Brett

If it helps towards defining what art is I’d be interested.

I don’t know if that helps much in terms of originality. If the execution is done in a realist manner, as most portraits are done, then the artist is ...

To tell the truth it doesn’t really matter who’s better than who at the level we’re talking about. Nor does it help in defining art. Or maybe the disa...

I see, now. I wasn’t really ignorant of how we got by without the internet. It was in response to the idea that the internet is the library of human k...

I need to see my comment in context. I don’t even recall when I made it.

It occurs to me that the relic is the public experience of art. But it’s a long way from the act itself. Two completely different worlds.

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free. Elsewhere we are as sitting in a place where sunlight Filters down, a little at a time, Waiting ...

Picasso didn’t have a niche. Which is why I respect him so much. He challenged himself each day. Most artists find a vein and work it. Very few did wh...

Sometime ago I started an OP titled “Morality and the arts”. This was the OP; “ In her book “Wickedness” Mary Midgley wrote that ‘It is one main funct...

I guess the question is how interested is the public in art? And how are they exposed to it? And how are they to judge in ignorance? The public flock ...

Can anything survive commodification? The problem seems to be that despite something being commodified people still regard it as the genuine thing. Th...

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Yes, I can I imagine that. Not very impressive from what I saw.

A distinction needs to be made between commercial art and what you’re talking about as the Brit Art work. Commercial art and marketing was used to pro...

I know that’s not what you were saying. It’s what I was thinking about. I was suggesting commercial art was about persuasion. Art seems to be more abo...

Of all the things I’ve tried, followed or thought about, there were only a few true answers, a few revelations about life to help. Otherwise it’s not ...

Thanks. It wasn’t coming up on my screen.

I don’t understand the obsession with taxation except as some sort of revenge. The government wastes so much of the tax take through its systems and t...

I understand that. I was wondering what you thought was unethical about how he earned what he did. The problem seems to be about the amount he took fr...

Okay, that’s an answer, which is different from what VagabondSpectre gave which was more about how he spent it. I don’t know what the work conditions ...

Why do you think it’s unethical?

I think the objective in commercial art is ultimately about money. The art is one of many facets used to sell something, it could be butter, a country...

Sorry, I can’t help it, Electronic Rape.

Yes, so be careful, any rashes, ringing in your ears, metallic taste in your mouth ..... or, Sensation of Blunt Trauma to Head.

So the question should be; where is art as I know it going next? That’s not meant to be as scathing as it might sound. But true nevertheless, don’t yo...

Is that actually true, no tribal elders, no chiefs, no shamans, no female/male dynamics? All that equals power. And if that means security for the tri...

Presumably you’ve determined what art is?

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Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

Four years at uni. All work handed in then marked down if you used Wiki as a reference.

What exactly are we expecting from art? Anish Kapoor produces his big pieces, or should I say directs the construction of his big pieces, that are rea...

The objective of making money might be the only thing that distinguishes commercial art from “art”. The act of creating commercials and print ads come...

I tend to go along with you there. I can’t imagine an artist setting out consciously to create a movement. I’m not even sure they can chose the way th...

Just in relation to originality. Though you do say that art is “creativity ... to make something out of nothing ... an independent and original idea”....

I’d agree with that.

Yes, about who we are, but it’s an action that comes and goes quickly, like watching a dancer on stage. A painting, for instance, is only an artefact,...

Obviously perception. But it’s language that’s repositioning the work. And it’s a particular language being used in this case. Maybe I should have sai...

Okay. Well either I’m not being very clear or making sense, or you don’t understand. We’ll have to wait for someone else’s input.

The subconscious mind is primitive. That’s why I tend to think about art in terms of anthropology, in the study of early cultures and the things they ...

The conscious and the subconscious operate differently. The subconscious we’re not really aware of though it can operate on our actions. So an artist ...

Okay, that’s not much help. I’m including the subconscious for the artist. The viewer I’m not sure of. “In the strict psychological sense, the adjecti...

The same for the viewer. Are they operating on a subconscious level or not?

So that would rule out the subconsciousness. Is the subconsciousness in or out in our search for art?

Cezanne is not an Impressionist he’s a Post Impressionist, as is Gauguin.

Yes, I would think that’s quite a solid point, if you want art to be about psychology? It does expose something about being human. But I still don’t k...

As if it’s something outside of consciousness or subconsciousness. Is that what you mean, that art looks into man’s mind?

You placed Van Gogh among the naive artists ( I think you meant that). That’s an interesting field. It’s an aspect of art respected for its freedom fr...

I think, buried among this OP, there are a few statements worth holding onto. In a way philosophy is the only was to approach art otherwise it spins o...

I couldn’t answer the question because there’s nothing that lifts it above the work of an amateur. It’s actually the background that lets it down. You...

I don’t think I can answer that.