Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<<Shoot it out of focus paint it red and call it art.>>> No kidding! Last month I went to the SFMOMA to see the Watkins exhibit of 19th century West Coast landscape photography (excellent!). Afterwards, I went downstairs to the modern collection....and to think I've been throwing away those out of focus pictures of my feet and the sidewalk on the beginning of the roll ... I had no idea they were considered museum quality! Perhaps most amazing was an all white painting in 3 panels from the 1950's -- not even brushworks because the "artist" wanted to convey the absence of artistic input! The proverbial white rabbit in a snow bank. Get some large canvas, a can of white satin latex and a Wagner Power Painter, and you could put out at least 5 or 6 an hour, if you were being careful! Tom Schofield >>>>>>>>>> This is bad, yuck, the muck of the art-thing. Get so creative that you create nothing. That's great. These people get all kinds of favors from the curators directors (please excuse yourself if not so...) who call it "art" if you have to stare at it for ten minutes and then it makes a blank statement. Hey, I don't mind staring at nice pictures, paintings, but I prefer that there be something to arouse my enjoyment via sight (i..e that looks great what is it?!) as opposed to intellect (hmm... what is this person expressing by such creative lack of artistic ability?) Of course give special credit to the "fine-art" experts who can't hold a camera but dictate a,b,c. Yes I know some great reps and curators, etc but the whole thing is unfortunately a race for creative creations of nothing. So they add the word "PALLADIUM" and the price doubles. Pinholes? That's creative. Nothing like a good pinhole shot. The photo - that's irrelevant - it's pinhole stuff.... - ------------------------------