Why is this black square famous? - Allison Leigh
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Date: 2023-09-19
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Hawkward
That's all cool. It's still a square, though. I don't think it's deeply profound because it's off-center and there's a hair stuck in it. It giVeS iT a sENse oF mOVeMEnT k dude, or maybe he didn't have a ruler handy.
The thing is, people can BS some sort of deep meaning out of ANYTHING if they try hard enough. I'd say that's exactly what people are doing when it comes to many examples of highly simplistic or random abstract artwork that a child could make.
Spare me all this pretentious oh, you're too close-minded to get it or you simply need to try harder to engage with the artwork Nah man, you're just making stuff up and getting high on your own farts. Make whatever art you want, however simple you want, but when an all-white painting, or a single shape, or a bunch of random splatters, or a damn banana taped to a wall is getting applauded as inspiring artwork and sold for the price of a house, then yeah, people are gonna roll their eyes and make fun of it.
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That's all cool. It's still a square, though. I don't think it's deeply profound because it's off-center and there's a hair stuck in it. It giVeS iT a sENse oF mOVeMEnT k dude, or maybe he didn't have a ruler handy.
The thing is, people can BS some sort of deep meaning out of ANYTHING if they try hard enough. I'd say that's exactly what people are doing when it comes to many examples of highly simplistic or random abstract artwork that a child could make.
Spare me all this pretentious oh, you're too close-minded to get it or you simply need to try harder to engage with the artwork Nah man, you're just making stuff up and getting high on your own farts. Make whatever art you want, however simple you want, but when an all-white painting, or a single shape, or a bunch of random splatters, or a damn banana taped to a wall is getting applauded as inspiring artwork and sold for the price of a house, then yeah, people are gonna roll their eyes and make fun of it.
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Bekjan
This is funny, he wanted to get feeling without the object, and if I understood correctly feeling without the meaning, because the object refers to a meaning. So he wanted the feeling without the meaning, and his most famous work in that style is the work that's famous because of the meaning, the reference to his life, so his most famous work in this style technically failed, because its the most meaningful piece of his work?
I know nothing about art, and for me personally it's is interesting when the skill that was put in the work is what matters, but when it comes to things like this painting, where its not really a skill but a concept or an idea I don't know, I don't really feel anything
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This is funny, he wanted to get feeling without the object, and if I understood correctly feeling without the meaning, because the object refers to a meaning. So he wanted the feeling without the meaning, and his most famous work in that style is the work that's famous because of the meaning, the reference to his life, so his most famous work in this style technically failed, because its the most meaningful piece of his work?
I know nothing about art, and for me personally it's is interesting when the skill that was put in the work is what matters, but when it comes to things like this painting, where its not really a skill but a concept or an idea I don't know, I don't really feel anything
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Guillaume
Art is what others recognize as art. It's therefore a social concept. Maybe Jack the Reapper was an artist from his point of view, and because no one recognize him as an artist, then he is just a killer, kicked outside the realm of art. You cannot call yourself master of your craft, way too arrogant, right? It has to be the title put on you by other; like the nobel prize, you have to be nominated for it. Artist is no different. That's also what define a country, what represent a political movement, what makes a game, ect.
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Art is what others recognize as art. It's therefore a social concept. Maybe Jack the Reapper was an artist from his point of view, and because no one recognize him as an artist, then he is just a killer, kicked outside the realm of art. You cannot call yourself master of your craft, way too arrogant, right? It has to be the title put on you by other; like the nobel prize, you have to be nominated for it. Artist is no different. That's also what define a country, what represent a political movement, what makes a game, ect.
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Ap0
This is no art. And I will never agree with a modern style, in my eyes it's just a lazyness and has nothing to do with an experience and skill. People who were making one painting for months or years are gone, all we can do today is admire the beauty we were able to do long time ago and won't be able to do again.
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This is no art. And I will never agree with a modern style, in my eyes it's just a lazyness and has nothing to do with an experience and skill. People who were making one painting for months or years are gone, all we can do today is admire the beauty we were able to do long time ago and won't be able to do again.
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Name3
Elitist Pick-me Artist makes something > Capitalist Art Collector buys something > Art Collector tells people something has value >Art Collector makes up BS to sell something > Pseudo intellectuals inserts their feelings to something > Something is now a masterpiece.
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Elitist Pick-me Artist makes something > Capitalist Art Collector buys something > Art Collector tells people something has value >Art Collector makes up BS to sell something > Pseudo intellectuals inserts their feelings to something > Something is now a masterpiece.
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GeeQ
This is the epitome of overcomplicating art for the sake of it. The irony is, a kid can't still do it and also achieve all the things you spoke of. off kilter, non parallel, cracks in the paint, stained with fingerprints and hair. Yup sounds like what my kid does
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This is the epitome of overcomplicating art for the sake of it. The irony is, a kid can't still do it and also achieve all the things you spoke of. off kilter, non parallel, cracks in the paint, stained with fingerprints and hair. Yup sounds like what my kid does
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cherry
My first thought when I first saw it was also that anyone can do it even a little child can. His other works looked great to me. Somehow it reminded me of a banana in a museum or art exhibition that someone left turning into a piece of art.
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My first thought when I first saw it was also that anyone can do it even a little child can. His other works looked great to me. Somehow it reminded me of a banana in a museum or art exhibition that someone left turning into a piece of art.
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Lemo-Memo
Its just like in school where they ask us to find meaning behind shakespeare saying roses are red, i guess the painting was a failed attempt at another painting but the painter decided to just use it so as to get bang for his buck
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Its just like in school where they ask us to find meaning behind shakespeare saying roses are red, i guess the painting was a failed attempt at another painting but the painter decided to just use it so as to get bang for his buck
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Snowman
If you look hard enough, you'll find lots of meaning in even an infant's scribbling. So i still don't get what's so special.
But i read that rich people buy these weird paintings to avoid huge taxes somehow.
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If you look hard enough, you'll find lots of meaning in even an infant's scribbling. So i still don't get what's so special.
But i read that rich people buy these weird paintings to avoid huge taxes somehow.
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Richard
That s nice and all but the unintended consequence is the influx of art that people BS to be worth millions because of some artistic expression but in practice is just the emperor s new invisible clothes.
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That s nice and all but the unintended consequence is the influx of art that people BS to be worth millions because of some artistic expression but in practice is just the emperor s new invisible clothes.
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ted_ed
Just cam to judge the question asked and the thimbnail, NOOO. some rich pretentious and this video is just pretentious. Pretentious artists and their audience are so exhausting.
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Just cam to judge the question asked and the thimbnail, NOOO. some rich pretentious and this video is just pretentious. Pretentious artists and their audience are so exhausting.
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Ben
I get that he wanted to viewers to experience feelings but when art is too abstract with no objects at all then it is hard to feel any feeling besides confusion
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I get that he wanted to viewers to experience feelings but when art is too abstract with no objects at all then it is hard to feel any feeling besides confusion
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Amelia
I think it s really based off of the hype behind it. I mean Donda was alright but it was nowhere close to the expectations people had for it
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I think it s really based off of the hype behind it. I mean Donda was alright but it was nowhere close to the expectations people had for it
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Julia
I think it s really based off of the hype behind it. I mean Donda was alright but it was nowhere close to the expectations people had for it
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I think it s really based off of the hype behind it. I mean Donda was alright but it was nowhere close to the expectations people had for it
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ZimmerSquash
Personally for me, these kinds of art only works as album covers or assisted illustrations for music and do enhance my feeling for it.
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Personally for me, these kinds of art only works as album covers or assisted illustrations for music and do enhance my feeling for it.
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Kaung
a refudge of pure feelings, that lay beneath a burden of objects this quote somehow managed to stand between the simplicity and complexity
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a refudge of pure feelings, that lay beneath a burden of objects this quote somehow managed to stand between the simplicity and complexity
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Tam
I think it s really based off of the hype behind it. I mean Donda was alright but it was nowhere close to the expectations people had for it
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I think it s really based off of the hype behind it. I mean Donda was alright but it was nowhere close to the expectations people had for it
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Whatever
If you have to teach people what your art means, you're not really an artist. Good thing the soviet police arrested him. What a clown
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If you have to teach people what your art means, you're not really an artist. Good thing the soviet police arrested him. What a clown
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Sydney
I will never understand people who think art is only important as a demonstration of technical skills and not as, you know, ART.
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I will never understand people who think art is only important as a demonstration of technical skills and not as, you know, ART.
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