I'd give up internet until my birthday if I could get a front row seat to see someone with a pair of machetes slashing up that wall and every bit of splatter-type "art" being sold.
art is subjective though, what you may find visually appealing and determine as 'art' may not be the same to others.
people who have a high knowledge of art and the techniques used often appreciate those pieces that others say 'pffft I could do that' because they know how much work actually went into it
Art is often not about the physical aspects of it so much as the conceptual. If an artist has something to say they're doing to say it however they need to, regardless if it is something a destructive six year old could do. Or in some cases a constructive six year old (as in goldsworthy's art). Often in fact artists don't even make their own art, look at orlan for instance or christo.
tylerchu, a 'destructive 6 year old' often could not make these pieces though. yes they could splash some acrylic paint around on a canvas but that's not what's happened in these pieces that are displayed in art galleries.
like i said, you need to have a knowledge of art and the techniques to be able to appreciate it. if you don't know how much work went into it, then you're going to make naive comments like you did
I hate cubist art because it looks stupid, but I can appreciate the skill and vision it takes to "see" things from different perspectives while staying in the same place. I don't understand
http://legomenon.com/images/salvador-dali-persistence-of-memory-clocks-meaning.jpg
this but appreciate the surrealism for the same reason. Now I dare you to tell me it takes more skill than a four year old to create that splatter painting in the OP. The demented amoeba thing (above the splatter) may or may not take skill, I think a six year old could still accidentally create that. I know I've done many things very similar to it with my horrible drawing skills. And then the first thing. The blue canvas with monochrome detailings. What skill goes into that? If you know one side of a paintbrush from another, you can create it. You take a white canvas and blue paint, then on some random parts apply slightly less paint so the whiteness of the canvas can peek through the blue.
So you seem to imply agreement with me in your first paragraph that a six year old could create such a "masterpiece". But you also say that's not what happened to get these specific pieces recognition and placement in an art gallery. So tell me. What do the artists do? Blindfold themselves and have squirt guns with various paints and shoot in the general direction of the canvas? What skill and/or vision is shown in the pieces of art shown?
When someone is standing in front of something that some call art, and he doesn't get it and denies its art at all, that is actually a total win for the artist and for art itself. Because actually something that everyone recognizes and acknowledges as art, is likely to be art and craft rather. Art wants to provoke and confuse and raise limits and overcome conventions. Art and craft wants to please, and thats fine, but its not really art.
Lining up paint cans and shooting them onto a canvas like FPSRussia did isn't skill or art. It's called wasting time and money and having fun doing so.
people who have a high knowledge of art and the techniques used often appreciate those pieces that others say 'pffft I could do that' because they know how much work actually went into it
like i said, you need to have a knowledge of art and the techniques to be able to appreciate it. if you don't know how much work went into it, then you're going to make naive comments like you did
http://legomenon.com/images/salvador-dali-persistence-of-memory-clocks-meaning.jpg
this but appreciate the surrealism for the same reason. Now I dare you to tell me it takes more skill than a four year old to create that splatter painting in the OP. The demented amoeba thing (above the splatter) may or may not take skill, I think a six year old could still accidentally create that. I know I've done many things very similar to it with my horrible drawing skills. And then the first thing. The blue canvas with monochrome detailings. What skill goes into that? If you know one side of a paintbrush from another, you can create it. You take a white canvas and blue paint, then on some random parts apply slightly less paint so the whiteness of the canvas can peek through the blue.