Hello Peeps,
In my time I do hobbys, like sew and paint play music etc.
I took up refinishing guitars and found out how they do swirl paint on them. I wanted to think of a diffrent way to costum body art so I used vinyl and worked in Adobe PS7. I was very happy with the out come and wanted to share it with the reast of the people who custom their axes. I got people who said “cool” but there was others who spoke up with less then … well I’ll just let you read it.
And if you see the tags under the names of the less then, it makes it even more a shoker. I would love to hear you fine peoples views on what is art and what isnt.
Re: Art vs. Not Art, I consider execution to be a necessary component of art. Eye cand (or ear candy) is not necessarily art. It may be great and I may hang it on my wall, but that doesn’t make it art. I didn’t read your posts closely so I don’t know whether I’d call the guitar art. If you just got an image with a push of a button and printed and wrapped in an essentially low-skill process, then I wouldn’t call it art. That doesn’t mean that the guitar isn’t cool.
The problem with “art v. not art” debates is that they’re basically code for “stuff I like v. stuff I think sucks.” I say, it’s all art. Now let’s talk about “good art v. bad art.” Same argument, but more honestly framed.
Thanks, and I agree with you. I think in this point about the guitar was about them fearing change and some new guy steeping up with a new idea when they didnt think of it.
Art is absolutely anything you want to put on display for the perusal of other people.
I can be a urinal hung on a wall, or old condoms and liquor bottles on an unmade bed or extremely large pieces of metal fabricated in a shipyard with only three or four planes to them.
It is simultaneously the marvel and downfall of art that it can be anything.
What sort of art? That is another question.
Recently, there seems to be a stance held by art mavens that art should be incomprehensible. Anything that is “accessible” to the common man is seen as ordinary or passé. Personally, I am revolted by this esoteric and arcane approach to art. Pieces that intentionally offend the eye or outrage the mind, solely for that simple effect are a slap in the face to all those masters that paved the way for these latest one trick pony fifteen minute wonders.
If art demonstrates a diligent and precise vision of someone’s view of the world, I usually don’t have a hard time with it. If someone expects me to ooh and aah over a crucifix immersed in a jar full of urine, let’s just say that they may have to wait an awful long time.