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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jun 23, 2006 16:53:22 GMT -5
Genius.
Thorn, do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?
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Post by tuneschick on Jun 23, 2006 21:30:48 GMT -5
I unfortunately know shit about art - and have exactly zero artistic talent - but I like this a lot. A lot a lot. |
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Post by someone on Jun 24, 2006 4:54:13 GMT -5
Klee was all over the SFMOMA. Bleh.
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Post by sisyphus on Jun 24, 2006 8:07:01 GMT -5
i saw his stuff at the sf moma too. i loved it.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jun 26, 2006 10:09:22 GMT -5
I have a friend and we went to the new Modern Art museum, The Blanton, that just opened on the University of Texas campus here in Austin. He was embarrassing. He started talking very loudly that he thought Modern Art was crap and that all the people who made it were crap. He also was furious and cussed out the curator for basically using his tax dollars as toilet paper. Yikes.
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Post by sisyphus on Jun 26, 2006 12:58:09 GMT -5
what an idiot.
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Post by sisyphus on Jun 26, 2006 15:06:52 GMT -5
i have a friend whose art knowledge kind of ends with leonardo da vinci. strangely, she has wanted to start learning more about modern art, and so she's asked me to tell her what i know. we've gone to the library a couple of times and discussed it, (which is a slight challenge because she is deaf and i don't really know much ASL, but we get through it), and she's been quite surprised by some of the ideas and intents behind various movements. it's been making me think that one of these days i might want to write some sort of "modern art for dummies" treatise or something. (don't get me wrong, she ain't dumb...) it's just that i get so tired of imbeciles who seem to be stuck in the mindset that if it's not "representational" it's worthless... imbeciles who dismiss what they don't understand. idiots like your friend, Skvor. (i'm sorry you had to endure that, by the way... i'd have kicked the dick in his nuts, photographed the whole process serially, and submitted the final photo essay to the Museum's permanent collection....)
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jun 29, 2006 16:06:55 GMT -5
It crossed my mind, it really did. However, I really respected his opinion and sometimes I agree with him, though the way he goes about it is just terribly un-cheek. Sometimes I will see a piece where some guy has glued pennies to some tiles and I have to seriously wonder why I paid 15 bucks to get in some place to see that. That's the whole point for some of these guys though, I have to admit, that kind of reaction. I applaud them for it, but I would much rather them cook a cat and serve it to some old lady fundraiser or something that is truly subversive than just getting my ire for gluing pennies. I can appreciate it but at the same time I slightly wonder what the degree of skill is involved in something like that.
I do miss fine painters. People who are famous because they paint such weird portraits or something like that. I feel that the digital medium does that to a certain extent, but at times it can be a little too manufactured for me.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 30, 2006 9:38:46 GMT -5
Genius. Thorn, do you know what the queers are doing to our soil? You know what skvor? I like you. You're not like the other people here on Castaways. Oh no, don't get me wrong, they're fine people, good Americans. But they're content to sit back, maybe watch a little American Idol on Fox TV, maybe kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer. They're good fine people, Skvor. But they don't know what the queers are doing to the soil! *They're in it with the Aliens!* They're building landing strips for gay Martians. I swear to God! |
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Post by Galactus on Jun 30, 2006 9:59:03 GMT -5
This Johnny Worker kid, the kid that delivers papers
in my neighborhood. He's a fine kid. Some of the neighbors
say he smokes crack, but I don't believe it.
Anyway, for his tenth birthday, all he wanted was a Burrow Owl.
Kept bugging his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow owl. I'll never
ask for anything else as long as I live." So the guy
breaks down and buys him a burrow owl.
Anyway, 10:30, the other night, I go out in my yard, and there's
the Worker kid, looking up in the tree. I say, "What are
you looking for?" He says "I'm looking for my burrow owl."
I say, "Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick. Everybody knows
the burrow owl lives. In a hole. In the ground. Why the hell do you
think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?" Now Skvor, do you
think a kid like that is going to know what the queers are
doing to the soil?
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Post by Fuzznuts on Jun 30, 2006 10:02:15 GMT -5
I first became aware of this about ten years ago, the summer
my oldest boy, Fuzz Jr. died. You know that carnival comes into
town every year? Well this year they came through with a ride
called The Mixer. The man said, "Keep your head, and arms, inside
the Mixer at all times." But Fuzz Jr, he was a DAAAREDEVIL, just
like his old man. He was leaning out saying "Hey everybody,
Look at me! Look at me!" Pow! He was decapitated! They found
his head over by the snow cone concession.
A few days after that, I open up the mail. And there's a pamphlet
in there. From Pueblo, Colorado, and it's addressed to Fuzz Jr.
And it's entitled, "Do you know what the queers are doing to our
soil?"
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Post by Thorngrub on Jun 30, 2006 10:18:36 GMT -5
*double LOL*
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jun 30, 2006 10:19:24 GMT -5
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, burrow owls they live in the GROUND!
You guys rock!
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Post by sisyphus on Jun 30, 2006 10:50:17 GMT -5
jesuschrispitychristonapogostick....  |
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Post by sisyphus on Jun 30, 2006 11:13:17 GMT -5
It crossed my mind, it really did. However, I really respected his opinion and sometimes I agree with him, though the way he goes about it is just terribly un-cheek. Sometimes I will see a piece where some guy has glued pennies to some tiles and I have to seriously wonder why I paid 15 bucks to get in some place to see that. That's the whole point for some of these guys though, I have to admit, that kind of reaction. I applaud them for it, but I would much rather them cook a cat and serve it to some old lady fundraiser or something that is truly subversive than just getting my ire for gluing pennies. I can appreciate it but at the same time I slightly wonder what the degree of skill is involved in something like that. I do miss fine painters. People who are famous because they paint such weird portraits or something like that. I feel that the digital medium does that to a certain extent, but at times it can be a little too manufactured for me. you know, as with any field, there are some lame conceptual artists out there who give everyone a bad name, but there are also a lot of really thought-provoking artists working conceptually these days. while i think it takes a modicum of talent to paint weird portraits and such, and symbolism can be used very effectively in representational artwork, i get tired of it sometimes, unless the artist is doing something truly original. i like the philosophical/theoretical direction that a good deal of art movements have taken in the last century. |
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