Do you "get" art

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Personally to me its all a load of tosh.

I seriously do not get why people make so much fuss about it, be that old paintings (im like its a painting...), be that modern "art" (im usually like its a pile of ****...) etc etc

I look at the crazy values and prices and just dont get it. I would rather a nice poster of something I like than just about any art I have ever seen. Plus I can then rip it down and replace with something else at any time.

I do not consider things like night pictures of new york art, to me they are simply a snapshot of the real world, immortalised by being captured, but not art.

Am I a minority or for most people is art just a load of old ****
 
I adore old art, but most 'modern art' is a load of rubbish, just look at the 2012 Olympic posters!! Give me a master piece any day, over a pickled cow
 
If you think as art as a collecting hobby then it seems to make much more sense, people just want to have more art to expand their collection. In terms of what I think of art, well I don't really see any skill in a lot of modern art. That's the only quantifiable measure that I can judge art by, all the rest is very subjective.
 
Nope, it's one of the reasons I ended up getting a U in one of my art modules at A level, I couldn't put up with the amount of pretentious bullcrap I had to spout all the time, like having to justify why I'd painted something. Apparently 'I thought it looked nice' isn't good enough.
 
I believe art is real - expressionism. The question is how vain or not is the art, but it's definitely an essential part of this world.
 
I like bits of everything and hate bits of everything else! If I find it visually appealing I'm willing to have it in my place. I would not however pay many 0000000's for it!
 
The most layman way I find of looking at/explaining it is thinking of it like music. Music is an art, genres are styles.

Almost everyone likes or appreciates music but not everyone likes the same genre..

If you don't like any sort of art then. :(

Edit: Likewise if you don't like a genre so therefore don't consider it music or don't like a an art piece so don't consider it art, even a contradiction of the two.. also :(
 
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I don't 'get' a lot of art pieces, but there's the occassional one where I can relate to it or which I think is powerful. Van Gogh's wheatfield with crows is my favourite. Walking round the museum I couldnt give a stuff about the paintings of flowers or the various other ones, but that the wheatfield with crows one is quite dark and moody and is supposedly near to when he died, so its quite a powerful picture (in the flesh).

The only other bits of art I like are either 'clever' or massive in scale (eg the ceiling paintings in the basilica(?) in Rome).

These days I am more impressed by the layouts and artwork that people put together for websites, than paintings.
 
Ok take old masterpieces for example. Why are they considered anything special, without the option of photography they resorted to the best tech possible, manually spending hours to try to get a representation of someone famous/powerful onto canvas. When obviously they had to alter the images to suit the vain person spending a fortune to get it done.
Old landscape, again no camera so have to paint it. But its not creative its just taking a snapshot of what was there and painting it. Probably a darn site worse than a 20 year old camera would have done today.
Scenes such as the last feast are fiction, a guess no more.
 
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