I don't know much about Art, but dot dot dot

[Red Willow]

Went to the Guggenheim in Bilboa recently, their artwork included an Olive tree planted in a pot, and a tin can burning ethanol.  

[Futtocks]

7 minutes ago, Red Willow said:

Went to the Guggenheim in Bilboa recently, their artwork included an Olive tree planted in a pot, and a tin can burning ethanol.  

"Art is what you can get away with" (Andy Warhol).

Ever noticed how all those infuriated people who say "I could do that and make a fortune!" never manage to do it?

[DavidM]

I liked Tony Hart

[JohnM]

It seems the phrase  " I don't know much about xxx but I know....." originates in this book: 

Are You a Bromide? The most recent researches into the psychology of boredom : including many well-known bromidioms now in use

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10870

 

[Red Willow]

13 hours ago, Futtocks said:

"Art is what you can get away with" (Andy Warhol).

Ever noticed how all those infuriated people who say "I could do that and make a fortune!" never manage to do it?

It's getting the name known in the first place, the Olive Tree was by Yoko Ono. Her only input was to scribble on the pot. Her profile was raised by association with Lennon, although she was known in the 60s not sure her art work would have kept her  in the public eye 50 years on.

[Wolford6]

The New Beehive pub in Bradford has closed and is likely to be converted to offices and flats. The lounge featured two fantastic murals (~ 4m long and on boards) of pubs whose customers were dead rock stars. They were done by a local artist called Jim Smith.  I hope the former owner has taken those murals with him.

[gingerjon]

2 hours ago, Wolford6 said:

The New Beehive pub in Bradford has closed and is likely to be converted to offices and flats. The lounge featured two fantastic murals (~ 4m long and on boards) of pubs whose customers were dead rock stars. They were done by a local artist called Jim Smith.  I hope the former owner has taken those murals with him.

It's listed - for what that's worth now that nobody has enforcement officers.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1480282?section=official-list-entry

Edited October 25, 2022 by gingerjon

[Phil]

On 25/10/2022 at 07:27, Wolford6 said:

The New Beehive pub in Bradford has closed and is likely to be converted to offices and flats. The lounge featured two fantastic murals (~ 4m long and on boards) of pubs whose customers were dead rock stars. They were done by a local artist called Jim Smith.  I hope the former owner has taken those murals with him.

B*gg*r had some cracking times there in the past

[JohnM]

I don't know much about art but....I don't know if it's upside down or not, either..

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/28/mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years

[gingerjon]

2 minutes ago, JohnM said:

I don't know much about art but....I don't know if it's upside down or not, either..

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/28/mondrian-painting-has-been-hanging-upside-down-for-75-years

A mere detail.

My favourite art error is one you'll see in pretty much every gallery, museum and collection around the world.

Classical-era sculptures were not pristine white. They were ridiculously garishly coloured.

[JohnM]

Yes indeed. Heavily painted,I believe.

[gingerjon]

1 hour ago, JohnM said:

Yes indeed. Heavily painted,I believe.

Yup.

But initially the Renaissance types and then 18th/19th century collectors preferred polished white ... so even when the paint survived it was brushed off.

[Futtocks]

 

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

On 31/10/2022 at 09:08, gingerjon said:

A mere detail.

My favourite art error is one you'll see in pretty much every gallery, museum and collection around the world.

Classical-era sculptures were not pristine white. They were ridiculously garishly coloured.

 

On 31/10/2022 at 10:42, gingerjon said:

Yup.

But initially the Renaissance types and then 18th/19th century collectors preferred polished white ... so even when the paint survived it was brushed off.

This is a bit like churches in this country.  Many would have had brightly coloured ceilings and walls.  Where these survive, they are nowadays much revered (and probably very faded through the passage of time), but what a lot were obliterated long ago, as a - literally - puritanical view of what was 'suitable' for churches prevailed.

On this point, if anybody is in, or planning to visit, Somerset, you might want to visit St Peter & St Paul's in the small village of Muchelney, on the Levels.  It has a brightly painted ceiling full of rather odd, androgenous looking angels, some bare breasted!  As I recall, it is 16th century, so late for such art.  Wells has a large, fine church - St Cuthbert's - sometimes mistaken by tourists for the cathedral (until they see the cathedral!).  Recent - ish -ly, the celing has been really brightly painted, to show what a church ceiling some hundreds of years ago could have looked like.  I gather not everybody likes it, but I certainly do.  Praising God, if you feel so inclined, needn't be dull!

[Futtocks]

This looks like it was fun to recreate.

 

[Wolford6]

Anyone watch Byzantium on BBC4 this week. Greek statues of Medusa's head were ofen placed upside down or horisontally. This was to emphasise that the "real" Medusa could turn you to stone if you looked directly into her eyes.

[Futtocks]

 

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

On 24/01/2023 at 19:48, Futtocks said:

 

What was that Prague thing that got repainted really badly?

[Wolford6]

I've several original paintings. Mostly of views from my valley. However,  in my bedroom, I've got a painting of Eddy "Cleanhead Vinson ... a jazz/blues sax player and singer. It's about five feet tall, painted about forty years ago by a friend of my sister.

I've spent the last half an hour trying to post a photo of it on here, but the system won't have it.

According to my computer, one jpeg is only about 50 kb but still no joy.

Edited January 26, 2023 by Wolford6

[Wolford6]

Still won't have it.

Edited January 29, 2023 by Wolford6

[Wolford6]

4 minutes ago, Wolford6 said:

Still still won't have it.

I wasn't cut out for this century.

Edited January 29, 2023 by Wolford6