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Banksy canvas work is not the usual but it sure is amazing!! I love that apes in parliament painting is one of the greatest things I have seen.
 
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I think I like the ballerina on the high wire
 
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Picaso at Chicago Institute of Art, anyone going ?
 
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But seriously... I was just curious. I'm not a fan I just don't get it. I mean... I guess I get it, but I don't care for it.
 

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i have never been a huge fan of most of his works (esp the earlier stuff) but his influence on the art world, design, entertainment and thus cultural ideals and imaginations is massive. Just one of those artists that took the world around us all and gave us a new way to look at it and a new ways to bend our imaginations. His influence is all over the place not only in the visual arts world. There are other sociopolitical aspects to his work also but im not an art history major who has the energy to write a thesis here. So I get him and his work...i don't really love it but that's probably because of the saturation around it. At the time of his later works (cubism esp) there was really nothing else to compare it to so I suppose that's the key with Pablo. He is pretty much one of the grandfathers of Abstract art..something America took to levels and mastered thus stamping the country as a legit player in the art world..hasn't slowed down since. I think that is another reason Pablo is celebrated so much in North America and not just as a European painter celebrated mostly in Europe.
 
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I walked through the cultural center the other day and they had a new exhib up which was just someone who took a bunch of white poles and sheets and such, and put floresent paint all over them and blew up a big pillow looking thing and threw paint all over it. It looked more like a mess than art. It was called popfizzpop or something like that... I don't know I was just annoyed by it. Kind of reminded me of your stuff... haha I keeed I keeed... it just seemed lazy to me actually.
 

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lol I actually like them (not so much the ramp one). I like the surrealism and abstract in them. Its hard to explain why i enjoy abstract and it's not just about "getting it" because I don't really ever "get it" when it comes to other peoples abstract work. I also like how the work changes form and identity while it works with my own imagination (pretty simple and cliche like looking at cloud forms..guess I like that innocents and participation).. And I guess it it just hits me physically in ways where I want to jump on it and be smothered by it. And they come a live to me. Im not going to try and dissect it as anything more than all this. Im sure the artist might have had something in mind other than how I personally react to it but meh..Im not one who ever gave a shit about that. Art doesn't have to convey any substancial political, cultural social message by the artist or in the viewer. it can just be playful which is what I get out of that work. I like that in a lot of art work.



I can see how others wouldn't care for it or question it. Im a like what you wanna like type person so im not going to defend art all the time. It doesn't need me to anyways. To be honest sometimes I just like to look at shit. Art majors and some other artists hate when I say that but it's true!! That's pretty much why I don't hang out with other artists. They shovel BS really high sometimes.
 
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lol I actually like them (not so much the ramp one). I like the surrealism and abstract in them. Its hard to explain why i enjoy abstract and it's not just about "getting it" because I don't really ever "get it" when it comes to other peoples abstract work. I also like how the work changes form and identity while it works with my own imagination (pretty simple and cliche like looking at cloud forms..guess I like that innocents and participation).. And I guess it it just hits me physically in ways where I want to jump on it and be smothered by it. And they come a live to me. Im not going to try and dissect it as anything more than all this. Im sure the artist might have had something in mind other than how I personally react to it but meh..Im not one who ever gave a shit about that. Art doesn't have to convey any substancial political, cultural social message by the artist or in the viewer. it can just be playful which is what I get out of that work. I like that in a lot of art work.



I can see how others wouldn't care for it or question it. Im a like what you wanna like type person so im not going to defend art all the time. It doesn't need me to anyways. To be honest sometimes I just like to look at shit. Art majors and some other artists hate when I say that but it's true!! That's pretty much why I don't hang out with other artists. They shovel BS really high sometimes.
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I'm sure it's fine for you and others like you, and I'm not even going to try calling it not art... but walking through the cultural center it was more in the way and akin to garbage than it was art that I wanted to stop and look at. Those pictures dont' show the rest of the exhibit... Those are the only real pieces I saw that I gave a second glance at becuase they looked like they weren't created as an afterhthought. The actual pictures I thought weren't too bad. It was the other stuff... I cant' find a good picture of any of it. Essentially it was just random junk in the same colors...





and Jako... what the ****.
 

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Oh man. This is just an amazing moment. Turn off the sound if you're going to watch. It's better and more true to the artist's work in this piece.



http://youtu.be/OS0Tg0IjCp4





I still have not watched this whole documentary, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, but this is seriously killer.
 
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Mulevery said:
Oh man. This is just an amazing moment. Turn off the sound if you're going to watch. It's better and more true to the artist's work in this piece.



[media]http://youtu.be/OS0Tg0IjCp4[/media]





I still have not watched this whole documentary, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, but this is seriously killer.
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What in the **** is THIS, Mulenisimov?!?!
 

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Ok, I have no idea what I just watched since I had the sound off.
 
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