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Its Turner Prize time

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    Its Turner Prize time

    For the Haiters :

    Turner prize 2014 shortlist unveiled | Art and design | theguardian.com

    For the pictures :

    Turner Prize nominations announced (and no traditional artists are shortlisted) | Mail Online

    as usual not a decent portrait or conventional art amongst them.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    Turner wasn't a conventional artist in his time.

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      #3
      Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
      Turner wasn't a conventional artist in his time.
      Not sure he would have been impressed by unmade beds.

      J. M. W. Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      He seems to have experimented with style & paint not poo.
      Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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        #4
        Not my cup of tea I'm afraid.

        This is though.

        The clever twist is that technically it's a mug.

        And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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          #5
          Arguably purely figurative art is a bit pointless since they invented cameras but I would hope for summit a bit more creativity than the junk we get so often.


          Any artists on here? We could have a CUK art contest.
          bloggoth

          If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
          John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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            #6
            Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
            Arguably purely figurative art is a bit pointless since they invented cameras but I would hope for summit a bit more creativity than the junk we get so often.


            Any artists on here? We could have a CUK art contest.
            We did that.

            http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...dyw-prize.html

            Maybe time for round 2?

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              #7
              He seems to have experimented with style & paint not poo
              Many years ago I went to a Gilbert and George exhibition in Edinburgh. Was most impressed by their "Spunk on tulip." creations. Not. Although they also do some good stuff if you don't mind a couple of weird old blokes in every picture.
              bloggoth

              If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
              John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                #8
                Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
                Arguably purely figurative art is a bit pointless since they invented cameras but I would hope for summit a bit more creativity than the junk we get so often.
                Yes, so would I, although you can view some of it as experimental; a sort of research into aesthetics and what can and can't be expressed with visual representations. The stuff in the article is beyond me too, but I do like a lot of modern paintings and some sculpture and I guess art needs constant experimentation to progress. A bit like music; I find so-called modern classical music and especially twelve tone music very hard on the ear and I don't really enjoy it when the Dutch Radio 4 has its loony hour (my name for it) on some evenings as I drive home; happily I can then switch over to the CD player and enjoy Bach. Or the Mavericks or something else, depending on my mood, but maybe some musicians use the strange music they´ve heard as inspiration for something more accessible.
                And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                  #9
                  well I just righted a wrong and liked a Mich post that made me laugh last time. Hint - encapsulate.
                  Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                    #10
                    Decomposition is the postscript to the death of a human body; disintegration is the preface to the death of a human mind. Disintegration is the keynote and goal of modern art—the disintegration of man’s conceptual faculty, and the retrogression of an adult mind to the state of a mewling infant.

                    To reduce man’s consciousness to the level of sensations, with no capacity to integrate them, is the intention behind the reducing of language to grunts, of literature to “moods,” of painting to smears, of sculpture to slabs, of music to noise.

                    But there is a philosophically and psychopathologically instructive element in the spectacle of that gutter...



                    ... It is highly doubtful that the practitioners and admirers of modern art have the intellectual capacity to understand its philosophical meaning; all they need to do is indulge the worst of their subconscious premises. But their leaders do understand the issue consciously: the father of modern art is Immanuel Kant (see his Critique of Judgment).

                    I do not know which is worse: to practice modern art as a colossal fraud or to do it sincerely.

                    I'm with Ayn Rand, as far as the modern 'art' goes.

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