Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., Unfortunately, It seems very difficult to separate the art from the horse poo. I've always believed artwork works when communication takes place, in what Jung might call the collective unconscious.When a person captures his/her feeling about something well enough for others to understand, it becomes worthwhile.If that same person has talent then what they say might have lasting value. Antiquity must be overfilled with the bones of artists who made art but lacked some essential ability to communicate. .One difference between painting, sculpture, music and photography is very obvious. In those mediums the creators waste little if any time discussing pigments, brush lengths, mixing mud or who makes their violin strings. I almost doubt photography will every reach that stage. Walt B. D. Colen wrote: >People change my mind about things every day, Philippe. But, one, Paul >didn't say that artist's don't call their work art, he said there is no such >thing as art - which is horse poo. And I would also suggest that while many >artists don't care whether the riff raff consider their work art, they >themselves certainly call it art, and want to have it viewed as such. But >we'll obviously have to disagree. :-) > > >On 4/29/06 9:12 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > > > >>B.D., >>Chances are slim that I'll change your mind on this one (or on >>anything else), but I tend to disagree. >>An artist is someone who makes something that is called art by others. >>Whether it's called that or sometihng else, a true artist couldn't >>care less. >> >> >> >>Op 30-apr-06, om 01:00 heeft B. D. Colen het volgende geschreven: >> >> >> >>> Paul Hardy Carter tells to... >>>... remember - there is no such thing as art; there are only artists! >>> >>>And to think...I always thought that an artist was...one who >>>creates art. >>>And art is what an artist creates. >>> >>>Okay, if there is no such thing as art, there is no such thing as >>>an artist. >>>So there. :-) >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Leica Users Group. >>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >