Art
Added 2017-03-26 20:26:45 +0000 UTCI'm going to talk about Art. Modern Art. Brace yourselves.
First thing to know is that Modern Art is art from the 1860s to the 1940s/1970s. Current day art is Contemporary or Postmodern art. That's not important right now but it may win you a few points in a pub quiz down the road.
The painting above is Tableau I by my favorite artist, Piet Mondrian. I wasn't particularly bothered by art when I first saw this painting. I just saw what most of you are seeing right now. A bunch of squares. Nothing special.
Tableau I was painted as an example of what art in cities should be like. It's bright colours and stark lines were designed to fit into the modern cities of Paris and London. It was art for the modern age.
AND IT WAS PAINTED IN FUCKING 1921.
1921! The instant I heard that my brain had to do serious reorganizing. This painting just didn't fit in my worldview. My idea of the past is in black and white. Policemen with big hats, Ladies in large furry coats looking in shop windows, Motor cars being stopped to let sheep pass. This painting is almost a hundred years old. I still cannot process that. It's older than The Queen for fucks sake.
Hell this painting came out years before the first TV! Earlier than traffic lights! Earlier than sunglasses! Just a year earlier the first ever Radio Station started! It's out of it's time. This should be the sort of painting on the fucking Enterprise, not sitting in a black and white photo!
(Fun fact, Data has a Mondrian in his room on the Enterprise. This is the closest proof we have to Time Travel existing.)
This is the moment I 'got' art. Art isn't the setup, it's the punchline. You can't understand art if you just look at a piece by itself. Tableau I is just a bunch of lines and squares but it's also a new way of looking at the past.
Knowing this is all you need to start to appreciate art. I know it sounds super basic but looking beyond what was directly in front of me was the piece I was missing. This painting gave me that knowledge and with it I've seen some wondrous new things.
Anyway, this is all starting to get pretentious so I will dedicate the next sentence to restoring this post to normal pretention levels.
Willy willy poo bum titties bum fart.
- Dan
Comments
Phew natural balance restored I was worried for a moment there
Cameron White
2017-06-12 18:32:41 +0000 UTCJust by looking at this piece I can remember that *entire* episode of Hustle
2017-03-27 19:15:04 +0000 UTCI also like a lot of abstract art, idk why, but it's certainly not because of some deeper meaning or message. It looks good to my brain.
Sergei Pozniak
2017-03-27 19:10:53 +0000 UTCI think it looks cool and that's all I need. There's no meaning behind it, the guy just chose some matching colors and drew some geometric shapes. Looks cool, but that's it.
Sergei Pozniak
2017-03-27 19:09:50 +0000 UTCWhile I can appreciate a lot of modern and post-modern art, I will never understand how some people are willing to pay millions for some of them. But then again.... I can't understand why somebody would pay thousands for a bottle of wine. Or a few hundred grand for a car. ;)
Nicholas Robinson
2017-03-27 13:50:09 +0000 UTCI tend to disagree with you. you can't judge art baset purely on when it's been drawn. Personally, I don't believe in such things as "beyond it's time" the premise of that is just stupid. but to the people of that age, It was just a bunch of squares. same it is to us, and it would be the same to a caveman (if he knew what squares are) that doesn't mean that it's beyond time, that does mean, it has no message in it, no point to make, no anything. it's just fucking squares because perhaps he was sick of other paintings at that time, so he tried squares and people felt for that. And also, this artist has an collection of "bunch of squares" paintings. is the point of every one of them to learn about the past or what? now, I don't disagree with the assumption that tis is art. It may be. tha point of art is that no one knows because it's always "up to you" and that's just plain stupid, and so is art. but don't let people like me be in your way of enjoying it. enjoy or take from it whatever you like.
Dejvo
2017-03-27 06:48:52 +0000 UTCI freely admit I prefer the Romantics myself, but Piet holds a special place in my heart too.
The Ferret
2017-03-26 21:29:49 +0000 UTCCool. I, personally, prefer pictures of the english country, with a small house, and a river in view. It's why I have 3 in my bedroom, but this sort of thing is really cool.
Sandwich247
2017-03-26 20:56:46 +0000 UTCDouglas when did old women become the greatest demographic in art enthusiasts?
2017-03-26 20:51:58 +0000 UTCYes it is a bunch of rectangles but it is a bunch of rectangles that are expressive of a concept as simple as a bunch of rectangles. As Dan said, it was Mondrian's vision of what a modern city should be, any modern city. If it was any more elaborate it would cease to be a template, evocative of the basic principles cities should follow and the feelings they should instill, and become some fantasy city with no significance to the world. This is Mondrian allowing some freedom and saying "build some different cities out of this" not "build this one city many times".
2017-03-26 20:48:16 +0000 UTCThis post is art.
2017-03-26 20:45:25 +0000 UTCThis is actually extremely useful to me considering I have a test about this stuff next friday xD
Tijmen Bergman
2017-03-26 20:45:18 +0000 UTCDan, when did you become an old woman?
Douglas Hodgson
2017-03-26 20:42:28 +0000 UTCI'm conflicted on this one, on the one hands its a bunch of fucking rectangles on the other hand, at some point in history someone would have done this anyway, so its sort of like natural progression of art "before its time"
Simon Paffett
2017-03-26 20:34:34 +0000 UTCWilly willy poo tities willy bum fart - the only thing I will really take in from this post as a 14 year old
2017-03-26 20:31:13 +0000 UTCMore pretentious Dan please!!!
Jan-Philipp Voss
2017-03-26 20:30:19 +0000 UTCI never expected something insightful from Dan. I love being surprised
Alex Janmo
2017-03-26 20:29:19 +0000 UTC
