Do you like art?

I mean any kind or art as long as it is visual. If you do what kind of art do you like? I personally like artists like Salvador Dali, Edvard Munch, Francisco de goya, Gerald scarfe, Ralph Steadman, and Peter Rubens. This is some art by those guys I like the most.

Salvador Dali

Edvard munch

Francisco de goya

Gerald scarfe

Peter Rubens

Ralph Steadman

I also quite like album art. I made a collage of album art recently. These are some I like a lot though I have no idea who designed them.

I appreciate it. I'm not going to go out of my way to view it, though.

Film-Guy

I had no idea Pyramid Head did album covers!

ehh, coming into this topic was like art history class all over again "shudders", ehh, art is nice to look and is alright but i don't understand how some guy can crap in a can and call it art and sell it for a million bucks "go look it up, a famous artist actually did this" so its nice to have around but doesn't interest me

Yes i love art, i like creating it more then anything else though..and i don't have a favorite artist at present..

I like it, just never able to understand it

I prefer Concept Art. Thus making me a Concept Artist :D

I mean any kind or art as long as it is visual. If you do what kind of art do you like? I personally like artists like Salvador Dali, Edvard Munch, Francisco de goya, Gerald scarfe, Ralph Steadman, and Peter Rubens. This is some art by those guys I like the most.

Salvador Dali

Edvard munch

Gerald scarfe

Film-Guy

I like this one.

I do.

I like looking at them, not necessarily analyzing them.

if it counts. i love covers for video games and cds ext.video game covers suck now but some cd covers are just so awsome you just wanna get a poster of it and hang it up in your room like i realy admire rise againsts "suffer and the witness" and "let if enfold you"cover

I think 3D street art like this is interesting.

I like visual art, and I keep meaning to practice getting better at drawing.

I don't like the idea of a few obscure shapes and colours being thrown together and being analyzed as "deep" though... (Those types can still be asthetically pleasing to look at though :))

On a side note, between the bland work with no room for creativity and the useless teachers, I couldn't stand art c|ass when I tried to take it at the start of high school :(

Music art

I think 3D street art like this is interesting.

Jackboot343

Alright, that does looks pretty sweet! :D

I buy it if I can afford it. This was the last one I bought.

I buy it if I can afford it. This was the last one I bought.

I buy it if I can afford it. This was the last one I bought.

ehhwhatever

Diglett?

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I buy it if I can afford it. This was the last one I bought.

harashawn

I stopped at this gallery and grabbed it and a woman said she had painted it.Thats about it.

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I buy it if I can afford it. This was the last one I bought.

I stopped at this gallery and grabbed it and a woman said she had painted it.Thats about it.

Film-Guy

What album is this?

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freek666

What album is this?

It's called Hurtbreak Wonderland by World's end girlfriend. If you like Post Rock you would like them. Here is a song from the album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS4sINdEQac

It's called Hurtbreak Wonderland by World's end girlfriend. If you like Post Rock you would like them. Here is a song from the album.

Film-Guy

Yeah I really enjoy art. Some of my favorites being Salvador Dali, M.C Escher, Norman Rockwell, among some others. I tend to stop and appreciate artworks when they're showcased. More than happy to go to art shows if my friends are up for it.

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It's called Hurtbreak Wonderland by World's end girlfriend. If you like Post Rock you would like them. Here is a song from the album.

harashawn

I do indeed. Try this band Eluvium. Their most recent album Similes is their only one with vocals though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8UyMsDvy-0

Try the band Cocteau twins. They are one of my favorites. Sigur Ros are quite good too.

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Film-Guy

What album is this?

It's called Hurtbreak Wonderland by World's end girlfriend. If you like Post Rock you would like them. Here is a song from the album.

Ironically I made a Post-Rock thread yesterday :P

nicenice

I find it hard to believe that there's ANYONE who doesn't like art, since "art" encompasses so many things. Music, movies, paintings. Hell, even COOKING can be considered an art.

That being said, yes I like the visual arts. I'm more inclined towards photography and movies, rather than paintings and drawing and sculpture, but I absolutely LOVE visual art.

I find it hard to believe that there's ANYONE who doesn't like art, since "art" encompasses so many things. Music, movies, paintings. Hell, even COOKING can be considered an art.

That being said, yes I like the visual arts. I'm more inclined towards photography and movies, rather than paintings and drawing and sculpture, but I absolutely LOVE visual art.

MrGeezer

I enjoy it, as long as it isn't that "if I randomly put stuff together that doesn't make sense and say it's symbolic of my emotions, it's art!" stuff I've been seeing lately.

Luis Royo and John Avon are a couple of my favorites.

We're talking about paintings and whatnot, right?

ehh, coming into this topic was like art history class all over again "shudders", ehh, art is nice to look and is alright but i don't understand how some guy can crap in a can and call it art and sell it for a million bucks "go look it up, a famous artist actually did this" so its nice to have around but doesn't interest me

Chris_Williams

And...firstly you didn't even critique the "poop in a can artist", so you haven't presented a valid reason why poop in a can sucks or isn't art.

But I'll let that slide. For the sake of argument, let's suppose that poop in a can isn't art. Even in that case, why even bring it up? What does a SINGLE artist pooping in a can have to do with ART? I hope you realize that MOST artists aren't simply pooping in cans and calling it art. I hope you realize that MOST museums aren't full of hundreds of buckets filled with feces.

What the hell does poop in a can have to do with anything? If you're simply saying that some artists make BAD art, then so what? What does that have to do with art in general? Some cooks make bad food, some architects design bad buildings, some investors make bad investments, some singers can't ****ing sing...I can go on all day. In just about ANY field you pick, you're gonna find someone there who sucks.

I find it hard to believe that there's ANYONE who doesn't like art, since "art" encompasses so many things. Music, movies, paintings. Hell, even COOKING can be considered an art.

That being said, yes I like the visual arts. I'm more inclined towards photography and movies, rather than paintings and drawing and sculpture, but I absolutely LOVE visual art.

MrGeezer

I'm not sure if you would know this, but who are some good photographers? I am trying to do some research into that subject. I've been using my camera more often and looking through my old National geographics to get some good pictures. Of course I could just look up best photographers, but I'm just interested in who are some you are into.

Of course I like art. Art being my major and all, you gotta expect that I have an appreciation anything within this medium.

I fancy modern, abstract art.

A bunch of pretentious garbage.

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ehh, coming into this topic was like art history class all over again "shudders", ehh, art is nice to look and is alright but i don't understand how some guy can crap in a can and call it art and sell it for a million bucks "go look it up, a famous artist actually did this" so its nice to have around but doesn't interest me

MrGeezer

And...firstly you didn't even critique the "poop in a can artist", so you haven't presented a valid reason why poop in a can sucks or isn't art.

But I'll let that slide. For the sake of argument, let's suppose that poop in a can isn't art. Even in that case, why even bring it up? What does a SINGLE artist pooping in a can have to do with ART? I hope you realize that MOST artists aren't simply pooping in cans and calling it art. I hope you realize that MOST museums aren't full of hundreds of buckets filled with feces.

What the hell does poop in a can have to do with anything? If you're simply saying that some artists make BAD art, then so what? What does that have to do with art in general? Some cooks make bad food, some architects design bad buildings, some investors make bad investments, some singers can't ****ing sing...I can go on all day. In just about ANY field you pick, you're gonna find someone there who sucks.

I like visual art, and I keep meaning to practice getting better at drawing.

I don't like the idea of a few obscure shapes and colours being thrown together and being analyzed as "deep" though... (Those types can still be asthetically pleasing to look at though :))

On a side note, between the bland work with no room for creativity and the useless teachers, I couldn't stand art c|ass when I tried to take it at the start of high school :(

IcyToasters

If you're interested in art, don't let that deter you. Grade school art ****s are usually a joke. Things tend to get a LOT better once you hit the college level. And even if you never decide to take another art ****ever again, you can get a LOT better simply by studying for yourself.

First and foremost is tons of research. Learning about art, looking at LOTS of art, thinking about it and analyzing it. You don't need a ****oom setting to do that. If you are interested in art, then go to art museums, and then see what art is out there. Identify what you think is good and what you think is bad, then dig deeper. See what people are saying about others' works of art. Start making your own art, and then showing it to people. Granted, art ****s make this a lot easier, since there are mandatory critiques and stuff, but you don't need art ****s to get people to critique your art. The internet is a MARVELOUS tool for helping you to become a better artist. Never has it been easier to see what kind of art people are making. Never has it been easier for you to let your art get seen by THOUSANDS of critics. Find an art forum which seems to have a fair number of people who know their ****. Post some of your art for critique, and really LOOK at what the critics are saying.

Art ****s are usually a joke. Studying art in college is a tad bit better, but that doesn't matter. Even if you consider art majors to be a joke, that still should not stand in your way of becoming better at art. If you're interested at all, you can learn a LOT and get a LOT better simply through practice and independent study. And the internet makes it easier to do this than ever before.

As long as it isn't abstract art or any weirdo stuff.

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I find it hard to believe that there's ANYONE who doesn't like art, since "art" encompasses so many things. Music, movies, paintings. Hell, even COOKING can be considered an art.

That being said, yes I like the visual arts. I'm more inclined towards photography and movies, rather than paintings and drawing and sculpture, but I absolutely LOVE visual art.

Film-Guy

I'm not sure if you would know this, but who are some good photographers? I am trying to do some research into that subject. I've been using my camera more often and looking through my old National geographics to get some good pictures. Of course I could just look up best photographers, but I'm just interested in who are some you are into.

Oh jeeze...I don't even have a list of favourites.

Just gonna throw out some names here, not saying that they are my favourite photographers or anything. But they're good as **** and worth looking into.

Ansel Adams is probably the standard cliched name that gets thrown around, and he deserves it (even if he's not the best). His photographs are absolutely STUNNING both from an artistic and technical standpoint. And he's one of the most obvious choices for great photography, since he so well embraced both the artistic and scientific aspects. Most of his pictures are very pleasing from the start because he was thinking as an artist and had an eye for composition, but he gets remembered as one of the greats because he was also a NERD. He didn't stop at using the available methods to express his art, he helped to develop the "zone system". He did meticulous study of metering and responses of film to differing development. He was not only a visual artist with a keen eye for striking imagery, he was also a tech geek who spent a hell of a lot of time doing tech and lab work in order to develop a better way to make his art more effective.

HUGE thing there. I just want to point out that artists and scientists are seen as being different, opposing kinds of people. But goddamn Leonardo Da Vinci dealt with both arts and sciences as well. The two are NOT mutually exclusive, and being able to branch out can absolutely result in better art.

I also like James Nachtwey (even though he's primarily a photojournalist rather than a pure art photographer). He does stuff like go to areas of conflict and photograph the struggles going on. Even though that's more of a "documentary" thing rather than an "art" thing, I have absolutely no problem with calling the guy a great artist. His pictures are simply stunning, full of emotion, and unforgettable.

In the same category, I'd include Alfred Eisenstaedt (I actually have an Eisenstaedt print...probably paid too much for it, but I sure as hell don't want to get rid of it since it is a goddamn Eisenstaedt). Spent most of his career working for life magazine, and his **** is AMAZING. Produced some absolutely iconic photographs. A master of his craft, and a true artist, even if he wasn't primarily an "art photographer".

Also look up some Dorothea Lange.

I'm also a fan of the Westons (Edward is the famous one, but his son Brett also did some EXCELLENT work).

And I can't ignore Robert Mapplethorpe, even though his work is totally gay And I'm not using the word in a derogatory sense, I mean that it was REALLY totally gay It's still some EXCELLENT freaking stuff.

Anyway, I'm not saying that those folk are my favorites. I don't really have any favourites, I was just throwing out some names.

Thanks for the recommendations MrGeezer. I will check them out. I saw a documentary on war photographers who go into the most dangerous parts of the world to take pictures of what is going on. That is one kind of photography I have tons of respect for. Those guys have a tough job. One photographer I like is Diane Arbus. Her pictures interest me because I like how she takes pictures of people who a lot would consider ugly, or freakish. They are not conventional in their beauty, but I find them interesting because they are not beauty models.

i think hes more pissed at the fact that people can produce **** pun not intended and get alot of money out of it...fl4tlined

What, is he jealous or something?

Is this like the case of people crying about how Justin Bieber is rich even though he's succesful?

I don't consider that to even be worth talking about. Yeah...for every great chef, you're gonna have a McDonalds or a Checkers. For every "Citizen Kane", you're going to have a "Meet the Spartans". For every Beethoven, your're going to have a Vanilla Ice.

But...what does that have to do with anything?