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It sounds like you're reaching escape velocity( in the information theory and simulated worlds thread at least).

I understand why you don't admire Van Gogh, I am the same about Matisse, so I am not critical of what you say about him or his work. I'm responding to...

He is clearly wrong, because he is considering both life and living to be the same thing, but regarded as two distinct things by the addition of a rei...

I will try to keep mysticism out of my remarks because I find on this forum it turns people away. But this does not mean that I don't recognise that t...

An interesting analysis, I see the truth in what you say, but rather than reply now, I will have a think and reply a bit later. Just one initial thoug...

This article asks if there is a current art movement going on. It mentions Neo Dadaism and Absurdist Art. I had noticed this in some galleries I visit...

Yes, thanks for that clarification, the artists concerned where trying to express themselves in a genuine way. What I was thinking of was that the who...

I agree, this is what I was trying to say when I mentioned the Brit Art phenomena in the 1990's, there was a marketing and media circus whipped up whi...

Interesting, it made me think of how up until the end of the medieval period art was a hammer with which to control the masses. Then there was a perio...

Yes, I don't see it as scathing, but helpful perhaps. Art as we know it? Sounds better to me. When I ask the question I am also thinking of art as oth...

Sufficiently I think. I don't think a precise definition is required to answer this question. Perhaps a practical description of the work artists prod...

I have started another thread on this topic. I don't know the answers to these questions and perhaps it's not for me to answer, as I feel I am fading ...

In recent times art has become appropriated by and merged with other forms of media and capitalised on by communications and media giants* seeking to ...

Either you're an American, or you're a ..........

I enjoyed your posts very much and your humility. In my own humility I am also on a journey through art, which is the joy of it. Please don't think th...

All this analysing of art is a recent development which has sprung out of academia and the interplay of artists striving to find something intangible ...

As is Van Gogh. So they have been put in boxes, good for the archivists I suppose.

There is an issue with critical interpretation of art in which art is reduced or compartmentalised by commentators, perhaps lecturers through an acade...

I'm not being critical of artists, or looking to restrict their freedom in any way. In my comment which you referenced I was commenting on criticism o...

It will be interesting once reality hits with the EU negotiations. I suspect we will hear very little as Johnson's way is to hide from the media and s...

The genre is of local landscapes and scenery, including wildlife and pastoral subjects. The fact that it includes a lot of plein air painting is incid...

I take it your response here is for me. Thanks for your praise, however the "clumsy" effect was meant to be like that. I use a technique in which I pu...

I asked you what lifted it above an amateur in the eyes of the people who had seen it and liked it. They told me that it was the background which made...

It is the way I made parts of the picture appear to be out of focus. This was actually very easy to do, but it required a creative vision when conceiv...

Nice post about creativity, I would say that there are artists who choose not to seek recognition for their work because it would become an unwanted p...

let's start again and then come back to the issues. This is a work I did last year, many people have said how they like it. What do you think lifts it...

You won't get any argument from me( tongue in cheek). I was referring to the piece above and the Einojuhani Rautavaara piece. Thanks again.

I will respond to your posts later as I am out at the moment. But have you had a few drinks or something? You keep asking people to restate what they ...

I feel your pain. P.s. thanks for bringing me to some great pieces of music.

I agree, the immersion in the art world as an artist and a viewer is what is fulfilling for me. Are you put off by the level of debate, or is it the l...

The developments in art during the 20th Century broke the critical perspectives in art in which art could not be appreciated unless the artist was dis...

It probably says more about the level of sensure in the country in which the gallery considering this is to be found. In the UK, I think the repulsion...

You know your favourite piece of music, an emotionally evocative piece. Well it's like that in relation to a painting. Of course you're allowed to not...

Yes, I agree, Van Gogh is popular at the moment, that will change. In my reply to Brett, I qualified my comments about Van Gogh, by saying that in the...

I don't prefer Picasso over Van Gogh, although I see him as a close second. I was talking of who was preferred by the public, or art world. Personally...

I have to agree with you about Van Gogh, unparalleled, except possibly by Picasso.

I think you'll find that Van Gogh is head and shoulders above Cezanne and Gaugan amongst connoisseurs of art. I can explain why tomorrow. More importa...

You didn't answer it, you said bacteria don't have minds. But now it seems that a mind is something associated with a brain and bacteria don't appear ...

Van Gogh, could paint, but he was trying to develop his own unique style and he was so successful that his works hold some of the highest values in th...

Thanks, I don't see what Greta has for her to be optimistic about. I thought she was calling them out for inaction.

Surely the act of saying something is art is the alteration. I am not disagreeing with you, I am largely in agreement, there is only a nuance of diffe...

Yes I view the whole word aesthetically. It is rather like a realisation I had years ago, I have a very broad sense of humour, in fact I reached a poi...

Ok, if that's the definition you're using it makes more sense. So the definition of a mind, is that which hosts a conscious state. This confirms what ...

Yes, perhaps these are two categories which can be considered when defining art. I have often thought of the artistry in a spider's web. Or the lack o...

You are free to find this to much to go along with, I am further along the spectrum than this, the end where far more can be considered for artistic m...

No worries, my response came out more as a rebuttal than was intended. You will only find me raising mystical viewpoints when I am specifically discus...

Either you're an American or you're a Democrat, oh well you might be a profit of doom, I suppose.

I didn't attribute minds to trees and bacteria. I said they may be conscious and that they produce art. The reason I asked you these questions about a...

I have by definition offered something relevant, or meaningful to the discussion, I have pasted a work I produced only a couple of days ago. So if my ...

Yes, but it's more complicated than that because there is a spectrum of opinion within the culture as to what constitutes art. So whether a person reg...