mike wilson wrote: >Bob W wrote: > > > >>While we're discussing modern geniuses of the art world, I had lunch >>with friends yesterday in the courtyard of the Royal Academy, and was >>thrilled to see David Hockney wandering around. Very modest and >>friendly he seemed to be. I didn't talk to him, but plenty of people >>did and he seemed like a really nice man. >> >>Bob >> >> > >I heard he was quite angry when he was younger. > Model for John Osborne's Jimmy? ;) (asied: I LOVE David Hockney's stuff)
I wish I wasn't tangled up in technology right now -- I'm skimming this thread but I wish I could throw out a few zingers that were useful or at least interesting. So what is that joke about this subject that rables along for a while with the punch line "Yeah, but is it art?" I'm with Mark on the Iwo Jima photo - great stuff... and very accessable. I _don't_ think (picking up on or um at Bob Sullivan's line) that hitting you on an emotional level is necessarily an essential ingredient in art. And there are plenty of crappy photos of things that will get you emotionally and stay with you - The amature video of Columbia's re-entry and zillions of photos of smoke coming out of just about anything.... I like my art with multiple layers - some for the head, some for the eye, some for the heart - be it photographic, literary, paint on canvas - whatever. But I'm happy to admire craft and prettiness - be it art or no. I'm not crazy about conceptual art - or at least what presented itself as such when I was studying with Robert Morris and Hollis Frampton back in the 70's I don't think it has to be accessable to the whole world - but it ought not to have to be explained by the "artist" outside of the piece of work itself to at least 20 of his/her closest friends and collegues. ann the blabber mouth > > > >> >> >>>I decided the best way to settle this question once and for all was >>> >>> >>to >> >> >> >>>ask someone who really knows. This is what he says: >>> >>>"If your art expresses yourself, it's art. Real art. Period." Ken >>>Rockwell. >>> >>>Not much room for doubt there, and such good grammar, too, so I >>> >>> >>don't >> >> >> >>>expect any more arguments about this, alright? >>> >>>http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/art.htm >>> >>>-- >>>Bob >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
