about...
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Maybe no-one is taking photos, and everyone there is only there to record all the other people recording .
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Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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Sacre Bleu...the maestro will be spinning in his grave....
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The Kazimir Malevich exhibition at Tate Modern (saw it in Saturday) is a powerful distillation of an artist's progress. From an eager embrace of Western European innovators at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries, to the most abstract (but dynamic) revolutionary abstractions coinciding - more or less - with his embrace of the October revolution. We then see an artist struggling to abandon 'form' entirely, to 'dissolve' it (the Black Square, the White on White).
In the end, a sick man, with a cancer that will kill him, the artist is forced to abandon his ideas to conform to Stalinist artistic thuggery. He is arrested twice, his work described as anti-revolutionary, and returns to figurative painting. Even here, though, he disguises his 'capitualtion'. The result is a sly, but unconvincing, attempt to subvert his submission to official demands - by the painting of peasants and workers as quarter-abstractions, often devoid of faces, colours always non-realist, far from the conventional depictions of Worker and Peasant 'heroes'.
He died of cancer before the launch of the great Purges in 1936. If he hadn't I have no doubt that Stalin would have had him executed and the terrorised artistic community would have applauded.
I really liked this exhibition (even if several of the abstract works whooshed over me) and totally applaud its chronological ordering, allowing the observer to see the development of the painter over decades.
In the end, a sick man, with a cancer that will kill him, the artist is forced to abandon his ideas to conform to Stalinist artistic thuggery. He is arrested twice, his work described as anti-revolutionary, and returns to figurative painting. Even here, though, he disguises his 'capitualtion'. The result is a sly, but unconvincing, attempt to subvert his submission to official demands - by the painting of peasants and workers as quarter-abstractions, often devoid of faces, colours always non-realist, far from the conventional depictions of Worker and Peasant 'heroes'.
He died of cancer before the launch of the great Purges in 1936. If he hadn't I have no doubt that Stalin would have had him executed and the terrorised artistic community would have applauded.
I really liked this exhibition (even if several of the abstract works whooshed over me) and totally applaud its chronological ordering, allowing the observer to see the development of the painter over decades.
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