Who is a genius?
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- gramme0
The guy who developed the theory of everything seems like a bright fella.
- gramme0
I drink, therefore I
WHAM
- waterhouse0
Thomas Jefferson
I don't even think I have to explain but to say that he absorbed and excelled at everything that interested him.
- gramme0
I slump, therefore I'm glam.
- gramme0
I stink, therefore I scam.
- stem0
So why isn't their work as 'valued' as Banksy's
- Morning_star0
I get your point Stem but there is a chasm of difference between value and cost. Value is driven by market perception and personal need and a great PR firm can manipulate both. Whilst Banksy is undoubtedly an important artist he is no more or less a Genius than hundreds of other artists making their mark.
- Witt0
I think the word "genius" cannot be applied to visual arts without some very conspicuous dose of snobbery and pretence. It's just not in the nature of the craft itself to make such leaps in knowledge or techniques as the word "genius" implies. "Ingenious" would be as far as I would go.
- CALLES0
i am the most humble person in the entire universe
- stem0
For making a pile of wall (not worth much money) into something of great value.
That is the great 'trick' of art (and indeed graphics/design etc.). How do you get you client to buy your work? - You take something which has no value - i.e a blank canvas and you 'give it value' by putting 'your mark' on it. Then it is worth something to someone.
How much your work is worth depends on how much value is attached to it.
- So that is what art is reduced to? Selling techniques?Witt
- What else has it ever been about?stem
- You figure it out.Witt
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?stem
- I don't think so.Witt
- honestly I don't.Witt
- Good art is learning, not self-satisfaction. It's a path, not a democracy. If this is not true then Art is useless.Witt
- same old quarrel: stoicism vs epicureanism.Witt
- [grabs a book]...[pops popcorn]chris_himself
- oh the morality!Pupsipu
- stem0
I think that Banksy bloke is a Genius (with a capital G)...
- Why?Morning_star
- Who?Witt
- cause he has no face! how does he do that...?skii
- he's made me think "Genius!" with a few pieces.chris_himself
- dusty_shackle0
Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
- Mal0
Dr. Samuel Johnson as a paragon example, described genius as "a man endowed with superior faculties."
I am looking in my shorts and giving a thumbs up!
- GeorgesII0
does selling overpriced Imac and Iphone at an apple store makes me a genius?
- monoboy0
I'm pink, therefore I'm spam.
- mistermik0
i didnt like it in itunes
- JOSF0
- Witt0
Me. I can solve the rubik's in 17yrs, 2mm, 20dd, 7h, 30m and 07s.
- kodap0
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