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Jimbits76

Art you just don't get!

The book thread had me thinking.

Is there a book, film, album, artwork that you just don't get?

It's not about a lack of taste or intelligence, there are just somethings that don't ignite the spark within you.

Emporer's new clothes or misunderstood masterpiece.

Be honest, hopefully other members that may love what you don't like can offer gentle pointers or a small essay on why they feel the way they do about it!

J
uncle aj

I just don't get the Turner Prize.  Pictures made up from elephant dung, bits of dead cow or a light going on and off.  Sorry, give me a Dutch master or even a Picasso.  
daveathall

I know what you mean Jim, music is classed as Art so here goes, I know I might get excomunicated but I just didnt get Dire Straits, they were all the fashion, nobody in the whole world disliked them or their music but me.

People used to look at me as though I had grown a second head when I mentioned it, some even started singing "I want my, I want my MTV" as if this would suddenly convert me into a believer.


           
Now Kajagoogoo or The Goombay dance band thats a different matter. (some of the younger members wont have a dolly what Im on about here.   )
uncle aj

Sultan's of Swing was the best thing Dire Straights did, as far as I'm concerned, the rest was a variation of the same tune.
Jimbits76

I'd go one further Adrian and say the solo in Sultans of Swing was teh best thing Dire Straits did.

J
uncle aj

Jimbits76 wrote:
I'd go one further Adrian and say the solo in Sultans of Swing was teh best thing Dire Straits did.

J

I think I'd have to agree Jim and thank goodness Dave hasn't found that cheese thread yet.  
Lisa

I'd have to agree with Adrian - I'd forgotten the artist but remember the art - the decomposing cow's head and such.  Was it the same artist who produced "p**s Christ?"  

I think you'll have an interesting answer, Jim - but how would you define the word "art?"  If one's reaction to it is confusion, or dismay, would it be something besides art to that person?  I guess when I think of art I think of things that are pleasing to the senses.
Jimbits76

Things I don't get...

Underworld by Don Delillo. Is it becuase I'm English? Do you need a past soaked in Americana? Should I see baseball linked to the cuban missile crisis? Interweaving narratives and threads, characters, fears, loves and lives is the book a metaphor for America itself?

This is critically regarded as a great book but possibly overlong. When I bought the original edition there was much fanfare that this is the great modern American novel.

Not to do a disservice to the author or his fans but I have to admit it and hate to say it is always at the forefront of my mind as the book I gave up on.

J
uncle aj

Lisa wrote:
I'd have to agree with Adrian - I'd forgotten the artist but remember the art - the decomposing cow's head and such.  Was it the same artist who produced "p**s Christ?"  

I think you'll have an interesting answer, Jim - but how would you define the word "art?"  If one's reaction to it is confusion, or dismay, would it be something besides art to that person?  I guess when I think of art I think of things that are pleasing to the senses.


Damien Hirst I think?  
Jimbits76

Damien hirst.

I have to say that I personally think The physical impossibillity of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (the shark in a tank) is a spectacular piece of art.

It generates conversation and blurs boundaries. Does it represent both a striking portrayal of life and mortality in the same object? Awe and fear? Beautiful or hideous? An angel of death?

Or as Claire would say, it's a dead fish in a box with a posh name!

J
uncle aj

Jimbits76 wrote:
Damien hirst.

I have to say that I personally think The physical impossibillity of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (the shark in a tank) is a spectacular piece of art.

It generates conversation and blurs boundaries. Does it represent both a striking portrayal of life and mortality in the same object? Awe and fear? Beautiful or hideous? An angel of death?

Or as Claire would say, it's a dead fish in a box with a posh name!

J


I like Claire.  
Jimbits76

Me too!

J
jdc

Interesting Rosemary and I were taken around Tate Modern recently by one of the managers, having the work explained as the artist intended made it a lot more relevant. You don't have to agree but it is interesting. "Thirty pieces of silver" by Cornelia Parker was a good example. Very thought provoking which is what art should be IMO.

I should add that most good art should not be that obvious
jdc

one of my favourites

http://images.google.co.uk/images...&resnum=6&ved=0CC0QsAQwBQ

First image is on a wall in the city I live in Brighton
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