Is it BAD art if you love it?

deb_U_taunt · 08-24-2011, 03:41 PM

I am guilty of owning 'bad' art.
I have older tapestries of dogs playing poker and billards. I have a bronze mermaid lamp, her nipples light, too. I have a large spoon and fork hanging in my kitchen, present from a friends grandma.
I have a few cheese pieces around the house.

Reader · 08-24-2011, 03:57 PM

Is any art bad? Isn't "bad art" an oxymoron?

Dean Thoreau · 08-24-2011, 04:20 PM

Is it a question of being good or bad art or just if it is
ART?

I mean some stuff..u just have to wonder.....
many years ago when my one daughter was aobut 5 we went to this gallery opening and there in the corner was about 30 computer monitors..in a pile....
my daughter says oh mommy look at the mess......the artist got kind of upset, seems it was an installation.....(I was the one writing the review on it for a local paper)....and quoted my daughter....

Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I believe art is as well......
My style taste,,,is different than yours..thank goodness there are different forms, types and genres of it so we all can hang what we think is wonderful and beautiful on our walls..or in my case...put on my lawn.....
Dont get art cause u think it is what u are supposed to like...then it truly is bad art..cause it is inhibiting your self excpression throu the style of art you truly love.

dark_crystal · 08-24-2011, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Debby

I have older tapestries of dogs playing poker and billards. I have a bronze mermaid lamp, her nipples light, too. I have a large spoon and fork hanging in my kitchen

Dean Thoreau · 08-24-2011, 05:41 PM

Debby!!! I love those giant forks and spoons..I saw some at Pier one the other day....jen and I both wanted them actually if they go on sale they will probably be in our kitchen....I dont like to pay full price.......I keep hoping one of the auctions i go to will have some.....

T4Texas · 08-24-2011, 06:48 PM

I don't think theres any such thing as bad art. Even stick people constitute art as seen on the back windows of so many cars today expressing the numbers and types of family members that ride in them. You can have ten people looking at a painting and they will all give you a different critique of it. Art is whatever moves you, really moves you. Touches a place inside you, makes you want to cry, or makes you think "that's so cool I want to hang it on my wall". That's art.

WolfyOne · 08-24-2011, 07:01 PM

If all I could draw was stick figures, it would be MY art and I'd think it to be good no matter what others thought or think.

Basically, if I create it and call it ART, it's art
It is as you say, my eye of beauty
Besides, art can take on many forms

femmennoir · 08-24-2011, 07:34 PM

I think if I like something, it is something I like. Which does not mean it is art.
When I look at the Nike of Samothrace in the Louvre and I stay spellbound, transported beyond myself and beyond time, experiencing feelings of unity with the universe, and an ineffable joy, I am in the presence of art.
What is called art today rarely transports me beyond myself and beyond time. Some of it pleases me, some of it I like, some of it leaves me indifferent, some of it I despise. I will defend anyone's right to have a velvet Elvis on their mantelpiece, while surrounding myself with Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo period.

Elle*

Turtle · 08-25-2011, 12:37 AM

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What is art?

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%
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