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moana (profile) wrote,
on 11-23-2006 at 4:33pm
Music: The Cure - Lovecats
Subject: So wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully pretty...

We watched a video today in one of the artistic forms of expression classes. I wasn't in the class, but I knew there was going to be something interesting going on there, so I went. Then we watched a fifteen minute video of a guy's hands. Just two hands, someone's pair of hands. The right hand made a fist, then the left hand pointed a finger. Then the guy proceeded to put his finger in and out of the little hole made by his fist. This was a fifteen minute long video. He altered speed, force, camera angles, but the gist remained the same throughout.

And someone called this "art".

And that motherfucking makes me sick.
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cowboy67

11-23-06 11:51am

well, there's the western ideal of aesthetic-oriented art, and then there's a radical reaction to it in which action and behavior become conceptual art. the intent is the art, not so much the medium in which it is employed.

i learned this from my sister, the art major.

she made an art exhibit about me, in which she typed up portions of things i'd written in my journal and stuck them inside 5 or 6 mirrored medicine cabinets. the purpose and idea behind it: to make a person face themselves in a mirror and look at what/who they think they are, and then to see the contrast of what a person like me feels. by opening the mirror door, they've broken into another's life, breaking privacy. they read the most personal information about a person that they could possibly read, and then just like in real life, they get to close the door and walk away unaffected, while the person in torture is still locked up inside the cabinet.

conceptual art can be very powerful. i understand that the hands didn't do much for you, but it can still be art ;-)

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guajiragoddess

11-26-06 11:32pm

I don't know what either of you are talking about. I had to follow a really intelligent woman around the Prado in order to understand what I was supposed to appreciate. I mean, really, should I have known that Velasquez's Las Meninas has six points of light? I don't know what to label art - yours, Laurence's,

I don't even know what the difference is between appreciating art and just 'liking' it.

Hey, remember when I'd read the fortune cookies on Sunday? *sniffle*



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