tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post666470548476242045..comments2024-03-13T10:32:22.656+00:00Comments on thanetonline: Sunday ramble about art and stuffMichael Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-72230602600788658852012-10-29T15:51:18.501+00:002012-10-29T15:51:18.501+00:00I believe that art should make you want to look at...I believe that art should make you want to look at it, think and feel something. If it fails to do this for me then I pass it by. <br /><br />Having said that. I still do not understand Keats's,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" since the days when I first read it at school. But it still makes me stop and think; it makes me feel and I cannot pass it buy. Therefore to me it is art. <br /><br />In addition I believe that we humans have an intrinsic need for art. Perhaps this is because it helps us to understand all the strange, bad and good things that assault us in this world. Art is necessary if we are to thrive.John Holyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284672912775316883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-46310423812897940622012-10-29T15:28:26.055+00:002012-10-29T15:28:26.055+00:00The extent to which an approach to understanding A...The extent to which an approach to understanding Art my be made is to try and cultivate ones aesthetic sensibilities and Art education, both historic and practical. It may well be that some works remain enigmatic mysteries, but we should not have to pretend our understanding. Most works are decipherable if we put in the effort, that presupposes that the works are worthy of that effort in the first place. Maybe that is the question we should be posing in the first place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-20741588595158063402012-10-28T20:13:28.564+00:002012-10-28T20:13:28.564+00:00Don I don’t think the point of art is to understan...Don I don’t think the point of art is to understand it, I do think having a reasonable chance of recognising which famous artwork is by which famous artist, at least at the level of being able to differentiate between Beethoven and The Beatles, has its points.<br /><br />The Turner Contemporary is a bit of a tricky one because it is mostly funded out of the public purse and a fair old chunk of this, about a million pounds a year, out of our council tax.<br /><br />Personally art interests me particularly visual art and out of this especially paintings, I tend to respond to painted visual art with painted visual art, obviously I don’t normally publish the what I paint in my sketchbook on any one day, as presumably it would bore everyone to death, but I have today, but it isn’t intended as a condemnation, far from it. <br />Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575321478441277410.post-56550320012088862942012-10-28T19:42:09.511+00:002012-10-28T19:42:09.511+00:00I wish I understood art but then I would say the s...I wish I understood art but then I would say the same about life and death and while we are at it my MS. People will never understand, it is not like geometry or algebra there is no ANSWER and the Understanding of ART is not tangable concept. But condemning art out of hand because it is <i> ART </i> is not going to achieve anything. I dont understand quantum physics but I dont condemmn it. Art and the Turner is an easy target one I feell we should be embracing Don Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17099505939055955603noreply@blogger.com