Ash's Art Appreciation, Lecture #1

[names-ash.livejournal.com]

::Ash sits, his feet propped up on his desk,awaiting his coffee::

Alright, sign the attendance sheet, sit down, and shut up! There will be time for discussion after the presentation.

::dims the lights, and starts up the slide projector::

Alright, we're gonna start with the most basic of concepts, knuckleheads.

::He clicks to the first slide. It merely reads "WHAT IS ART?" in big blue letters::

That's right, what is art? I'm sure you could find a definition in one of them dictionary thingies, but I'm just gonna show you, got it?

::Clicks to the next slide, "The Mona Lisa"::

Art!

::Clicks to the next slide, Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Can"::

Not art!

::Next slide, "The Birth of Venus"::

Art!

::this continues for a good hour, of Ash simply declaring famous paintings Art or Not Art::

Alright, that's the lecture for today. Now, talk amongst your pretty little selves, and don't be afraid to ask any questions.

Comments

[likeguidelines.livejournal.com]

"I be agreein' with Jake. I think maybe he be hungry when he be paintin'."

He was thinking back to the Edward Avedisian (http://americanart.si.edu/images/1978/1978.147.1_1b.jpg) painting. "I be not sure it was art so much as paint swatch," he finally ventured. "T'me it says 'I be likin' pink'."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"So are we to say that because Andy was hankering for some Tomato soup while painting, that it's not art? Just because the inspiration was hunger doesn't mean that the inspiration should be discounted."

[OOC: Yep. Weirdest conversation thread today.]

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Because Still life painting is all about food, isn't it?

Bread, fruit, milk pitchers, that kind of thing?

So why wouldn't a soup can qualify as a still-life?

[likeguidelines.livejournal.com]

*scrunches up his face, trying to think*

Ye be havin' a point, I suppose. I guess we should be glad he wasn't hungry fer, I dunno, cabbages or rutabagas or some such. The cans be havin' a nice balance to 'em that I don't think would be carried out with produce.

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

Your Van Gogh did one (http://www.vincent.nl/?/gallery/paintings/jh81.htm). Cabbages and potatoes.

And this gal did too (http://www.artbymarcy.com/painting_pages/StillLifeOfCabbage.htm).

Sorry, no rutebagas. Anyone ever say your planetary nets are amazingly easy to navigate for being so primitive?

But no, I don't think stacking cabbages would have the same effect.

*is visualizing*

[[ooc: fear my l33t m4d h+m1]]

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

"The one with the pinks? Yes, yes, it kind of does say that," Jake agrees.

[likeguidelines.livejournal.com]

"I'm just sayin' if I had known that Ol Red Jim's drunken experiments with color would be worth somethin' here, I would've brought 'em with me."