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    Art is anything that is intended to evoke an emotional response from the beholder. Thus, making a shellacked donut toilet seat is art. py art, pointless stupid hipster art, but still art. Just because we don't like it, doesn't exclude it from the realm of art. Just like music, different strokes for different folks.

    Sometimes things that aren't intended to be art end up that way because of people's response to it.

    Even the most mundane things, such as a plain concrete bridge span that we would normally not give a second glance can be the basis for art, such as if a photographer or painter portrays the bridge in a certain light or from a certain angle that gives it a "hook" into our emotions.
    This picture that Hohes posted is an excellent example:



    If you saw that room in real life in that same situation you might think nothing of it. But the artist's painting of the scene gives it an artistic quality, creating art out of the mundane.

    There, that's my take on it.

    And, as I mentioned in another post in this forum not too long ago, I consider this to be art as well:

    ...Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...

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    Vera Lutter - read the article. the method is almost as interesting as the prints...and the fact that the prints are HUGE.
    http://www.bombsitebeta.com/issues/85/articles/2584


    Jim Rosenquist


    Ansel Adams
    not that I need to post any photos

    Hieronymus Bosch
    first one I found


    El Greco


    Velasquez
    Las Meninas - commonly regarded as one of the finest painting \ use of light in the world


    Picasso
    in general, but a cool take on the above


    and some of the stuff already posted

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    ...Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...

    "I enjoy skinny skiing, bullfights on acid..." - Lacy Underalls

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    Goya:

    Tres de maio


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    I agree w/ the emotional response thing. I think it's something that taps into your soul immediately. You recognize something that you can't name, but that is a part of you and of all of us.

    It's a moment caught in time that you can savor for longer, and that describes what we so often cannot say with mere words about life.

    In this case, it's that momentary rising of the emotion "Hey, get the fuck off my bed you're getting dog-hair all over it!"



    Or this one, "Man, I wish that creepy guy with the speedo and flippers would get off the beach...he's ruining my view"



    And of course there's the timeless "My milkshake brings all the boys in the yard."



    Art roolz!

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    I'm into photography right now. Here are some pics from Amy Stein's "Domesticated" series.





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    Quote Originally Posted by Summit View Post
    I like the Luminists

    I was able to view this painting at the Seattle Art Museum. I am not usually into illuminists, but this painting was absolutely stunning in real life!

    Also, I have to agree with most on this board. Art is what ever gets your emotions going. It could be your childs finger painting, or it could be a Van Gough. If somebody made it, and you dig it, than it's art to you!
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    Hohes - there's a big Hopper exibit at the National Gallery of Art right now - designed by a friend of mine, btw.

    I'm liking a lot of the art posted so far. Here are a few I've been thinking about lately:

    Brassai (thanks to Gunder's long exposure shots)



    Architecturally I get a kick out of Hundertwasser's "Waldspirale"



    and Gaudi's Casa Batllo:


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    charles scheeler



    to Bernd & Hilla Becher
    haven't found my favorite images online,but these are reminders of their stuff



    & richard diebenkorn's idea of landscape



    and winslow homer



    and JMW Turner



    and Donald Judd is favorite too


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    Andy was a work of art



    Go the the Dia in Beacon, NY someday to see the Serras. Perfect setting.



    Caravaggio was a madman. And made beautiful paintings.



    Picasso's blue paintings are neglected



    and let's not forget Rauschenberg. Go Yanks!


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    Have always loved this one.

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    Most of you have posted still art, but this is art too!

    http://thenorthproject.com/movie/NorthHD.html

    *I am in no way affiliated with this film*

    The North Project is artsy as fuck. The athletes, and especially the film producers and editors have created a ski film that is more artistic than anything I've ever seen before. It captures the feeling of skiing in a much different way than the typical ski movie. The North Project is art.

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    If there's one thing I've learned in recent years it's that non-artists like to dress like artists (same with designers, see interior decorators and fashion 'designers').

    where are the architecture mags in this thread??

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