[Closed] Great bit of art...

That's cool.

Very cool indeed!

Reminds me of this guy - http://www.willard-wigan.com/gallery.aspx

I met him on a flight back from somewhere or other. Really fascinating guy. He had a gadget that looked like a wall light with him, but was a portable "viewing device" to see some of his art. Astonishing stuff!

That's a great site, some cool stuff on there

Thanks for the link 😀

Beautiful work, that's really lovely stuff. Thanks for the link. 😀

Dats well cool.

Uhhh, pardon my pedantry, but that's an image cut into a leaf. A craft, yes, applied art maybe, but great art it certainly is not.

Tend to agree with muddy. Sorry.

[i]Uhhh, pardon my pedantry, but that's an image cut into a leaf. A craft, yes, applied art maybe, but great art it certainly is not[/i]

Gis some great art then...

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But that's just some gold leaf and paint stuck on some canvas.

I can take it or leaf it, personally.

That is great art, but on one level is just a bit of fancy painting and decorating...

Open your mind to what art can be, dawg.

You saps are all barking up the wrong tree.

My favourite artist:
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Not so good at skirting boards, that chap...

Great at walls though 😀

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muddyfunster- you may be unwashed but the use of "funster" in your user name is somewhat misleading as you are mr grumpy pants personified. 😀

fuddymunster

tazzymtb

muddyfunster- you may be unwashed but the use of "funster" in your user name is somewhat misleading as you are mr grumpy pants personified.

Sometimes very!

jam bo

But that's just some gold leaf and paint stuck on some canvas.

crikey

That is great art, but on one level is just a bit of fancy painting and decorating...

Open your mind to what art can be, dawg.

I'm not really going to get drawn into some sort of churlish debate about what is and isn't art but suffice it to say I have a broader and more open minded gauge than most.

Art = Anything that doesn't have any other use beyond it's aesthetic qualities.

I'm not really going to get drawn into some sort of churlish debate about what is and isn't art

Probably best not to say something like...

Uhhh, pardon my pedantry, but that's an image cut into a leaf. A craft, yes, applied art maybe, but great art it certainly is not.

when the objects in the OP's link are obviously beyond "craft".

he could have ironed the sheet

[i]I'm not really going to get drawn into some sort of churlish debate about what is and isn't art but suffice it to say I have a broader and more open minded gauge than most plants[/i]

I be Mr. Fix it fer ya!

Art - I'd rather spunk £100 on an original Klimt than an original 'Bloke who can cut a tree into a leaf'.

deadlydarcy

when the objects in the OP's link are obviously beyond "craft".

No. Not in the slightest.

No. Not in the slightest.

I thought you said you weren't getting drawn in.

Damn it!!

Personally i don't get Klimt, spent a fair chunk of an afternoon wi an old gf (a fine art graduate) as we both sat in the Belvedere viewing the original under the influence of some very decent blotter acid but i just did not get into it at all, Jackson Pollack on the other hand...now that is my kinda art as i seem to get drawn further and further in till i start to see visions in his brush strokes.

Damn it!!

😀

Tbh dude, as countless debates on STW have shown, it's pointless trying to draw an arbitrary line where one crosses into "art". Probably best to leave it in the eye of the beholder. Then we're all happy with what visual and sensory things enrich our souls.

Jackson Pollack on the other hand...now that is my kinda art as i seem to get drawn further and further in till i start to see visions in his brush strokes.

Agree - Rothko has much the same effect on me too.

Sort of ephemera that appeals to the visually unaware when wandering round a craft stall.

Oh look, another of STW's Mr Angrys has dropped in.

Angry ❓
Lol

Mr Casually Insulting then.

Err, lol.

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Sort of ephemera that appeals to the visually unaware when wandering round a craft stall.

What I wanted to say, but not smart enough after a few pints.

How is a different opinion insulting?
I thought I was just stating the obvious 😆

somafunk - Member

Personally i don't get Klimt,

I was going to stick up Caravaggio, but decided not to because it's just a bit too obvious. I chose a Klimt for a few reasons. His technique, his technical ability was amazing. Just stunning, total mastery of anatomy and proportion. Stylised, full of emotion and expression and believable at the same time. His sketches show this best, he was technically as good as a renaissance master. Then his painting is a technical tour de force too, just his brushwork alone is stunning, but when combined mixed media (so naturally and effectivley) it becomes something else. Then, quite beyond that, the image has become iconic, it's become popular cultural, iconic, cliched even.

So whilst you may not love it, I think it represents a lot of the key values of what it means to be great art. Not that those are "rules". But it's hard to argue with it imo.

Don't get me wrong m-funster - Klimt is ok but i just don't like or appreciate his so called "erotic style" and whilst i can admire the incredible detail and uncontrollable desire as expressed by the tight embrace from the male perspective against the the woman's seemingly stand-offish stance in the "KIss" it was the initial complexity of the painting which was the non-deal breaker for me - i don't like the fussy nature at all, you'd have got on well with my ex as she was fascinated by all his works and in fact i think she now works in venice (we dropped out of touch over 10yrs ago) where as i loved Pollack as I've mentioned along with the likes of the 1969 Rothko "suicide piece" as posted earlier, I am more than content to sit for hours at a time in front of any pollack or rothko work, sit me in front of rothko's tryptichs and you'll have to remind me to eat, shit and piss never mind breathe....i'm not joking or saying that for the stw effect either as they seem to mess with my head and i truly don't understand why i find them so transfixing to view?, which i guess is what art is all about - questioning yourself, after all they do appear rather simple, it's confusing, it messes with your presumptions, they make me feel uneasy but they trully deserve a valid response from the idle viewer and that is why i get excited bout them.

I've tried many times to paint something similar on my facing living room wall as i have a stove mid-mounted set flush in my wall and despite trying to copy his art colour for colour, brush stroke for brush stroke they always turn out a friggin mess so that's why my wall is now has the plaster ripped off back to brickwor - i've tried so many times to paint on top of paint that i need to get it re-plastered smooth.

I enjoyed it. I didn't enjoy the shiny thing, or coloured walls. Leaf win 🙂

That is no more 'great art' than a ship in a bottle.

Somafunk..

I'd like to ask a favour if I may.. I'd be interested to get your opinion on a painting that I've got a great deal of time for..

I've heard it likened to Pollack, but I'm not really interested in drawing any comparisons.. It wasn't painted with Pollack in mind and in fact the inspiration came from a very different angle indeed..
It would interest me greatly however, to find out if this piece could hold any intrigue for such a genuinely passionate Pollack fan..

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obviously you're not going to get the same effect viewing it online as you might in the flesh, but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts nonetheless..

Interesting reading the differing opinions as someone who rarely gets 'art'. Some of the tryptyks are nice, the more colourful ones, but others look very plain so guessing you need to see them in the flesh. The leaf's very skilful too but then if we can build nanobots it's maybe not that surprising. The sculptures in the eye of a needle are quite interesting too but more so for the artist's ability to create them.

Interesting pic Yunki, i hope you don't mind but i imported it into photoshop which i am trying to get to grips with, I only recently bought it but i've not much clue yet how to actually use it, yeah i know practice...practice...practice but how many folk actually read instruction manuals?.

Your original was interesting but my eyes kept getting drawn to the bottom left corner which shouldn't be there in that block form (my uneducated opinion, i am in no way arty in the slightest and don't know what i'm talking about so please ignore me) and the portrait mode didn't seem to do the stereoscopic nature of the picture any favours so i rotated it in photoshop, cropped the section off that annoyed me (sorry 😕 ) and adjusted the hue/saturation levels very slightly by a few % and i now feel i'd be more than happy to have it on my wall, it seems to have a tad more impact and is rather visually arresting but i wish i had the photoshop skill to show what i'd do with what's left of the bottom right, ideally i'd like to transpose the top left, but not exactly the same, down into the bottom right area.

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I'd have it if there was a couple of changes as above - did you paint it?.... if so [img] http://www.cool-smileys.com/clapping-smiley ][img] http://www.cool-smileys.com/images/207.gi f" target="_blank">http://www.cool-smileys.com/clapping-smiley ][img] http://www.cool-smileys.com/images/207.gi f"/> [/img][/url][/img] my efforts to paint on my wall so far have been extremely demoralising to say the least, gonna get a good friend to do me something rothko (ish) next time she's down this way.

well yeah I did paint it..
I was doing a bit of an experiment in using photoshop as a tool for sketching, rather than pencil, and then realised that I could take it a bit further and sketch in colour, and adjust composition, tone and completely manipulate the image etc etc..

I did end up meticulously painting the finished pieces onto canvas by hand.. a perverse sense of irony..? the peice there is 1200mm x 400mm [img] [/img]

did you suss it was a photoshop image straight away..?

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did you suss it was a photoshop image straight away..?

Not immediately as i viewed it on the site link you posted but upon importing it into PS, well?....... yeah i did.

So photoshop to lay it out then onto canvas?, makes sense to do it that way i guess as paint and equipment is expensive....I know from all of my balls-ups....from what i've spent on materials to the amount of time i've wasted, not to mention the sheer frustration at not being good enough I expect I could've bought a canvas from a gallery.

Do you sell your work? - any links to other stuff you've done or can you recommend any online galleries to browse through?

I was affiliated with a couple of trendy galleries, but at the moment I'm up to my eyeballs in nappies and lego and chaos and grief being a full time stay at home dad.. so any art career that I might aspire to is on hold for a few years

If you're interested in looking at some more stuff, drop me an email and I can send you some more info that way..
I've not got any stuff for sale at the moment, but I'm always willing to discuss commissions..

email in profile.. 🙂

Yeah?, will do later.