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For all of you who create, ponder, criticize & appreciate ART:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDo_vs...

Oh, and there is homage to poo flinging as well. ;)

I'm afraid to hit the link because I'm in a small conference room with people I don't know around me.

However, I doubt I will ever see them again. It's a tough call.

Anyway, I have come to appreciate writing poetry and drawing as something that doesn't need much of an audience...in other words, I usually only post poetry here and draw for my own release...and that's art to me. I don't need to make a mark in the broader art world. I get what I can from it.

I'm bouncing a working definition around in my head...

art is a messcan guy LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

RA it's Creature Comforts - clay animation shorts of animals dubbed with real people's comments. Pretty funny & nothing visually disturbing.

Yea, I know Art! LOL

"Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them"

"Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced, or is producing, the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression"

Leo Tolstoy


wow, i think i agree with this. wish i had said it

That is really cool. Art connects us all with inspiration feeding inspiration. I love that.

Ah. More Tolstoy. Wow, he really nailed it didn't he. His novels are true art. Too bad he was so irascible with his own wife!

I'm gonna have to read some of his stuff now. Any suggestions?

War and Peace!

blushing furiously um... yea, I was gonna get to that one. :S

Back to the name of What Is Art. I'm surprised no one has posted this yet:

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ok lori, he has had his 15 minutes of fame

I'm sorry to revert, but if you're going to read Tolstoy and haven't yet, you must begin with Anna Karenina.

i am still blown away by his What Is Art essay

Cool... one Tolstoy added to my reads. Thanks!

I always thought Warhol's stuff was pretty elementary. I understand the newness & inventiveness & all that, but um, it's a soup can that I could have drawn in 8th grade art class.

I guess I don't see the inspiration in it. BUT what he considers art isn't any of my business.

i never got pop art either

Ooooh, I just found excerpts from What Is Art... so cool. I love sharing knowledge! (And I heart you guys)

I am okay with Warhol's stuff. I don't love it, but I don't hate it.
However, I never got Jackson Pollack's art.
Splatter paint.
Much worse that pop art. (In my opinion)

Same here, Julie! I like Warhol, especially his Cowboy Elvis, but I've never understood Pollock. I even saw that movie about him, and everything, and it's still just splatters to me.
I don't care for de Kooning, either.
I'm a philistine, I guess.

I've seen chimp and elephant spatters that would rival Pollock's work.

You are worldly Larry!

I'll take that as a compliment, Jim. Thanks.

just can't do pop art. not rippin' on, just not my thing

A compliment indeed!

I like Pollock. Sorry, Larry.

I have a Pollock print in my work office, right next to three Rothkos, two Odilon Redons, and two movie posters. I like Pollock, too.

Matthew wrote: "I like Pollock. Sorry, Larry."

No need to be sorry. I just don't see it. That's all. I could very well be a defect in my perceptions. Who's to say?

RA: I love Redon! Mmm, symbolism...

Larry: : )

Larry wrote: "I've seen chimp and elephant spatters that would rival Pollock's work."

Pollock? P.U.
ANYway, have any of you seen the documentary about elephants who actually paint? Something is put in front of them, like a plant, say, and they can copy it. With their trunks, no less. Fascinating. Adams may have gotten it wrong about the mice and dolphins, I sometimes think.

I saw the painting elephant - that was pretty cool.

The girl who voiced the horse from creature comforts works in my office. She and the mule are in an avant-punk band together, though they are no longer dating. Some differences are hard to overcome.

I LOVE Creature Comforts - esp. the British version. I have all the American ones saved on my DVR - the ones they dared to show, that is. Which horse was it? Was it the American one in the barn with her "husband?"

Yes - the American horse, and her mule boyfriend/husband/whatever.

She works here, and he has a freelance job with a local magazine, walking around asking hipster-man-on-the-street questions like "What would your roller derby name be?" and "If you were a drink, what would it be?"
They're both remarkably like their characters. I think a lot of thought went into linking the characters and the personas of the people who voiced them.
Very clever stuff. I'd love to see the British version.

It was very, very clever - maybe they were both the same amount of clever but I'm just used to Americans. Anyway, The UK version is definitely worth seeing. Maybe PBS or BBC will show them again.