Art As A Spiritual Quest.

[ralis]

ralis, if you ever have the opportunity to go to St. Petersburg/Tampa, FL, be sure to check out the small Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. I haven't been back since my first visit, but hope to some day.

 

That particular museum is on my list. The National Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian is absolutely mind blowing!

[ralis]

[ralis]

[zerostao]

Kandinsky

 

 

 

... and if anyone says modern art is rubbish ... bollocks to you.

art stays true to the spirit of the current age

this is the way its always been

we can each have our own personal favorite age

some may prefer the renaissance and others the post modern age

but we cannot go dissing any of them

an example of how art leads science is when jackson pollock's work gained the attention of scientists

and new fields in fluid dynamics physics came into being

[Simple_Jack]

Some art is made out of rubbish...

 

 

Recognize the lil' American tyke?

 

Is that "Honey Boo boo"?...Oh dear god, no...

[Simple_Jack]

WTF, is the meaning of someone or something being "spiritual"?

[ralis]

WTF, is the meaning of someone or something being "spiritual"?

 

Do you have an image to post and perhaps a comment as opposed to starting a rant that is more appropriate for another thread?

[Simple_Jack]

Do you have an image to post and perhaps a comment as opposed to starting a rant that is more appropriate for another thread?

 

[Simple_Jack]

Do you have an image to post and perhaps a comment as opposed to starting a rant that is more appropriate for another thread?

 

[Simple_Jack]

Do you have an image to post and perhaps a comment as opposed to starting a rant that is more appropriate for another thread?

 

[ralis]

 

Who is the artist? Is some of this photoshopped?

Edited July 12, 2013 by ralis

[Simple_Jack]

I don't know, it's a photoshop: http://laughingsquid.com/the-works-of-the-great-painting-masters-now-with-cats/

 

[Simple_Jack]

There's a whole freakin page dedicated to this: http://fatcatart.ru/?lang=en

 

[ralis]

I don't know, it's a photoshop: http://laughingsquid.com/the-works-of-the-great-painting-masters-now-with-cats/

 

 

Why ruin great masterpieces? Do these images have some meaning to you?

[Simple_Jack]

[Simple_Jack]

Why ruin great masterpieces? Do these images have some meaning to you?

 

Itz 4 teh LoLz!1!

[ralis]

Itz 4 teh LoLz!1!

 

Would you translate that from internet slang to English?

[Apech]

Itz 4 teh LoLz!1!

 

RU a filistine?

[ralis]

I get a kick out of you

 

Juliete Prowse was an amazing dancer. I fell in love with her when I was around 8 years old. I believe it was while watching an Elvis movie.

[zerostao]

simple jacks contributions here are kinda in the flavor of dadaism

and the dadaist , some of them , offered some merit, others imo not so much

penciling in a moustache on the mona lisa imo isnt art

it is more a statement that art shoudnt be looked at in the way the OP presents it

so as i much appreciate tristan tzara's manifesto ,(becoz it resolutes strongly with my anarchist ideal)

i am not so much in appreciation of their appreciation (lack of) for art

[zerostao]

i understand the spirit of the dadaist especially for their time.

they were frustrated and understanably so as the world wide madness of that time

was about to descend into the depths of hell of WW! in europe

so i can see them dissing the establishment of their time

but why diss on art from another age?

[ralis]

Are we venturing into deconstructionism/postmodernism? Are those movements any less spiritual than the great periods of classical art? Although classical was just another expression for the time.

[zerostao]

ok, sure when i first saw duchamps mona lisa i snickered but does that make it art?

does the artist use a brush that gives us very broad strokes, or,

is it a finer brush, one like dali used , that put you in awe,

that is a truer definition of art?

 

so the spirit of the age, the ideal, the idea and the energy contained in that age is what defines art really.

napolean on the horse, the landscape wasnt the focus. the alps are majestic and all that, but it was the ideal of napolean that captured the spirit of that age.

when the painting was produced it was hoped that the chap on the horse would be the liberator and the sacker of tyranny. i am sure the artist was later disapointed in how all of that turned out.

a hero boldly on a charged white horse crossing the alps to over turn tryanny was the ideal of the art.

[Apech]

 

Garnet Lake, California

-- Ansel Adams

 

 

Talk about an artist who could capture the essence of a landscape.

 

That's nice ... better than that chap on a horse anyway.

[Songtsan]

WTF, is the meaning of someone or something being "spiritual"?

 

divine! to some people the most mundane things can be spiritual - such as riding a motorcycle, or eating sushi. Personally, I aim to make everything spiritual, which for enlightened beings in the knowing, it always was/is...