Need some art?

[J.J.]

You can download images from the MET's collection!

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...

I think I'm going to a mess of pictures before I'm done...

[Scout]

Cool! Have you ever wondered why some things are considered art?

[Scout]

[Ian]

Scout wrote: "Cool! Have you ever wondered why some things are considered art?

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Yep. Once, in the Tate Gallery (London) I saw a "painting" that was all beige-brown, almost uniform. It was called "Sandstorm".

[Ian]

Ian wrote: "Scout wrote: "Cool! Have you ever wondered why some things are considered art?

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Yep. Once, in the Tate Gallery (London) I saw a "painting" that was all beige-brown, almost uniform. It was called..."

I think it was at the Tate, as a young boy many years ago, I saw a whole series of canvases that were all plain white. Can't remember what they were called, but it seemed to me back then that a lot of "art" was pure bunk trading solely on the name of the "artist".

Now I'm a grumpy old man I've seen nothing to cause me to revise my opinion :)

[J.J.]

Next you're going to tell us all those 2-page pamphlets dominating KU back in the days when they paid by borrow weren't actually books.

[Ian]

Probably wrong Ian, but no, they were not.

[J.J.]

Awww...

[Graeme]

Hi J.J. for some reason your last link became a hyperlink.

[Graeme]

There are many examples of 'art,' that have nothing to communicate to the viewer, precisely because the 'artist,' has nothing to say.

Mute artist = mute art.

[J.J.]

Graeme wrote: "Hi J.J. for some reason your last link became a hyperlink."

I know. I thought it was funny...