| User | DavidHirt | | Topic | Art Movements | | Message | We always look at visual art and talk about artistic movement: Impressionists, cubists, surrealists, post modern, modern, pop, dada... what have you. Each of them were based on a style, and to some extent world view and theory. What’s your favorite art movement and why? |
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| User | DavidHirt | 2006-05-22 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I think there might be some Chegall in my poetry too. |
| User | DavidHirt | 2006-05-22 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | What can I say... as much as the Imagists annoyed me at times, they’ve affected me a good deal and if thought and image aren’t weded in my mind, well... nothing happens. And the images I se right now are urban.
<sigh>
I need a desert.
Some Mesa marzipan or chocolate covered Cactus. |
| User | Fantastic Freya | 2006-05-21 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I can see you as cubist... although slightly less politically motivated. More of an urban romantic, really. |
| User | DavidHirt | 2006-05-21 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | We can’t always see what others see in our work. We don’t always want to see it. I was called cubist once. |
| User | ghostknight | 2006-05-20 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | interesting... i know i was ripping my hair out when i first joined, since every person who was gracious enough to comment would leave the word ’abstract’ sprinkled around all over their comment. i know they didn’t mean it, and i’m sure that in such a large number there had to be truth to it... no, i’d have to say i don’t want to make the comparison... unless you can call it surreal, that’s okey-dokey. use the mind’s eye, seems like a level above just being abstract. |
| User | DavidHirt | 2006-05-18 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | so... is there an art movement you would consider your poetry to be like? Is your writing impressionistic? Post Modern? What? |
| User | joeyalphabet | 2006-05-12 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Dali’s one of my favorites too. I even saw a Porky Pib cartoon from the ’40s where the backgrounds were all surreal Dali-like ones. |
| User | realpoet | 2006-05-12 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message |
surrealism for me. Seems like no one wants to believe as another so why not paint life as a mixed up menagerie. Sort of making a mirror out of paintwherein you can see as you want to see. |
| User | Fantastic Freya | 2006-05-11 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I don’t think anyone will or can disagree with that, Joey -- except for the people who say, "it’s not art because I don’t like it". |
| User | joeyalphabet | 2006-05-11 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Well, Freya, art is a subjective experience. Even though I loathe opera, I can still appreciate the talent involved. |
| User | darkness | 2006-05-10 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | My least favorate art movement would be love metal
DIE love metel Die
okay yeah
ummm...
the best art movement is any art that makes me think
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| User | Fantastic Freya | 2006-05-10 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I tend to think that the same movements which affect me in the visual media also influence the way I write. I believe this is probably because we like certain things which coincide with a particular way we look at the world. For example, I don’t like Dali because his pictures are pretty, but because of the way his art makes me think. Van Gogh and co, on the other hand, do absolutely nothing for me -- probably because nothing in my head coincides with what was in theirs.
I don’t think you can separate visual arts, writing and music. They are all expressions of, and communications to, particular aspects of human existence. |
| User | DavidHirt | 2006-05-10 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I don’t know if I agree with that or not Joey, I suppose in one sense, if it isn’t art to you, then you can’t expect anybody else to see it as art.
However, I think I’ll tip my hand now. If there are art movements in the visual and musical arts, what are the movements in the written arts? Is there a movement you’d classify what you write as? What art movements do you think have affected the way you write? |
| User | joeyalphabet | 2006-05-10 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | One can’t produce art for anyone but oneself. |
| User | DavidHirt | 2006-05-09 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Really Frey? I need to stop using that phrase... it’s always fallen so trippingly from my tongue :) |
| User | mae | 2006-05-09 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | |
| User | Fantastic Freya | 2006-05-09 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | You might say to someone "I like your sweater" but I’ll bet you rarely say "that K-Mart mass produced synthetic sweater is a work of art". |
| User | Fantastic Freya | 2006-05-09 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Yes Mae, again you did misunderstand and choose the wrong part of a statement to focus on. I was referring in turn to something posted by someone else. The key part of my statement was this: "Art need not be aesthetically pleasing, and all that is aesthetically pleasing need not be art." |
| User | joeyalphabet | 2006-05-09 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I think art can certainly be decoration but not the opposite (at least not often) |
| User | mae | 2006-05-09 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | From Freya on 5-06: ’ So it’s not art because its intention is not artistic, but decorative.’
Did I misunderstand your meaning, Freya? mae |
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