Is it BAD art if you love it?

dark_crystal · 08-24-2011, 11:51 AM

I am of two minds on the subject.

In the first place, this quote from Thomas Kinkade makes me feel quite stabby:

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art. We have found a way to bring to millions of people, an art that they can understand.

On the other hand, having been through a very formal fine arts conservatory program, it was my experience that art which is considered "capital "a" Art," as in the Fine Art that makes it into NYC galleries and the Venice Biennale, is largely unintelligible to 99.99% of the population.

Art that only makes sense to people who have been through very formal fine arts conservatory programs also makes me feel stabby

i don't like the pandering Thomas Kinkade does, but i don't like that ivory tower crap either.

ETA: all of my toys are in dioramas. the most awesomely ridiculous being the three cabbage patch kids sitting naked in a galvanized tub, up to their chins in bubbles painstakingly cut from an entire roll of bubblewrap

View Poll Results: Is it BAD art if you love it? They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder; is appreciation in the
Is there a velvet Elvis over your mantel?	7	14.89%
Do Dali's clocks drip from your table top?	16	34.04%
Do you have a pyramid of Brillo boxes in your pantry?	4	8.51%
Did you paint your mother's portrait as a cube with three eyes?	5	10.64%
Have all your leftover marshmallow Peeps been glued and framed?	7	14.89%
Are your Barbies in dioramas?	7	14.89%
Are all the clowns crying in their frames?	1	2.13%
If you look hard can you see the numbers though the paint?	8	17.02%
Are balloon animals involved?	4	8.51%
If shrunk down to its original size is it a comic strip?	13	27.66%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 47. You may not vote on this poll

08-24-2011, 11:51 AM	#12
dark_crystal Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: jenny Preferred Pronoun?: babygirl Relationship Status: First Lady of the United SMH Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 5,445 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,532 Thanked 26,550 Times in 4,688 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	I am of two minds on the subject. In the first place, this quote from Thomas Kinkade makes me feel quite stabby: There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art. We have found a way to bring to millions of people, an art that they can understand. On the other hand, having been through a very formal fine arts conservatory program, it was my experience that art which is considered "capital "a" Art," as in the Fine Art that makes it into NYC galleries and the Venice Biennale, is largely unintelligible to 99.99% of the population. Art that only makes sense to people who have been through very formal fine arts conservatory programs also makes me feel stabby i don't like the pandering Thomas Kinkade does, but i don't like that ivory tower crap either. ETA: all of my toys are in dioramas. the most awesomely ridiculous being the three cabbage patch kids sitting naked in a galvanized tub, up to their chins in bubbles painstakingly cut from an entire roll of bubblewrap __________________