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01/18/2016 10:54:20 AM · #1676 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
My first BIG BUTT! Thanks, Jagar! |
Funny, that happened to this guy too ... |
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01/18/2016 11:16:41 AM · #1677 |
2015 ballon d'art
 to  by  jmritz to keep her flying
 to  by  tvsometime for filling with wonders
to  by aslezak for a slice of his thoughts
 to  by  mariuca for a dissonance
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01/18/2016 11:20:36 AM · #1678 |
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comments on images. |
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01/18/2016 12:41:09 PM · #1679 |
Ha! Thanks John for the appreciative wave. |
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01/18/2016 12:47:50 PM · #1680 |
What is Art?
Art has one shoe on and one shoe off. It is covered in artifice but still feels the ground below its feet. Art is a bag half full. Art is coat over a tutu. Art is a beautiful lie. It takes a trivial moment and fills it with symbolic importance. We laugh or we cry over nothing.
Art is a sandstorm, obscuring the distracting details only to confuse us with the few remaining elements dancing strangely together. Art has a strange sense of time and space, leaving too much room so we are forced to see what we would otherwise miss.
The artist is at once nakedly vulnerable, and hidden under layer after layer.
Art is a huge obvious arrow pointing to a door that's closed. Each viewer opens the door for him/herself and sees what they want to see. Or they examine the textures of the door.
Art juxtaposes near and far and puts you in the middle of it. Art screams danger when there is none, so we understand the danger we don't see. Art shows us silhouettes because it forces us not to see what's not important.
Art pulls apart reality to the point of breaking, and freezes it there, so we see the building blocks of perception while still perceiving. We see the invisible, but it is more real to us than the visible.
Art can be the smallest thing, like a child's shirt and his moving face, so tiny in the image, but reimagining the whole thing, calling the whole thing into question.
Art can see ghosts. Art uses the full power of our eyes, which do far more than report reality. Our eyes make the world. The artist understands that power and exploits it, or lays it bare. The "real" dog is obliterated and we are left with our own dog, or some other creature of our core.
Art is the ridiculous made sublime, or the sublime made ridiculous. We can laugh and worship at once.
Art is an awkward puppet show. We see ourselves in the awkwardness, or we see someone we love or have loved. That awkwardness might represent what we've lost, perhaps because we didn't have the grace to hang on to it.
Art betrays our illusions, shows us darkness we don't want to see. Its phantasms betray our fearfulness.
Art is so subtle we have to squint, or better yet we have to relax our eyes and be quiet for a few moments, and then let it build within us. We slowly comprehend how many dragonflies there must be... in the picture... on a beach... in the universe...
Sometimes art talks to other art. Like a photographer redoing Cubism so perfectly that we wonder if the painting was ever necessary. This is especially rich if we understand the history of Art, and how movements like Cubism came from a need for painting to be different than photography. This example is quite magnificent, well beyond a famous example of "nude descending a staircase" done as a photograph.
Art flickers on the edge of nothingness. It is just one blot away from being meaningless. But that blot, that fragile moment, is to be cherished.
Message edited by author 2016-01-18 12:49:15. |
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01/18/2016 02:27:31 PM · #1681 |
Wow. Amazing comment. Means a lot!
Message edited by author 2016-01-18 16:54:35. |
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01/18/2016 03:10:41 PM · #1682 |
| Thank you, Don. It takes an artist to see art. |
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01/18/2016 03:34:06 PM · #1683 |
Thank you Mita for the red balloon.
And Don too, Thanks, You have outdone yourself this time with commentary as an essay on art appreciation. Articulate and sensitive without pretense or pomposity. Well done and thanks.
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01/18/2016 04:40:11 PM · #1684 |
Art of 2015
 for  Giles
Can't wait to jump in a build my future via footsteps in the sand! |
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01/18/2016 04:54:16 PM · #1685 |
It was a pleasure to read through your comments on all the images! Great hob!
Message edited by author 2016-01-18 16:54:29. |
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01/18/2016 04:55:23 PM · #1686 |
Originally posted by tvsometime:
Thank you Mita for the red balloon.
And Don too, Thanks, You have outdone yourself this time with commentary as an essay on art appreciation. Articulate and sensitive without pretense or pomposity. Well done and thanks. |
Well said. Thank you Don.
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01/18/2016 07:19:57 PM · #1687 |
| Thanks Don for the bling, and for seeing what I also saw... |
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01/18/2016 10:14:56 PM · #1688 |
Thanks Don!
Great art with great appreciation :) |
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01/18/2016 11:20:21 PM · #1689 |
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01/19/2016 12:58:55 AM · #1690 |
| thanks Don, John and Mita. thanks so much |
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01/19/2016 03:13:23 AM · #1691 |
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01/19/2016 04:53:23 AM · #1692 |
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01/19/2016 08:26:28 AM · #1693 |
| Thanks Don for those very vivid and poetic insights! |
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01/19/2016 12:34:51 PM · #1694 |
| Great reading about art, Don, and thanks for your appreciation. |
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01/19/2016 12:52:27 PM · #1695 |
My Art 2015 Picks
 
With the now infrequently given  going to mitalapo for:
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01/19/2016 01:47:19 PM · #1696 |
| Thank you, Paul, for your insight and kindness. |
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01/19/2016 03:24:59 PM · #1697 |
| Thanks Paul! :-) must work towards your scooter in the future! :-) |
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01/20/2016 10:16:01 AM · #1698 |
Mini Ribbons
  Tiberius
  tvsometime
a bit of a gallery
Message edited by author 2016-01-20 10:16:20. |
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01/20/2016 06:18:07 PM · #1699 |
| Thank you Don! posthumous blue rare is |
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01/20/2016 10:15:31 PM · #1700 |
Originally posted by Tiberius:
Thank you Don! posthumous blue rare is |
Red rare too. Thanks Don. |
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