TER General Board
I may not know a lot about art but...
...I know what I like:
Re: They said the same about Monet.
“Impression, Soleil Levant,” Monet’s landscape which gave its name to the Impressionist School, was panned by a critic of the day with, “…wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished.”
My criticism of that critic is that he's an idiot. “Impression, Soleil Levant,” Monet’s landscape which gave its name to the Impressionist School, was panned by a critic of the day with, “…wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished.”
I will grant you – a split-level fornicating dwelling is a vulgar display of exhibitionism without substance; but don’t let that be a blanket indictment of all that challenges our sensibilities.
South Park is fun entertainment in its place on the boob tube. Plagiarizing ideas from Cartman or any other 9 year old and elevating it to a museum piece is, usually, just a cheap trick. .
A Impressionist pic or a South Park pic? I picked Manet's Impression of Eric Cartman (1868):
Then an eccentric looking man said,
Speak to us of Art.
And he said:
It might as easily be said that man could live without Art as that man could live without water.
Look upon the innocent scribblings of little children.
Doubt not that each of us emerged from the womb an artist.
Art is freedom.
That which is called Art, yet is made subservient to commerce is not Art.
That which is called Art, yet is made subservient to a Nation or State is not Art.
That which is called Art, yet is hanging in the Museum of Modern Art is not Art. That crap my six year old son could do, the Master explained.
