Off Topic Why are some paintings

Herself and I’d say many thousand others

 

It's the perfect example of snobbery ahead of substance imo ...

... and a reason why some people are put off art.

 

Never understood the fuss over the Mona Lisa, it is quite a dull painting, imo., their is an awful lot of hype in the market place,and the fact that it is a major tourist attraction might explain its allure, The French are very good at marketing products, willingly helped by the likes of Bernie Ecclestone.

 

And pretty much why I started the thread. Maybe I’m not very bright but I just can’t figure out why a painting like the Mona Lisa is considered brilliant yet other paintings aren’t. I really cannot see it.

 

#CrapFlowerSketchesMatter

 

I suppose the answer is that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' and avoid being pushed into going against your own feelings ....

... some people think the photo of that tennis player, scratching here arse, is the best work in the history of the world.

And they're right, for them.

 

I quite like that tennis player picture.

 

I get the OP like. I’ve seen better pictures of sunflowers than VG’s and it hardly has any history. There is absolutely nothing special about it and it looks like the vase has been smashed at some point and repaired badly. The Mona Lisa looks like her face has been smashed and put together badly but at least it is over 500 years old and was painted by a ninja turtle.

 

Art is like music imo, a matter of personal taste.

Sometimes perfect production, and accuracy, loses the soul of the work.

Modern music is so well digitally tuned, balanced and 'improved' that it sounds bland and samey.

Wembley cup finals have become so perfectly stage managed that the joy and passion has been diluted ...

... same corny announcements, same flags, same music, etc.

Give me rowdy imperfection every time.

 

If you can be bothered try and watch the Andrew Marr programme on the very subject, it does have a history and it is an astonishing piece of work painted by a genius, and talking of brocken crockery, this will amuse you
Kintsugi is a Japanese tradition of repairing pottery with precious metals. The practice preserves and enhances objects that would otherwise be discarded. Kintsugi follows the philosophy of treasuring pottery and dishes that show the passage of time. Kintsugi creates beautiful objects that increase in value.

 

I think our antique experts call it Patina or as we would call it f ucked.

 

Wrong again.

 

I shall be starting my PhD (in Fine Art) later this year ... and that is a fine example of the kind of questioning that I'll be doing my best to avoid when it comes to defending my thesis or 'viva voce'

 

It’s nee older than me grandmother me owld mucka. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I doubt I will be watching that, it’s not my thing. Some people like to watch archaeology and the like cos it interests them. I prefer, the First 48, Killer in Plain Sight, Murdertown, Snapped etc. So I guess Kintsugi is the art of repairing broken pottery, Consugi, the art of smashing people with hammers and burying them in the back garden.

 

Having read almost all of your posts, I can’t, at any point, remember you saying you’re down the Louvre every weekend!!

 

I think that I've read every one of his posts, Marcus . . . . every ****ing one

 

To be fair to the lad, the internet is lousy at the Louvre

 

I used to own a yellow Hillman Avenger, if only I’d know that, I would have taken it to Monaco for them to fight over.

 

Nowt wrong with Monty