quick question; what is art?

4 June, 2008 – 8:33 pm

i’ve been thinking, after those two tweets earlier this month:

so there’s some pretty messed up ‘art’ in the degraves underpass this morning…
08:15 May 01, 2008

that “art” has been covered up! yay, no more full frontal nudity on the way to work!
08:57 AM May 19, 2008

so what is art?

umm, pretty big question, i guess this month i’ve been trying to define it for myself…

is it just stuff i appreciate?
maybe stuff i couldn’t actually create myself?

i mean, you read about people “pushing the boundaries” and challenging us with their art…
…but as a viewer, can being subjected to sometimes horrific scenes be considered art?

hmm, i should explain… i walk through the campbell arcade every day on the way to work and the exhibit in one of the display cases was probably 60 photographs lined up in a grid. each of the photos showed the top half of a shirtless guy wearing a executioner style hood, but in each of the photos the hood was made of different material. materials like zebra print velour or hot pink something… and it went on and on…

btw, seeing as everything i know about S&M i learnt from CSI, i couldn’t help but feel like the other exhibits in the arcade contributed to a very S&M slant (the artist was probably trying challenge me or push boundaries **groan** ) and then in the bottom right corner of the case was a bigger photograph of the model, but full body, so full frontal nude guy, wearing a hood/mask thing.

consider the boundary pushed.

in a gallery, maybe that exhibition would be ok, but in a walkway to a train station? not so much.

you only have to watch a couple of episodes of epic-fu to see new art is alive and well (and it doesn’t even lower itself to trying to shock you)…

so yeah, my opinion?

unnecessary photos of nudes smacks of no-talent clowns looking for attention.

make sense? i guess it doesn’t matter.





















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  1. One Response to “quick question; what is art?”

  2. I totally agree. sensationalism, pushing the boundaries etc all essentially contributing to the “normalisation” of the extreme and depraved. This crap is NOT reasonable behaviour, is NOT acceptable, and should NOT be tolerated. See also the museum exhibit that has been shut down last month.

    By Rob on Jun 5, 2008

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