As seen on Ponce de Leon Place…
April 23, 2015 Eye on the Street (1)
April 16, 2015 danceDanceDANCE Event Along East Howard Avenue Will Promote “EcoArts District” Concept (2)
April 19, 2015 City Commission To Decide on Drive-Thru Juice Bar After Planning Commission Recommends Denial (21)
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Absolutely. The relevant question is, “Is this good?”
yeppers. scott gets the gold star.
Eh, I’m glad that I finally stopped worrying about whether art is considered “good” or “bad.” It’s liberating when folks decide not to let the establishment dictate how they should interact with and value objects, painting, etc.
Finally stopped? Why would anyone ever worry to begin with? The job of the artist is to create. The job of the audience is to reflect, consider, judge and/or react. Neither requires consideration of what anyone else thinks. It’s personal and subjective.
“Why would anyone ever worry to begin with?” — Can’t speak for Cyn, but my own upbringing was severely impoverished with respect to exposure to and appreciation of visual arts. (In stark contrast to the extremely high value my parents placed on music and letters, even though their taste in those realms was rather provincial.) In 12 years of public education, I only had art class in two grades (non-consecutive) and then it was only once a week. My first visit to an art museum was sophomore year of college. Discovered I love art, but it took me many years to develop confidence in my own instincts and responses. In the interim, I was always trying desperately to decode Good Art/Bad Art.
Scott, meant to ask you this yesterday:
What if the person who put it there didn’t believe it was art. Is it still art?
I’d say yes, as intent is secondary. Even if it’s just ornament to the person who put it there, putting it there was an expressive act.
A comparison might be certain cars from, say, the 50s. They were produced as commodities but to certain folks they’re considered works of art.
“Even if it’s just ornament to the person who put it there, putting it there was an expressive act.”
An expressive act is intention, and intention is the movement of art–you contradicted yourself.
If the person who put it there didn’t consider it art than it is vandalism, no?
Intention cannot be separated from the production of art–the cars from 50s were designed as commodities–but not by artists per se, considering a 1959 Cadillac as art is not the same as Segal plastering human casts.
The next thing they’ll try doing is putting crucifixes in urine. Oh the horror.
My kid could do that.
Is there a definition of Art? Should there be a definition?
I like it better than Pete the Cat. But that’s just me.
ha!
+1
+ a bazillion.
Well, I like Pete the Cat better than you.
On Ponce de Leon Place, definitely
Oh yeah, there’s something very Ponce Placey about this.
“I could have done that.”
“But you didn’t.”
Yes I did. I do it every week, and then I recycle it.
No, this is Art:
Oh well – here’s the link:
http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/255445/donovan.jpg
Maybe not to everyone’s liking, but sure it’s art. Why not? Who is it hurting? I live around there and actually kind of like those because they make great reflectors in the dark.
One beholder’s eyeful:
Is it more interesting and thought-provoking than anything Thomas Kinkade every painted? Yes, by a country mile.
Would I purchase it to ornament my own premises? Not in this lifetime.
If you have to ask…
We need one arbiter to decide all questions regarding inclusion of stuff under the definition of “Art.”
Next election day, vote Bryan Alexander for Art King.
For all things related to my Art Monarchy, hie thyself to my virtual realm at www DOT super duper art arbiter bryan DOT biz.
Whether it’s art or not, it looks like it’s tacked to a utility pole.
Doesn’t that make it illegal?
I’m overwhelmed with emotion by this piece. I feel his pain in exploring the deep undertones of racism in American society expressed through his color choice. But despite my connection with him, I cannot ignore the blatant display of misogyny. The can represents the placenta that nurtured him to life, but yet he follows that with a deliberate cast of the eyes angrily looking up at his mother, and therefore every woman, for her decision post-delivery. Snip snip.
Kinda like Thomas Kinkade.
Exactly. But I was thinking more along the lines of Bob Ross and his happy little trees. They were secretly disguising some very dark messages. Still, no one could rock a fro like Bob Ross!
I remember stumbling across that on Saturday mornings in search of the Laff-a-lympic and feeling very strange inside
A colored and crushed aluminum can is a common way workers for the power company mark utility poles after they have done maintenance on the lines above and don’t have an official marker to nail to the pole. Look at most any utility pole in the area and you’ll probably see a crushed aluminum can on it. Somebody decided to draw on this one…that makes it art.
+1
My questions: Was the can spraypainted before or after it was nailed to the utility pole? Did the same person who spraypainted the can also write “Is this art?”
If a craftsy passerby saw a can nailed to the pole and decided to spraypaint and decorate it (but how without getting paint on the pole?), then it’s resourceful art. If someone smashed a can, spraypainted it, wrote “Is this art?” on it, and nailed it onto the pole, then it’s smartalecky art. And if the person who did that was a utility worker marking the pole, then we know what happens to philosophy or art history PhDs in this economy.
Not art. Just a smashed can nailed to a telephone pole. Definitely not art.
I would MUCH rather have this than the aforementioned Thomas Kinkade painting. The real question is: Is that Thomas Kinkade painting art?
If Warhol’s work was Art then, unfortunately, so was Kinkade’s.
Andy walking, Andy tired
Andy take a little snooze
Tie him up when he’s fast asleep
Send him on a pleasant cruise
When he wakes up on the sea
Be sure to think of me and you
He’ll think about paint
And he’ll think about glue
What a jolly boring thing to do
No, I think that’s Sal. Art left town a few years ago.
That tree branch looks liek it’s abotut to fall onto that car. It’s going to make some art out of the rear windshield.
Would it make a difference to you if the artist was local? The artist is. Probably read this thread. Knowing the artist, I know this probably is a laughable thread. To me, it just makes me shake my head. Ah, “liberal” Decatur.
A discussion about the artist’s art makes them laugh? Like “Stupid mortals!! Hahaha!” type stuff?
I would think any street artist would be happy to see a healthy discussion about their work in a public forum. Nothing is worse for an artist than to be ignored.
As for “liberal” Decatur, let me be the first to again assert that it’s not as “liberal” or of one-mind as all the talk suggests it is. Nor should it aim to be. A thriving city is just as multidimensional as a good artist or his/her art.
Embrace the beauty that is diversity. Not just in art, but in opinion as well.
Heady stuff. You wouldn’t find this discussion in many other community blogs.
Likety-like-like.
If it was made in china yes, if not then no, just know.
ya’ll need to get over it.. that was done in 2003 just as a hey this would be kinda funny…..
Ha! Get over what? Discussions about art?
Ok, I guess we’re onto discussions about Jersey Shore then?
I guess its just more funny than anything since they’ve been up for close to 7 years. Im glad you enjoy them.
Funny is good. I like the cans on a pole, and I like the conversation.
However, my inner Debbie Downer has to point out that cans on a pole are probably dangerous to the technicians who have to climb those poles with spikes. If that job still exists.