10/4/2003: Lumpy sculpture
 

http://cellar.org/2003/kapoor.jpg

The official caption: A visitor stands in front of a sculpture by British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor in the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, Austria September 26, 2003. Kapoor is among the most prominent figures in British sculpture.

I like this one a lot because here's something you really put yourself into. Playful or serious? Sexual or cancerous? Brilliant or goofy? You make the call.

This is one of those things that non-art fans like Hubris would quickly dismiss. But I think it's cool how people can make art out of damned near anything...that's creativity.

Here is the gallery's site in English, with a link to the exhibit.

It's a neat picture but . . .
 

I suddenly have an urge to pop a pimple . . . . :vomit:

Re: It's a neat picture but . . .
 

The visitor appears to be getting ready to do just that with whatever is in his or her right hand.

Pat suddenly realized where the dog had gotten off to during the wallpapering...

I feel an animated GIF coming on....

What's creative about picking anything and calling it art? Hell, I can dig a hole and call it art. I see this bump in the wall and think it's cool. It's unexpected and amusing but art?
I want to know how they move that lump from gallery to gallery. Maybe it's "landlord art". Art the stays with the property.

It's in the eye of the beholder, my friend. One man's art is another man's elephant dung.

Well, "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like".
Does that mean if I like it, it qualifies as art, and visa versa? I don't think so because there are museums full of "art" I don't like. Yet, I see things every day that strike me as visually appealing because of color/form/composition that aren't classified as art. Does something become art because a group of "art experts" decided it met certain criteria? What the hell IS art??

It's what I decide, so shut the fuck up and like it!

In general, I think part of it is decided by art experts, part of it is decided by general consensus and part is decided by the creator. That's why if/when you go to the Art Museum, you're bound to see some things that you think are artworthy, and others that are just crap.

I myself give a rather broad definition to art, which is derided by the "common man" and art nazis. Fuck them...if I think it's art, then it's art to me. So from that perspective, it really is in the eye of the beholder.

Ury, couldn't stop laughing over this one ... I was pondering a way to humorously point out the gender ambiguity of the individual in the photo, but you WIN.

He's thinking that the wall looks like his jutting adam's apple, which would be a counter-point to any you'd have made.

Quzah.

I think that's just where the shirt ends and the neck starts. The white of the shirt blends into the wall (mimicking, in reverse, the big ol' lumpy thing on the wall, kind of).

Heh - this phrase can be parsed in more than one way, just like art.