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Huh, I could have made that!

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StarDreamer Sat 16-Jul-22 16:09:57

Ah, but the people who say that didn't and that is an important factor.

Modern art is more than what is physically presented, it is about the thoughts that led to the art being produced.

Please discuss.

FannyCornforth Mon 18-Jul-22 08:53:21

Are you going to show us an example of this Grid / Button art please SD?

FannyCornforth Mon 18-Jul-22 08:51:51

Ah, yes, Maw

? We've been to Button Moon
And followed Mr Spoon ?… ?

MawtheMerrier Mon 18-Jul-22 08:47:14

youtu.be/Rn-54TtTV18

StarDreamer Mon 18-Jul-22 08:37:47

The pink one at lower left can be original.

The pink one at upper left can be imaginative.

The centre of the top row stability.

The one left but one in the top row as courteous

The one right but one in the top row as hostile as it is next to awkward.

Ah, the top row now has a meaning for each.

StarDreamer Mon 18-Jul-22 07:55:26

NotSpaghetti

Are all the buttons the same shape/size? I've assumed they are.

Now I will choose all different shape/size buttons from your button box and then I can have even more fun. I'll weight the bottom left and lighten the top right! ?

> Are all the buttons the same shape/size? I've assumed they are.

They are in the original idea. But it now appears that was just the start of an adventure in art.

> Now I will choose all different shape/size buttons from your button box and then I can have even more fun. I'll weight the bottom left and lighten the top right! ?

Fine.

But can you be more specific please?

So what happens at upper left and lower right?

StarDreamer Mon 18-Jul-22 07:46:59

MrsKen33

Terre vert is an oil paint colour beloved of art students in the 60s. Along with burnt sienna and rose madder.

Pink and white in my head does not fit. I dislike the combination. Therefore change to one green. If I could start a grid of my own it would be dark blue buttons with one random dark green

You can start a grid of your own. You do not need permssion.

StarDreamer Mon 18-Jul-22 07:44:13

MissAdventure

Wait for me!
I put the pink button down the bottom because it reminded me of a 'Space Invaders' game. blush

So that design can have the meaning invasive.

NotSpaghetti Mon 18-Jul-22 06:17:30

Are all the buttons the same shape/size? I've assumed they are.

Now I will choose all different shape/size buttons from your button box and then I can have even more fun. I'll weight the bottom left and lighten the top right! ?

MrsKen33 Mon 18-Jul-22 04:57:40

Terre vert is an oil paint colour beloved of art students in the 60s. Along with burnt sienna and rose madder.

Pink and white in my head does not fit. I dislike the combination. Therefore change to one green. If I could start a grid of my own it would be dark blue buttons with one random dark green

MissAdventure Sun 17-Jul-22 23:57:00

Wait for me!
I put the pink button down the bottom because it reminded me of a 'Space Invaders' game. blush

Baggytrazzas Sun 17-Jul-22 23:50:39

Sorry folks this is just too much thinkng for my poor under educated brain, so I will leave it with you intellectuals.

NotSpaghetti Sun 17-Jul-22 23:48:45

Yammy
Zeitgeist?

MissAdventure Sun 17-Jul-22 23:12:16

Well, I'm sure I'm wrong.
I usually am. smile
I haven't an artistic bone in my body.

Does your daughter still do art stuff?
I wish I could; it must be lovely.

Yammy Sun 17-Jul-22 22:04:06

MissAdventure

The point if conceptual art is that someone thought to do it.
We can all copy it, but we didn't think up the concept. (Not that I want to dance in a circle with my finger up someone else's bottom)

I'm not so sure about that. My DD did Art at A level one project was to reproduce themselves in an unexpected way. She did a sculpture half was her own face the other she used DH old dissection books and depicted a dissected out half head of herself. I'm pleased to say she got an A. Shortly afterwards Damien Hurst presented the world with his dissected half head to great aclaim. She certainly didn't copy , her ideas were her own.

Chewbacca Sun 17-Jul-22 21:55:01

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Chewbacca Sun 17-Jul-22 21:49:16

I've found an alternative site to the charity shop art works. It's where people replicate the painting in their own homes and there are some howlers!

MayBee70 Sun 17-Jul-22 21:29:05

grannydarkhair

For those who are enjoying the Museum of Bad Art, there’s a Facebook group called Terrible Art in Charity Shops. I’ve wasted many a happy minute or two browsing that ?

Some of them are very rude aren’t they!

Chewbacca Sun 17-Jul-22 21:22:43

We're on a theme here....... that black cow shouldn't be there; it should be back in its place and the 3rd row orange one should be down in the corner. I'm right aren't I?

Chewbacca Sun 17-Jul-22 21:16:12

Oh goody grannydarkhair I'm off to have a look......

grannydarkhair Sun 17-Jul-22 20:25:51

For those who are enjoying the Museum of Bad Art, there’s a Facebook group called Terrible Art in Charity Shops. I’ve wasted many a happy minute or two browsing that ?

grannydarkhair Sun 17-Jul-22 20:19:19

StarDreamer As the initial placing of my pink button was random, then the number of buttons in each of the “protecting walls” should also be random.
However, I see the grid as a closed finite space, so it’s irrelevant where the pink button lands as it can be protected anywhere on the grid. Hence, my description of the pink button as the “beating heart”, as any beating heart is protected within any finite body.
I like the contrast between the rigidity of the grid as opposed to the lack of rigidity in the placement of the buttons.

MissAdventure Sun 17-Jul-22 20:08:12

It is rather sweet, I agree. smile
They seem to have their own personalities.

StarDreamer Sun 17-Jul-22 20:06:31

I like Two trees in love. There is something lovely about that picture.

MissAdventure Sun 17-Jul-22 20:01:48

When I win the lottery I shall have a grand entrance hall, filled up with bad art like that.

Chewbacca Sun 17-Jul-22 19:55:45

grin Now that I could live with! At least it made me laugh!