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#1201
Posted 18 July 2018 - 05:39 AM
For the most part, modern art is laughably meaningless and unnecessarily disruptive where the only way most will understand what’s (maybe) going on is if they read an art “expert’s” 1,000 word descriptive essay. And if a piece of art needs to be accompanied by one of those...
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#1202
Posted 18 July 2018 - 08:19 AM
Who would be build a statue of? Steve Nash? Nelly Furtado? Jean Chretien? Paul Martin? Stephen Harper? Glen Clark? Gordon Campbell? Christy Clark? Maybe ol' Ujjal Dosanjh.
It couldn't be a politician, especially a conservative politician, because people would be offended. It couldn't be religious, because people would be offended. It couldn't be a white man, because people would be offended.
Oh I know, we could build a monument of a glass bottle going to the landfill when everybody thought it was going to be recycled.
#1203
Posted 18 July 2018 - 08:50 AM
^I like your idea of melting down all the stockpiled glass at Hartland and making a towering 30 foot blob. It would be cool until the sun came out and burned holes in everything around it.
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#1204
Posted 18 July 2018 - 09:09 AM
At that point it would be hot instead.
#1205
Posted 18 July 2018 - 09:13 AM
Indeed.
#1206
Posted 18 July 2018 - 09:17 AM
Iconic folks (not politicians) get statues. Eg. Terry Fox. QE2 or Queen Victoria (though these days, probably passe and will offend people like Lisa Helps). How about Chris Hadfield?
#1207
Posted 18 July 2018 - 09:24 AM
Iconic folks (not politicians) get statues. Eg. Terry Fox. QE2 or Queen Victoria (though these days, probably passe and will offend people like Lisa Helps). How about Chris Hadfield?
See thats why that particular brand of leftism is so cancerous. No past, no history, no culture, no identity, no art. Just grievance and privilege and victimhood for ever and ever
#1208
Posted 18 July 2018 - 09:56 AM
Arthur Currie? Trying to think of notable people with strong connections to Victoria.
#1209
Posted 18 July 2018 - 10:00 AM
The problem with "realistic" figurative sculpture is that it's so out of fashion, few people practice it anymore so the quality is often really sub par.
#1210
Posted 18 July 2018 - 10:07 AM
The problem with "realistic" figurative sculpture is that it's so out of fashion, few people practice it anymore so the quality is often really sub par.
The other problem is that most of the old statues were of truly terrible people, largely wealthy white imperialists. No thanks.
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#1211
Posted 18 July 2018 - 10:07 AM
How about this guy mourning the loss of a plastic bag? The sorrow is especially palpable as this isn't a single-use plastic bag, illustrating how every life can be cut short prematurely.
#1212
Posted 18 July 2018 - 10:29 AM
The other problem is that most of the old statues were of truly terrible people, largely wealthy white imperialists. No thanks.
*tips fedora*
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#1213
Posted 18 July 2018 - 10:48 AM
The other problem is that most of the old statues were of truly terrible people, largely wealthy white imperialists. No thanks.
I'm trying hard to make a list of decent, honourable white men but all I've been able to come up with is Terry Fox, Mr. Rogers and Keanu Reeves.
#1214
Posted 18 July 2018 - 10:56 AM
I'm trying hard to make a list of decent, honourable white men but all I've been able to come up with is Terry Fox, Mr. Rogers and Keanu Reeves.
Santa Clause?
#1215
Posted 18 July 2018 - 04:43 PM
#1216
Posted 18 July 2018 - 04:51 PM
...the most part, modern art is laughably meaningless and unnecessarily disruptive where the only way most will understand what’s (maybe) going on is if they read an art “expert’s” 1,000 word descriptive essay. And if a piece of art needs to be accompanied by one of those...
IMHO, your issue is you continually look for obvious meaning in art instead of letting it speak to just you, AND then debating your opinion with those you are with.
All art is meant to create discussion and debate. You know, like what the f@ck is Mona Lisa's issue?
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#1217
Posted 18 July 2018 - 05:14 PM
I used to be one of those "modern art is crap" types but nowadays I do enjoy the discussion around what more abstract art means. Though that does create a line between art that needs to always be contextualized vs art that speaks for itself.
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#1218
Posted 18 July 2018 - 05:14 PM
^ But Santa is multi-national and different colours depending on lore. You know kinda like Jesus.
And just as real.
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#1219
Posted 19 July 2018 - 09:33 AM
Too many artists try to be sensational or controversial and it gives their work attention ...but then the public moves on to the next bizarre installation that appears in a public space.
So much what we've seen materialize on our streets is disposable art that lacks timelessness and won't transcend as a testament of our time or as a reflection of our present day culture. It'll just be there for future generations to walk past paying it no heed.
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#1220
Posted 19 July 2018 - 12:26 PM
Just to be on topic I went by today and the piece indeed will be a fountain.
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