If art doesn't immediately touch you...

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what's the reason for paying any mind to it? Or alternatively, give reasons why an intelligent person should WORK AT appreciating art.

― Alan T, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

usually, the more I find out about a piece of art, the MORE uninteresting i find the work. why is that? someone point me to some work of art criticism/theory where this will not be the case

― Alan T, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You probably just haven't seen the right art yet, what shows have you been too ? it's completely different seeing a work in the flesh to books etc. Have tried wondering through a national gallery until a work inspires you ? I have an imedidate responce to a work then i go and research it.

― nalini, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

those dungeons and dragons books?

ps i haf nevah paid them any mind myself

― mark s, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

art for me = impact, wonder, emotion. So, to analyse it, is to diminish the very things I liked about it in the first place. I think.

― jel --, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't get me wrong, there are some (precious few) works of art (I suppose I'm thinking primarily of visual art again) that I love. Wandering through a gallery? I practically race desperately trying to find something that touches me, wading through the corpse- like admirers of some piece of dung or other. it is different seeing stuff in books to in the flesh -- but never importanly so (TO ME!). What jel said about impact, wonder, emotion. But I disagree re analysis -- it can ONLY ADD.

So to re-summarise my position. I am currently touched by VERY LITTLE visual art given weight by the *ahem* "gatekeepers "concerned. I am led to believe (by some limited experience and some over-intellectualised conversation) that I might appreciate a lot more of our artistic cultual heritage if I WORK AT IT. but my little attempts at such work have usually enraged me. So i'm looking for fruitful in-roads that have helped others on such edjemacational matters.

― Alan T, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Personally, I've never been persuaded to like any art by explanation, though I might find it more interesting, intelligent and so on. What I do find is that the more I understand art, the more of it I see, the more I get out of it, and the more of it I enjoy. I have never worked at appreciating art, and I don't plan to start - I have read a few hundred books on art, but only to enjoy, never to better appreciate something I don't already like a lot.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If Art doesn't immediately touch you, he's probably found out about you and Paul. Betrayal rears its ugly head again.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(The above is my entry for the Worst Simon and Garfunkel Joke Ever competition.)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan that joke was brilliant! I also appreciated your comment on Anthony's thread, I was toying with posting "Just don't let old man poppadoppolis catch you peeping on him and his wife" but I decided against it.

― Ronan, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hated Andrew Wyeth's pictures and then I read a book about him and decided that I didn't hate them, they were just boring. But at least he had a reason for making them. That's my rationalization.

― Maria, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks, Ronan! I'm glad my purile sense of humor is bringing joy to others besides myself. :-)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, you bring much joy constantly! It is part of your evil goodness. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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