Do you "get" art

I get some of it and do appreciate and enjoy art of the more "Renaissance" era but some impressionism too. I can appreciate the skill in some modern art, but don't really get some of the more "quirky" modern art.

Art in form of photography, theatre, music and other forms of art I usually can relate more closely to. However, it's important to understand some of the more influential pieces of art of the past IMO.

What I don't like about art is all the pretentious excessive poncy side of it which unfortunately mar an otherwise interesting aspect of society.
 
I think art is about capturing the beauty in life, This is why I often prefer the older pieces as i love to drink in the details of the brush strokes and I love huge pieces like ceiling art in places of worship. I quite like old architecture too, I guess I am generally old fashioned :D
 
Some, but the majority i think is terrible. I think photographic art is great.

Modern art however, only the other day a cleaner cleaned up what was thought to be a spillage, turns out it was an exhibition!
Pretty much sums it up.
 
paintings of actual things like people or landscapes yes, some splodges or lines on a page, no.

same for a scrunched up piece of paper of a pile of cans, not art, just a piece of paper and a pile of crap.
 
I love art!

But only because I can spout BS about it and look intelligent. It's fun and easy :p

But otherwise, I don't get why people get so worked up about some crap :rolleyes:
 
I enjoy art and that includes a lot of the modern stuff but I have never quite left the Renaissance. I know where my first stop would be with a time machine. :D
 
Most modern art is utter crap. Occasionally literally.

Besides that, loads of art is amazing.

If you're going to say all art is rubbish... You may as well say that all films are rubbish, or all music is rubbish. It's patently a ridiculous thing to say.
 
I like to look at art as each to their own.

For example, I may absolutely love the look of a car or bike. It can actually excite me. I can go into want mode and spend the rest of the day daydreaming about how badly i want to buy what I saw earlier.

To someone else it most probably does absolutely nothing.

Same as 90% of art does absolutely nothing for me. But I'm sure it does for someone else. Enough to make it valuable enough to even sometimes start a bidding war.
 
I love art, I wish I a) had space and b) had money for a lot more. Don't like Tait sort of pish, every year everyone is shocked another rusted coathanger got it etc and I do wish that the press would stop moaning about so I in turn wouldn't catch snippets of their dull wailing articles decrying what really is their own obsession with going and writing about it.

But yeah, art is well cool. Art can be very powerful.
 
I like all kinds of art, even the modern stuff. Some like meaning or beauty (both subjective) handed on a plate, others like to think about it more and reach their own conclusions. Both are perfectly valid ways of seeing things.
 
The thing is, the fact that it got you talking, it has done its job. It provoked a reaction. Whether it is good or crap (literally) or not, it deserve to exist because you acknowledged it by merely talking about it.
 
Raymond Lin said:
The thing is, the fact that it got you talking, it has done its job. It provoked a reaction. Whether it is good or crap (literally) or not, it deserve to exist because you acknowledged it by merely talking about it.
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I don't buy that as a valid definition of art, but I know a lot of people use that as a yardstick.
 
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