If you've ever seen a toilet in a museum and thought, I could do that...
Fifteen minutes of continuous concentration earns you a pretty decent knock-off; sorry Jackson.
If you're shrugging your shoulders, you should read the previous post.
*Autumn Rhythm courtesy of ricardo.martins
This is very prickly stuff. Here's a link to the film about the controversial child prodigy, Marla Olmstead.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Kid_Could_Paint_That
One of Pollock's paintings sold for $140 million dollars. Not that is a measure of greatness. Its only one kind of marker.
It is one thing to experiment with a digital art program, and quite another to be centrally responsible for freeing the canvas from the easel, the painter from her brush and pallette. To make the canvas not only a reflection of the cerebral but but a medium to capture the physical whirlings of the artist. Are you the next Jackson Pollack? There is only one way to find out, get a canvas and paint and go to it. And who knows, 50 years from now, another blogger will answer a poster, "Are you the next Ezra Salzman-Gubbay?
Pollock's looks better
ReplyDeleteIt's a far cry from creating a new art form and copying the style of another artist even if you were able to perfectly copy the original. History is replete with the stories of art forgeries that were near perfect reproductions of the original and fooled even so-called "experts". Are the copies great works of art because they mimic the style of the original artist who create it? You tell me.
ReplyDeleteWhat upsets me about the "I can do that" argument is that is says one thing to me: art is dictated by the process.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that to so many people the hours/talent one puts into a piece is what dictates it's success. If you have been blessed with a revolutionary mind and spend three minutes writing "R. Mutt" on a urinal and in result change the world you should be allowed to get away with it.
I swear I posted my most recent entry before seeing this, Kev. I totally respect Duchamp; my reasons have all to do with the revolutionary part and nothing to do with the hours/talent part.
ReplyDeleteI always found it interesting that when a kid sees a piece of artwork they could replicate, they do so with such enthusiasm. Once their recreation of the original is complete, they are totally content.
ReplyDeleteBut when when some adults see a piece of artwork that "they they could do," they find the artist's work less moving or "good".
I've always wondered when we reach that moment--the moment when we lose that self-worth.
As for my opinion on the whole "DIY: Abstract Art". I try to view art as something that has an affects me. Whether it is a feeling of wonderment at the technical skill of the artist or a sense of indignation at the seemingly lack of talent, it doesn't matter. What's most important is that I had a reaction to the piece. If it makes me want to go home and try to recreate it, then I would think that the artist had a massively profound effect on me.
Just my thoughts. I hope it was mildly coherent, my thoughts this early in the morning are like my breakfast eggs--scrambled.