mroped
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Post by mroped on Nov 11, 2015 17:00:55 GMT -5
Had seen many of the "great" paintings or sculptures and none would give me that WOW! I stood 3' away from Mona Lisa and was "Eh! It's alright but that smile is weird!" About an hour after that, walking around in the courtyard, some young women was doing pencil drawing and I went "wow! That's awesome!" So I'd say that I'm easier impressed by something that I see being created than by something that is famous because somebody else decided it should. I am more impressed by architecture and design than individual pieces of art. Don't care much for an individual sculpture but I love basorelief. Same goes for individual paintings but I love the sequence in a Fresca. From arts, I'm more drawn to music especially instrumental. Classic and jazz to be more exact are my favorites but there are pieces from all music genres that I enjoy listening to. I can sit and listen to guitar or trumpet all day long and odd enough I get the goose bumps! Also love love dance especially ballet. When I was in 6th grade we were visiting a National Theatre and it happens that Bolshoi was rehearsing. They allowed us to sit in and watch quietly for about ten minutes. I was mesmerized by the grace of the ballerinas and their movement in perfect sink with each other and the beat of the music. SOLD! Everytime we went to a ballet performance, my mind went back to that time and kinda said: here is the standard! Let's see if you can meet it!
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Lizard Queen
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Post by Lizard Queen on Nov 11, 2015 22:02:17 GMT -5
I've been to the Louvre, but the museum closed before I made it to see the Mona Lisa. Glad to read that I didn't miss much!
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Post by tskeeter on Nov 11, 2015 23:09:16 GMT -5
I think the appreciation for art of any kind is directly proportional to how much we know about the process of creating the art. It's much easier to appreciate ballet, the athleticism, the artistic expression, if you dance. To me,it's hard to appreciate a lot of art. As an accountant, I appreciate the artistry of a really great spreadsheet. M
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Nov 11, 2015 23:29:49 GMT -5
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Post by Tennesseer on Nov 12, 2015 11:54:23 GMT -5
I don't have a lot of knowledge or opinions on much art, but I prefer photography to painting. I like Ansel Adams... I like the black/white and the clean lines and the realness of it. I definitely don't get abstract stuff, and I'm usually drawn to "pretty" (according to what my brain thinks is pretty). Visual art doesn't do much for me emotionally, but music does. Are you familiar with the Hungarian photographer Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász)? I find his photographs of mid-20th century France and Paris in particular very interesting. Brassaï In the movie Titanic (1996), one of Brassaï's photographs was used as the basis for a drawing the character 'Jack Dawson' drew during his time in Paris as an artist. Here is the drawing in the movie, and here is the photograph by Brassaï: When I saw the drawing in the movie, I immediately knew it was Brassaï. Both Brassaï and 'Jack Dawson' titled their works 'Madame Bijou'. The movie paid homage to the works of Brassaï in Paris.
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Post by violagirl on Nov 12, 2015 12:03:06 GMT -5
I think you have to take in the whole contemporary picture of when a piece of art was produced, how and why to understand if it is great or not.
I did not get to Florence to see David but from what I read, generally at that time David was depicted after the battle with Goliath - Michelangelo depicted him before the battle. Ready to fight. The statue was actually started by another artist, on a slab of marble that was too small, but Michelangelo finished it. So took great skill.
It was done at a time when Florence had recently cast off the Medici family as rulers and was surrounded by more powerful city-states. They were the David - ready to fight.
That said, I think sometimes we see an artist's name and think everything they do has to be good, but artists and authors have pieces of work that may just be meh. We should be able to acknowledge that everything a person ever produces is not great art.
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cael
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Post by cael on Nov 12, 2015 12:17:12 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with him Tenn, I'll check some of his stuff out.
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Post by cktc on Nov 12, 2015 18:39:37 GMT -5
A lot of art appreciation is from a historical and evolution of art context. It's kind of a "what are you doing that hasn't been done this way/this well, before?"
So maybe you go back and watch the old Godzilla and just see cheesy puppets, but it's a classic because of what it brought to film. You kind of have to appreciate it just as a precursor to what you currently enjoy.
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sesfw
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Post by sesfw on Nov 12, 2015 21:39:19 GMT -5
When DH and his DW#1 worked and toured in Europe they visited every art museum they could find. And that is a lot. When DH and I went to Europe for the first time in 2006 I told him he could visit just one museum. I was not going to spend my whole trip going from one museum to another.
I think most of the pictures in a museum are of grumpy old men and they do nothing for me. I like watching the technic and the putting things together.
I have no appreciation for that type of art. The last museum we visited was in Nuremberg and I felt sorta sorry for him because we didn't have enough time for him to absorb all the nuances of the grumpy old men.
He volunteers as a docent at the Phx Art Museum and goes to different community centers and schools as part of the outreach program. He uses me as his sounding board when he is working on another presentation and I go with him when I can just for moral support.
I know a little bit about the Dutch Masters, Peter Breugal, Rembrandt, Durer, Vermeer. But don't ask me about any details ......... except for one thing about Durer. He is the one that did the etching 'Praying Hands'.
However I do like Remington. Love his 'End of the Trail'.
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