Using a process that could be the new definition of meticulous, Korean sculptor Seung Mo Park creates giant ephemeral portraits by cutting layer after layer of wire mesh. Each work begins with a photograph which is superimposed over layers of wire with a projector, then using a subtractive technique Park slowly snips away areas of mesh.
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Beautiful.
Meanwhile in Europe This:
http://yasoypintor.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/quayola-memo-akten.jpg
Which is nothing but plastic sticks tossed at random is considered art.
Now there is somebody with OCD.
You realize that it requires a photograph four or more screens laid at different angles on some wooden frames, and lots of time using your eye as a photometer. Take away the photograph and voila … art…
It could be done using a cheap scanner, a cheaper CPU and a propane, butane or Acetylene cutting torch on a raster scanning mechanism.
You scan the image, set the depth of the flame equal to the white value of a pixel, going over the screens from whitest to darkest and you could be done in about a minute.
Cute but … really… its not art.
So in your opinion – what is art? Because in my opinion – you just describe it. All art begins with a source, adds, subtracts, or modifies the materials, and ends with a product.
“Art is a conspiracy between rich people and artists to make poor people think they are dumb.” Vonnegut. Cats Cradle I think.
Now, define crafts for us?
So a model posing against a beautiful background is Art… but the guy who paints her with oils is just a craftsman. According to your post a photographer recording the image is also just a craftsman. This begs the question, what is the difference between your definition of Arts and Crafts? My local bodywork man is a craftsman but I’d swear he’s an artist it’s all a matter of perspective…Oops I just answered my own question. Never mind.
So…. Vermeer…. not an artist? Holbien too? Vermeer used a camera obscura to project an image onto his painting surface. A great many artists throughout history used various means to project an image of their subject to help them with the final work.
Chuck Close…. not an artist.
van Gogh… not an artist.
You have a very impoverished view of what art is.
Only because “culture critic” is in my nom de flame, I don’t get whats going on here. I understand perspective and depth and how it could change and be pieced together on screens–but I don’t get this.
And thats ok.
As PeainhisPod was close to expressing: its not art, its crafts.
Both are very much worth doing, but only for yourself. All else is BS as identified in the next thread.
I think that crafts are generally useful items while art is something to look at. Crafts can be artful and art can be crafty, but if it isn’t useful or worth looking at it is probably junk. But we each have our own ideas of what fits in those categories.
Thats true enough. Fair enough. I think “art” has some originality to it? Crafts takes a fully formed idea and then just does something derivative and tedious with it? Percentages of each normally applies?
Its a very gray area though with it being sufficient to say that anything with any gray at all is not “true” art==or just the opposite. Crafts can be very satisfying.
My own project: years ago I made a Buddha Head out of flour, salt, and water. Having no skill, I took measurements of a 2 inch model and scaled it up to 3 feet. Petty darn good final object D’art and I feel satisfaction every time my gaze falls on the bobbobuddha. Not a thing artistic about it except the first idea of doing the thing. After that: pure craft work.
Most of life is definitional, with few possessing or able to use a dictionary.
Actually, I rather like it. Beats the hell out of that stupid scream painting that some rich tard just bought.
There are some wonderful painted screens in Baltimore:
http://paintedscreens.org/painterstoday.html
It’s a folk art thing that goes back several generations.
Welcome to Baltimore.
The renowned architect Frank Gehry put up one of his daringly expressive buildings in my area, and I told people I thought it looked like a menacing alien spaceship. A friend chided me, saying “Well, I see a bird in it!”. Ah, who am I to argue over such things.
Mr. Vonnegut also said: “I admire anyone who actually finishes a work of art, no matter how awful I think the result is”.
“E” for Effort, I suppose… or maybe “I” for Imagination?
I know a lot about art, but I don’t know what I like.
(call me an enlightened philistine)
Beautiful. I seen some creative work with metals and mesh before, but this is pretty amazing.
That is really an impressive piece of art. It definitely needs meticulous handiwork and detailed collaboration, alongside patience and dedication. Who would have known that screen door meshes could be taken apart and put back together to form a very unique portrait.