art opinions pls
Out of context: Reply #36
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- MrAbominable0
"the more people who agree, the more artistically credible a piece becomes. the more a piece is marketed, the more people agree. even smithson's earthworks can't escape this. without a community that takes his work seriously as art work, you've just got a bunch of rocks in a lake. unless you believe they have intrinsic worth.”
I don’t think that art is as much of a variable as is commonly championed . Pop art as commuted by Warhol denigrated the dada message of found art. Made it sort of ‘arbitrary’. People like Smithson and Gordon Matta Clark or any of the fluxus or performance people weren’t so concerned with the public opinion as they were in participation. Many of these pieces like the ice-cuttings were only casually, if at all, documented. Andy Goldsworthy is a more heavily marketed successor in the evolutioniary chain of these works. I would like his work better if I knew that these things existed more as objects than as pretty photographs.
"The difference between that and what you're looking at in technology is that the resolution on monitors is greatly cheaper than photo reproduction which in turn is far worse than a physical object."
“in what way is it worse? “
By this I mean that at present the resolution runs a poor 3rd place. It would be nice if pixels got smaller rather than screens getting bigger. The viewing experience is pretty limited online. Why look at a 72ppi image on screen if you can look at a 35mm print or better yet see the object that the photo was of? Resolution is not a strong point for web based artwork.
“i agree w/ you that variables associated w/ online delivery can make a viewer's experience unpredictable, but is that necessarily prevent the medium from contributing to artistic endeavours? the web already possesses its own tools - e.g., the ability to be seen anywhere at anytime, the ability to change over time, the ability to interact w/ a viewer. “
Precisely. I think that the internet’s contribution will be in the mutability and accessibility that it provides. Those elements it has in spades over old media. There isn’t a fine art yet from that realm that has impacted on the arts community.
Looks like we’re finding some common ground.