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Quote from: scriver on October 12, 2016, 02:02:19 am

Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on October 11, 2016, 08:55:45 pm

Quote from: itisnotlogical on October 11, 2016, 08:33:05 pm

Displaying a random piece of anything and saying "There, solve it" is not interesting and, in my opinion, not art. I just turned a mug on my desk upside-down and called it "The Death of Diana Ross". Figure that one out.

The upside down mug is the perversion of order. Though Diana Ross still lives, the inverted mug invokes her death through the clear connection to the minor arcana of cups. Imagine existence beneath the mug: closed off, sweltering, dark, and confusing. The very vision of death, but not just death of the body, the tortuous life-in-death of the Ancient Mariner. This is the fundamental experience of Ross, who attained fame yet still was discriminated against for her skin color and wished dead by many, utterly unable to avoid the living death of a reality mired in racism.

The body lives on, but the spirit is caught, ground by the careless systems of our civilization in pain and death. Horrifying.

Truly, the art is in the interpretation, and not the object.

Kind of exactly this. I've had several Art and Art History instructors say basically this.

All art is an act of intentional communication, from creator to audience. The art object are like the words. The art itself is the meaning the listener (the audience) derives.

That said, flip a mug upside down and give it a nonsense name, and some members of the audience will see what you're intending to say. "Abstract Art is Bullshit". Totally a valid artistic message. Of course, intended meanings don't always come across; you might end up with MSH-style interpretations as well. And oddly, those are valid too. The meaning they create and draw from it is real. (Though I would say it's a miscommunication. If that's how it goes for you more often than not, you're probably not a very good artist.)

How middle class are you? Independent
I got 0, of course.

Did the same for the middle class test by the Telegraph,
1. I got a NutriBullet as a present.

Social class test: Britbong Beeb Corp edition
I got "Emergent Service Workers." Young, urban, financially insecure, but somehow still cultured, a little bit.

Note: I am a real American, so take that as you will. I didn't know half of the shit they were asking.

D2 repeats tomorrow.