Re: Modern art, art or just a big con ?
 

What art is, is open to interpretation.

To some opera is high art, to others it's just a big woman warbling.:D

Re: Modern art, art or just a big con ?
 

I wouldn't pay tuppence for it either. ;)

Re: Modern art, art or just a big con ?
 

I think art is what the individual person lookin sees in anything, having said that I still can't get my head round a soiled bed, a light going on and off in and empty room or a constantly dripping tap have got to do with art:confused::confused::confused::confused:

Re: Modern art, art or just a big con ?
 

Re: Modern art, art or just a big con ?
 

'An American lady travelling to Paris in 1913 - the kind of American lady who will still be travelling to Paris in 2013 - asked Ezra Pound what he thought art was for. Pound replied, 'Ask me what a rose bush is for.'


'I know of a man, a Quaker, who volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War Two. While other men had pictures of their sweethearts in their breast pockets, he carried a photo of a Queen Anne chair.'


Jeanette Winterson - Journalism - The Guardian - 2002 - What is art for?

Re: Modern art, art or just a big con ?
 

Very interesting read there Garinda. Thanks for posting it.

Perhaps this thread should be retitled, art to choke hearts? ;)

Re: Modern art, art or just a big con ?
 

The play Art is all about three friends - one of them is a minimalist who lives in a white apartment, he buys a white painting and hangs it on the wall. His friends can't see the point. Doesn't seem much of a plot for a play but apparently the whole thing is really funny.

Re: Modern art, art or just a big con ?
 

Re: Modern art, art or just a big con ?
 

Art the play, is very funny, and worth catching if you get the chance. I saw it in London in the mid nineties, with Tom Courtenay, Ken Stott, and Albert Finney, they were wonderful.