Huh, I could have made that!

Am I dismissed then for being subversive.?

I really like this one by Tracey Emin.

Tracey Emin: Roman Standard

I like this, seen at Chatsworth Flower Show a couple of years ago then Burghley House

MrsKen33

Am I dismissed then for being subversive.?

No, not all.

Everyone is welcome to participate.

By changing colours you have added a new path of thought to our discussion.

Was it you who has trained as a professional artist?

I like to think of myself as an artist, but I am just a hobbyist who has a go.

I am now going to have a go as requested by Fanny.

MawtheMerrier

m.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-AXTHnsUY

I wonder if Aphrodite at the Waterhole still exists.

The Rebel (1961 film)

There are several excerpts from the film available on YouTube.

stardreamer yes , started at art school in the 60’s

Thank you.

FannyCornforth

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

Thank you for the request, Fanny.

These are sweet Fanny

More to come

Invasive

All of those are wrong StarDreamer and would drive me nuts if I had to live with them.

Chewbacca

All of those are wrong StarDreamer and would drive me nuts if I had to live with them.

Can you explain why please?

I really like the colours SD

Buttons are fab aren’t they Maw.
I used to love my nan’s button tin, so many little treasures.

A variation based on an idea suggested by an artist

Because they "jar" and don't "flow" with the dots in random places. This piece also "jars" on me because the wrong cow is in the wrong place.

NotSpaghetti

Yammy
Zeitgeist?

Maybe, he was meant to have gotten his idea from the children's game where you lifted intestines etc. out of a plastic body with tweezers.
We didn't have it but we had books that I always caught them in with all the dissections in vivid detail.
She was also once caught by a removal man with a hand full of teeth. Skeletons were real in those days and they had come down off the loft for our move.

Art is only worth what anybody pays for it. I don't understand or appreciate modern art generally. Occasionally I like a modern art picture purely for the colour, but the installations of bricks, unmade beds etc leave me laughing at the gullibility of the people who spend a lot of money on them. The emporer's new clothes comes to mind. But as always each to their own.

Chewbacca

Because they "jar" and don't "flow" with the dots in random places. This piece also "jars" on me because the wrong cow is in the wrong place.

I agree with you, I would want to put them into a pattern. I can't see outside the obvious box. DD got it from two of her G Grandmothers on my and DH side.

MissAdventure

I have a work of Eminesque art in my bedroom as we speak.
An unmade bed.

I do see the artistic merit of her bed, though.
I like it.

I am a philistine, I can't see any merit at all in her unmade bed.

Is there any, really?

StarDreamer

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.

A friend of mine years ago , an artist, told me he was at a gallery exhibiting his works, and had to stand and listen to critics harping on about how the artist was going through a blue phase, rolling moods etc etc ... he said he finally snapped at them and told them the blue paint ( which these paintings predominantly were) was almost all he'd had left in the studio that day!

Based on a suggestion posted in this thread

Now that's a nice one!

That's better StarDreamer!

Excellent idea for a thread, by the way StarDreamer; it's got so many people involved!

MibsXX

StarDreamer

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.

A friend of mine years ago , an artist, told me he was at a gallery exhibiting his works, and had to stand and listen to critics harping on about how the artist was going through a blue phase, rolling moods etc etc ... he said he finally snapped at them and told them the blue paint ( which these paintings predominantly were) was almost all he'd had left in the studio that day!

I remember reading that people did the same to the author of "The Lake Isle of Innesfree" ( I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree ) they were coming up with all kinds of deep symbolic reasons - three times three for the trinity, and so on - why he had picked NINE bean rows in particular for the lines.

"Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee.
And live alone in the bee-loud glade"

Eventually he told them there was no symbolism, it was just because nine was the best number to fit into the rhythm of the line.