Poll: does this qualify as art?

[Rusty pumpkin]

so today i went to a smithsonian to look at art. the "art" was blue plaster walling and smears of paint on canvases. wtf? that isnt art for me, thats just lazy bullcrap. oh, and i know this is completely unrelated to escapist, i just wanted to see what everyone else thought.

 

[HTID Raver]

art is subjective but in my opinion...


yeah it sounds like rubbish

 

[randomsix]

Check out some of Hans Hartung's stuff. He's a german abstract artist.
The nature of art is such that some pieces don't look like much (as far as detail go) but still manage to be pleasing to view. Not necessarily for everyone though.

 

[Rawker]

Modern art isn't my taste either. Abstract is more my cup of tea, but I guess you could argue that it doesn't take any thought for that as well, but it's all in opinion.

 

[Deofuta]

I wish there was an all option, because honestly anything can be seen as art, due to it's being subjective.

 

[Billion Backs]

Art is completely subjective, now shut up and don't turn it into another stupid flamewar with half of the people saying "Oh noes it's not art" and half saying "Oh yes it's art".

Also, Dada is awesome.

 

[arcticphoenix95]

Well, there's bound to be SOMEONE who thinks it's art.

 

[Dango]

When it comes to art, I'm pretty easily impressed, so I view lots of stuff as art, unless it's obvious that absolutely no thinking went into the work, in which case the "artist" just drew something that they thought was cool, so they can get out. Also, all art, or any creative works for that matter, that are made for a cause do actually qualify as creative.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

What is art is completely opinion and by what you described the piece you saw is classified as abstract art like Jackson Pollock. So by my thought's yes it is art.

 

[DethVanXan]

No, art is meant to reflect meaning as well as skill. People seems have forgotten this and focus solely upon the meaning.
Also, a lot of the time the famous artists arn't selling the art itself, but rather their name. It's like branding, people don't buy a D&G handbag because it looks nice or it's useful, but because it's D&G.
This is why I don't do art. Or maybe it's perhaps I lack insight, depends who ask.

 

[arcticphoenix95]

Art is subjective

 

[escapistrules]

i never had much of an eye for art, most of the time it looks like how you described. it all just looks like a big mess. i saw one of those modern art twisted metal things and asked why they did that. the response was that it speaks to everyone differently. to me, it said the artist was in a scrap yard with a sadering iron, stubbed his toe, and then took his anger out one scraps of metal lying on the ground and decided to pass it as art.

 

[Scorpion Whip]

Art is context. To smear paint haphazardly on a canvas can be beautiful. It's the context of the museum (and the exorbitant price tag that comes with it) that renders what is otherwise a totally benign and creative act into something absurd. It's only the intercession of the market that makes people so hostile to abstract, minimalist, and spontaneous art.

 

[Hiphophippo]

so today i went to a smithsonian to look at art. the "art" was blue plaster walling and smears of paint on canvases. wtf? that isnt art for me, thats just lazy bullcrap. oh, and i know this is completely unrelated to escapist, i just wanted to see what everyone else thought.

If you have to ask, yes. It got a reaction out of you didn't it? That's what art is supposed to do.

 

[Ldude893]

Wrong forum, and yes, anything with context can qualify as art.

 

[Chamale]

I was hanging out with an abstract artist for a couple of hours today, the things he was working on seemed like random crap but I saw that he was using an amazing amount of work on them. With the amount of effort he put into creating simple gradients, he could have done a lot of representational art. However, I think his abstract art was better than old-fashioned representational art, because of the ideas and symbolism in it.