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I hate murals. I know this is a monstrous thing to hate but I really do. It makes me tired to look at them.
I’m just amazed at what people would classify as “art”. I’d have my cat stick his paw in poop, wipe it on a piece of paper and I’m sure someone somewhere would buy it. 😈
I really loathe the Dada movement from back in the day and its nonsense ilk. Of all the forms we’ve studied in art history, it’s the one I absolutely hate the most.
I’m not a big fan of abstract art either, especially the kind where someone kicked over a gallon of paint on a ten foot canvas and called it ‘art’.
Wow. I know there are some forms I don’t get, but honestly, I am awed by most artforms.
The type I really don’t get are the giant modern sculptures that are like big geometric squigles that look like someone’s two year old got a hold of a crayon and the sculptor said “Lets make that, but 50 feet tall out of coat hangers” 😯
But I still am impressed that 1. The artist was able to make something that big, and 2. Someone actually bought it 😆The form I am impressed with most is realistic paintings/drawings. Especially furred and feathered crtitters. Carl Brenders is amazing. To be able to look at a painting and ask yourself if it’s a photograph is awe inspiring to me.
Also the people who can sit for 5 minutes and put such character into a sketch is just amazing to me!
Have you seen my mural?
I hope it doesn’t bore you! I don’t see how a mural is any different from a paint canvas.
I hate wire art. It just looks like junk to me…oh and I don’t like art created out of junk. Bleck.
I also hate it when very simple “pieces of art” are considered great and sold for thousands of dollars. At the Art Center here in Des Moines, there is a canvas with white paint on it….and you can see a few horizontal and vertical paint strokes….it was sold and purchased for 15 thousand dollars! 😯 How in the world they came up with that I’ll never know, but that is NOT art in my opinion!
I hate art that has no artistic concept behind it.
This applies to most modern art that are “just something noone would have ever put in a museum”.There are many other ways to get a person to think or to say a message without piling dung in a museum.
I used to live one year in Basel, Switzerland. Our art teacher took us to every museum there (ART Basel, Liste08) and our teachers, as you may already know, praised all the stuff to heaven. So when I say I saw and see shit then I mean it.what I also dislike (this isnt that easy to recognize) is artist who write down the idea and then get someone to do it and then call it THEIRS. Happens more than you’d think, and “all them collectors” greet it with OOOOOHHH WOOOOOW.
OK, must stop now, I’m like a boiling pot on the subject of art….
I dont like portraits as much…you know…the ones where the person is sitting there giving the artist a blank look. Animal portraits annoy me too, where the animal is just giving that blank look…I think it makes them look like zombies, creepy. Also….around here you’ll get the occasional person who vehemently swears that taxidermy is art. Some taxidermy is pretty cool… but I hate it when people set up their little landscapes of dead animals. Or decorate their homes with dead deer parts. ew. 🙄
Modern art. Blech. The type where there are a few smears on canvas and it’s supposed to represent man’s inhumanity to man or something like that.
eaglefeather831 wrote:Have you seen my mural?
I hope it doesn’t bore you! I don’t see how a mural is any different from a paint canvas.
I hate wire art. It just looks like junk to me…oh and I don’t like art created out of junk. Bleck.
I also hate it when very simple “pieces of art” are considered great and sold for thousands of dollars. At the Art Center here in Des Moines, there is a canvas with white paint on it….and you can see a few horizontal and vertical paint strokes….it was sold and purchased for 15 thousand dollars! 😯 How in the world they came up with that I’ll never know, but that is NOT art in my opinion!I don’t hate your mural, I don’t hate the art in them. (I love the Noah’s Ark theme) I hate the art form, meaning getting a volunteer crew to paint something on a huge wall. I have seen astounding art in murals. I have a friend who does that for a living and they are splendid. I hate the art form because all I can think about is how much work it would be to do, and how much your arm would hurt afterwards! The art form does not give me joy. Plus, sometimes the artists are way the heck up in the air on some scaffold and I am afraid of heights. I am very visceral about art, and I consider the whole deal, process and all, as part of any piece; it is the background story! The painting by PC’s kids is simply magnificent, your mural is gorgeous, because I can see the joy and love that went into them, and I feel it too.
I love to rant about art.The background story is why Mayah’s things are so magnificent to me, they are literally only the visible tip of an iceberg of meaning and depth.
The problem I have with modern art is only that it is difficult to fathom without the back story to understand it. Once you know it and see what the artist was thinking, you may realize that something you thought was an accidental splash on a canvas has actually cracked though a barrier that art was caged inside of. The sensation I get from looking at a Jackson Pollock is the feeling of my head cracking open. I like the sensation of wind on my brains.
Quote:Wire art would be a pain to keep clean, I imagine!
Oh, that is another one of my favorite rants about architecture: “Who is gonna have to clean that?” “How are you going to keep the pigeons from nesting there?” I suspect that crazy buildings are designed by hotshot architects that have probably never made their own bed.
We just painted a huge mural on one of our school buildings. It took months, but all the kids got to paint on it, and all the teachers and staff (if they wanted to). Some people didn’t like it, but I thought it was fun. It gave the kids so much pride in their school.
I painted on it, sitting on a scaffold. That was scary, and my leg fell asleep! But it was fun, and I’ll always be able to point and say, ‘I painted that girl’s shirt, and I painted that purple stoplight’.😀
Stephanie wrote:We just painted a huge mural on one of our school buildings. It took months, but all the kids got to paint on it, and all the teachers and staff (if they wanted to). Some people didn’t like it, but I thought it was fun. It gave the kids so much pride in their school.
I painted on it, sitting on a scaffold. That was scary, and my leg fell asleep! But it was fun, and I’ll always be able to point and say, ‘I painted that girl’s shirt, and I painted that purple stoplight’.😀You are making my arm hurt just thinking about it! 😆
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