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[Panda]

Finally, my friend and I managed to see the exhibition < Monet to Warhol> in Busan Modern Art Museum on the very last day.

Except the fact there were only one Monet and one Warhol. I pretty enjoyed the show because it's kept me thinking and thinking these day of the meaning of art:

I never pretend I understand the deep meaning of any art. Because i don't think there is any deep meaning of some art.

Besides all the abstract paintings, for example. there was a pile of painted logs and bricks ( which you can find in every grandpa's yard) .

a flattened paper box in dark green paint (hanging on the wall) .

an aluminum window (which you can find in many buildings here).

3 tables hanging on wall with all food utensils and left over glued on the tables.

There was even a real fire extinguisher that you might think which belongs to the French museum and was brought here by mistake.


It pissed me off to try to find out how superior this flattened paper box is compared to the piles of paper boxes I see everyday the garbage man collects in my neighborhood.

For very long, the criteria i'd apply for art is "weather or not I want to put it in my home to just look at". But this exhibition changed my mind .


I think everything can be art, as long as they give you the awe, the emotion, even just a weird feeling. It doesn't have to be symmetrical or neat, it can be meaningless as well.


On the way back home that afternoon. I looked at everything around me and found them very pleasant , I thught....this <Monet to Warhol> was a very good exhibition.

[pkang0202]

[tfunk]

Art is one of those words that has conventional usage but also an abstract usage. Some art is pretty, some art is intended as a metaphor.

I think it's grandiose for some artists not to explain, or at least give a clue, as to the context of their work. It's as if by obfuscating the meaning they've elevated its importance.

The viewer gets the feeling they're being hoodwinked, like somethings phony. It irritates me.

I once asked an artist what her painting was about (it was abstract) and she responded "what do you mean, what does it mean? it's art, I don't know what it means".

[Panda]

[schwa]

I like the OP's point.

Artists can elevate the mundane & life becomes a gallery.

[Stout]

[The Floating World]

Art is Scarlett Johanson wearing pink nylon hot pants and a boob tube.

[crisdean]

As I've come to understand it art is a bunch of morons in a room going ooh and aah over a steaming pile of vomit.

[Panda]

[magni]

I was fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to attend a couple of the best art schools in the world for my undergrad and I'll tell you straight up that there is some work that is utter bullsh*t. Most of the time though, it isn't- any respected professional artist (not hobbiest) is basically required to provide any and every piece of work they make with a statement and/or essay on the work.

Now some people may disagree with me and say boxes on walls are boxes on walls, statement or not, but unfortunately artists often take little consideration into the average man, and would much rather blah on about how conceptual they are and capture the hearts of those rich guys who buy their stuff.

Right now I'm working on a body of work that some people might call inappropriate, or stupid, or whatever but meh. Some artists might say that the fact that this has become a topic and gotten people talking about the work is as important as the work itself. Often the meaning is more important than the piece.

[tfunk]

[pkang0202]

[Panda]

[madoka]

[tfunk]