Art: what do you think of this artist?

[Twiglett]

Just wondering what you think of this artist's work

(it's not controversial modern art done with blood or poo, I just kind of like the bloke's style)

agree yuk to JV

JV is like an Athena poster

Gosh I'd forgotten all about Athena

Can someone please tell me how this is art??
I just don't get it ... or Jackson Pollock - saw some of hi "art" a few weeks ago...don't get that either. Hmmmmm.
And don't get me started on the Tate modern ....

Whereas this is beautiful and by the same guy [confused emoticon]

I guess Athena dates me somewhat.

Love Mondrian

What's a "live" one Beetroot? Do you mean up close to a real one? I did that at the Tate Modern, thought it was a big mess. A spectacular big mess, but not worth £££

Maybe I should splash a bit of paint around next time I'm feeling a bit moody and make my fortune
Sorry, that sounded really flippant. It was awesome in that it was so huge and wild, but It's just not my thing really.

It is interesting to see what some people love and what some hate. I get frustrated with myself when I see what appears to me to be total crapola on display, being raved by other people as a fabulous work of art. I want to know why it's so good and why I can't see it.
This all stems from the bl**dy Tate Modern. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I saw.
I need some more wine now ...

I've just relayed this to DH and he says I am not an arty person, I like certainty and answers and art doesn't give me that. Hmmmm

Yeah of course we can be both. I love literature and read tonnes and tonnes, and I am quite artistic in things I make and do, but other people's art isn't always my cup of tea, that's all. What do men know, eh?

bibiboo: I think we're all 'arty' but we need to find works that reflect our 'world view' our own personal style / outlook.

If you like certainty and answers, photo-realistic work might tickle you more the abstract post modern impressionistic

Go gently with the fairer sex

An astrophysicist computer friend did lots of fractal prints many years ago. Perhaps that kind of thing resonates ?

oooo look who swallowed a dictionary

.. huh?, 'fractal print' ??? , anyone??? anyone???

Twiglett..... shame on you.

You know when you look closely at a cauliflower before you stick it in your MASSIVE GOB ....

And you see that same little pattern of tiny white vegetabley flowery bits in a kind of expanding circuarly shape ?

And then you draw away from said cauliflower, and you look at whole floret or indeed the whole vegetable, and you say to yourself "Well, blow me if that isn't some kind of repeated pattern."

There. You've just seen a fractal.

Now go and eat some cauliflower

This feels like 'Call my Bluff'

Fractal: Some kind of mathermatically derived self-referrential and self-repeating spirally wirally shape - found naturally or created by Komputer - makes retro trance hippeee images for those whole like conrete art with lots of answers.

Twiglett..... shame on you.

You know when you look closely at a cauliflower before you stick it in your MASSIVE GOB ....

And you see that same little pattern of tiny white vegetabley flowery bits in a kind of expanding circuarly shape ?

And then you draw away from said cauliflower, and you look at whole floret or indeed the whole vegetable, and you say to yourself "Well, blow me if that isn't some kind of repeated pattern."

There. You've just seen a fractal.

Now go and eat some cauliflower

This feels like 'Call my Bluff'

Fractal: Some kind of self-referrential and self-repeating spirally wirally shape - found naturally or can be mathermatically derived and created by Komputer - makes retro trance hippeee images for those whole like concrete art with lots of answers. Never fully understood by marmitious dwellers of the early ice age in what is now known as 'Sarf' London. Advanced beings from NORTH OF THE RIVER have 'got' fractals as long as 15 years ago.

Woops... second post is infinitely more witty.

From NorthoftheRiver with shaky handies.

Twiggers, there's this great Web site I've just discovered, and when you type in 'fractal' it shows you a few images.

For free !

I know this is important for ThosewholiveSouthoftheRiver.

It called boohoogle.

When you comin' over for a visit T ? Need to eat the MM beastlett of beauty.

This is one of my all time favourite pictures Madonna

and also i love matisse.