The Left Bank...a cafe and gallery for Lit artists and art lovers

Revival ...

ariosto said:
Uh oh...I think we're fading here....(Artists are so fickle!)

here's another update on the drawing of Sienna I'm doing in stages at AMPIX....

http://www.literotica.com/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=2584348

Hi Ari ... I'm afraid I've been a bit busy with other things.

The picture of Sie is looking good ...

Right ... new topic in the form of some questions. Everyone is free to answer, giving some kind of reasons for their replies. Add some questions of your own too if you feel like it.

1. Is art too elitist?
2. What is the best exhibition you have seen?
3. What is your favourite room in your favourite gallery?
4. Which artist do you think is grossly overrated?
5. Which one art work would you like to have hanging/standing in your house?
6. What do you dislike about galleries?

That'll do for now ... :)
 
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Starfire said:
1. Is art too elitist?
Absolutely! - Typically Art tends to depict imagery taken from History or Topical and not everyday life, focusing it specifically on an audiance that will appreciate it and not the average man in the street. Critics too think they are Artists although without the skills.
What is the definition of an Artist?

2. What is the best exhibition you have seen?
Childrens Art at a local kindergarden. Fantastic !!

3. What is your favourite room in your favourite gallery?
I don't have a favorite gallery and therefore no favorite room

4. Which artist do you think is grossly overrated?
Pretty much most of them, philistine that I am. I think all Artists produce once in their life a masterpiece, something that is spontaneous and uncontrived. I think they then try to recapture that over and over and fail

5. Which one art work would you like to have hanging/standing in your house?
Honestly None, well (Apart from the piece which Ari did for me which is personal and special) In terms of Sculptures, I love ethnic wood carvings from those unknown people who will never be associated with their work.

6. What do you dislike about galleries? Pretention


That'll do for now ... :)
Indeed it will :)
 
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Starfire said:

1. Is art too elitist?

I don't think art itself is elitist. The "art world" certainly can be however. I think there is art out there for everyone - depending on what your tastes are and what you consider art. That's the beauty of it.

Art critics have a different agenda. I don't think you have to have been an artist to be an effective critic. It could be that they are worth listening to precisely because they exist outside the "fishbowl" that we artists exist in. They can be objective because they don't participate in the same way.

2. What is the best exhibition you have seen?

I have to pick just one? I don't know if I can do that!

3. What is your favourite room in your favourite gallery?

At this point, not having seen all of the big museums, I would have to say that I really enjoyed the room of modern paintings at the LA County Museum of Art. I enjoyed seeing which movie star had donated which artwork.

4. Which artist do you think is grossly overrated?

That's making me think too hard this afternoon. Actually, I know most people really like Renoir and he's not one of my faves, but "overrated" - I don't know.

5. Which one art work would you like to have hanging/standing in your house?

The first one that comes to mind is Van Gogh's painting of crows over a cornfield. But, really, just ONE! That's hard.

6. What do you dislike about galleries?

You can't touch the work! Some pieces just Beg to be touched.
That'll do for now ... :)
 
Sorry it's taken me so long to reply Star.

first point...
Art itself is not elitist, it's the people that define it that make it so. Not always but often.
I personaly..like the wonderful Mexican Muralists believe that art should not be sequestered from the people. I donn't mena that we should tear down our museums. They are necessary for conservation and protection...but I don't think they should be priced beyond the means of ordinary people.

Second point...
Very hard to picka favorite exhibition...I remember stumbling quite by accident intoa magnificent show of Bouguereau's in Montreal many years ago. It was a real treat.

Third point...
Museums I assume is what you must mean. I am partial to a number of spaces at the art Institute of Chicago but they may be becuse it's the museum I'm most familiar with.

Fourth point...
Almost any one who paints like Anselm Keiffer.

Fifth point...
I'd love an Edward Hopper or a Georgia O'Keefe...of course a Modigliani would be nice too.

Six...
90% of the people that run them and 662/3% of the people that go to them.
 
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Artemesia said:
Damn. how do you do this fiddly selective quoting! I wanna respond to everything yousaid, Artemesia, but haven't quite got the hang of it!
 
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Originally posted by Starfire .

Damn. how do you do this fiddly selective quoting! I wanna respond to everything you said, . Artemesia, but haven't quite got the hang of it! .

Hey There Starfire How are things going It is Really Easy To Do This
If You select Enhanced Mode on the vB Code options box on the Left Hand Side of the screen Then you can just select the tags as you need them And close them as you want To make really stupid colorful comments like this one :)
 
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Starfire said:

Damn. how do you do this fiddly selective quoting! I wanna respond to everything yousaid, Artemesia, but haven't quite got the hang of it!

I just hit "quote" on your post and deleted the parts I didn't want ot respond to.

And I just learned something from Snork about playing with the colors n' stuff!
 
A boring little still life I did...
 

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1. Is art too elitist? It has become so as it has become "fashionable" - an exclusive club. People who cannot "do" themselves feel excuded in some way, and that is not healthy.

2. What is the best exhibition you have seen? For sheer, unadulterated enjoyment it would have to be the Dali at The Tate in 1978.

3. What is your favourite room in your favourite gallery? The garden of Barbara Hepworth's studio in St Ives, Cornwall, UK.

4. Which artist do you think is grossly overrated? Gilbert and George.

5. Which one art work would you like to have hanging/standing in your house? - Who asked this stupid question in the first place? :) I gues sit would be one of Cézanne's paintings of
Montagne Sainte-Victoire, but I am not sure which one.

6. What do you dislike about galleries? The pretentiousness of many who go there; the fact that sculptures cannot be touched in most cases; the fact that they have the power to dictate "taste".

A big hello to Ari, SM, Art and anyone else I have missed.
 
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Snork Maiden said:


Hey There Starfire How are things going It is Really Easy To Do This
If You select Enhanced Mode on the vB Code options box on the Left Hand Side of the screen Then you can just select the tags as you need them And close them as you want To make really stupid colorful comments like this one :)

S m a r t a s s :rolleyes:
 
WOW!

This place is becoming a work of art in itself.

Question for the day...

Is it important for art to speak to a broad spectrum of the public or not?

Hi Wordsmith...welcome
 
ariosto said:
WOW!

Question for the day...

Is it important for art to speak to a broad spectrum of the public or not?


My first impulse is to say "no" - that in trying to speak to everyone you speak to no one - my example being Malevich's white on white square that was supposed to be something so basic that everyone could relate to it. And I always wanted to argue that "yeah, everyone can relate to a square - but by making it so basic, he stripped it of ANY meaning."

But...

I will say that IF your goal is to start a dialogue, get people talking, make your audience see humanity's similarities through Your work, then you have to make it accessible so that people can understand what you're trying to get across. I have a real problem with artists getting bent out of shape because no one "gets it." If you really and truly wanted them to "get it," you should have communicated more democratically.

On the other hand...

Realistically, only a scant handful of people may ever understand Exactly what you're trying to say (if, indeed, you're trying to say anything.) IF you do connect with those few, you either need to take them to coffee and have a great time OR sign all of you up for therapy because you all have the same issues to work out!

Finally....

We all look for and interpret things differently - I guess we need to have a chat about semiotics next.

(I like this - I feel like I'm in college again.)
 
ariosto said:
WOW!

This place is becoming a work of art in itself.

Question for the day...

Is it important for art to speak to a broad spectrum of the public or not?

Hi Wordsmith...welcome
I was a graphic artist for awhile, and really got burned out on creating what others wanted. As I now get back into non-computer generated art, that work will simply speak to me... though of course I hope others like it.

There is a place for commercial art, art for the public, but if I am going to pick up my pastels or a brush again, it will be because I have something to say, not that I think I have something I think will appeal to others, at least not in this stage of my life.
 
ariosto said:
WOW!

This place is becoming a work of art in itself.

Question for the day...

Is it important for art to speak to a broad spectrum of the public or not?

Hi Wordsmith...welcome
I was a graphic artist for awhile, and really got burned out on creating what others wanted. As I now get back into non-computer generated art, that work will simply speak to me... though of course I hope others like it.

There is a place for commercial art, art for the public, but if I am going to pick up my pastels or a brush again, it will be because I have something to say, not that I think I have something I think will appeal to others, at least not in this stage of my life.
 
The Snowmaiden

A belated Birthday present for Snork to bump this thread and make it pretty!

Graphite on paper about 16 by 10 inches.

Thanks beautiful!
(Weren't you freezing?!)
 
*Pops in, waves Hello*

Ari, when do I get that return visit at the Bohemian?

It's evolved quite a bit since its inception. Now full of quotes from Beat Generation hipsters such as Kerouac and Ginsberg, music from the 30s through the early 60s, (blues, jazz, ballads) a few original works of art coming through now, and have recently added a gallery for 'tasteful' erotic art and photography. Drop by again sometime when you're bored.
~smiles~

Miss all of ya!

:rose:
 
Ari ! - It's awesome :) { { HuGs } } , thank you so much what a lovely b'day gift.

You are just too talented !!

It wasn't that cold really, only when the breeze blew :) <brrrrrrrr>

Ro:kiss:

Is my AV in line with your 'think pink' Arden ?
 
Snork Maiden said:
Ari ! - It's awesome :) { { HuGs } } , thank you so much what a lovely b'day gift.

You are just too talented !!

It wasn't that cold really, only when the breeze blew :) <brrrrrrrr>

Ro:kiss:

Is my AV in line with your 'think pink' Arden ?

ROFLMAO... The 'Think Pink' was due to a total creative breakdown at the time... I couldn't come up with anything!

That is a beautiful birthday gift, Ro!

:rose:
 
New and better scan

Heres another scan of the drawing and I think a much better one...
 
Hi Ari...

I left a song for you over at the Bohemian in honor of your visit... but the song truly belongs here... Thanks for stopping by!

:rose:

Arden
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Paris Blues
Duke Ellington

Left bank café,
Strollin the quays,
Watching the boats on the Seine
come back again.
Where is that girl I met,
That girl that made me get those
Paris blues and wonder?
Why did I have to roam?
I was so much at home,
Ev'ry lovely evening
in a cozy café,
Sipping champagne
along the main boulevards.
She was so fine,
just like the wine.
Now ev'ry day is black.
Please, someone, send her back
so I can lose those Paris blues.
 
Wanders into the deserted cafe, and wonders what has become of all of the talented, friendly folk that used to pass the time of day here, chatting, sharing their passion for art and music...

:confused:
 
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