what kind of art "does it for you?" modern? post-modern? impressionist? nudes??

Question

WHY??? would you pay lots of money for it?? i like paintings and pictures of nature and animals, calming sort of pictures, but whats up with this modern obsession to have people who are almost dehumanized bloody and monstrous, why is it that macabre art is so bleeding appealing...? i find it freaks me out.

Answer 1

Many different art movements which were new at their time were seen as scandalous and 'bloody and monstrous'. The Impressionists, whom are almost universally admired today, were themselves seen as shocking radicals by the people and art establishment of the day. In fact their name derives from an insult made about them by an art critic after seeing Monet's 'Impression Sunrise'..."I care not for this 'Impressionism'!
Some of the most valuable paintings sold in recent years have been those of Vincent Van Gogh, who during his lifetime only ever sold one painting, and that was to his brother. Constable and Turner, two giants of English painting were derided and criticised for their work, Constable's work being described as being "...spattered by white paint all over." His painting where he placed a dung heap in the centre of the landscape caused outrage in polite London circles.
The point I am trying to make is that Art has always caused this kind of debate. Sometimes works of art are not there to calm us and just look attractive. They should also make us think. For example, Picasso's huge masterpiece 'Guernica'. It is not just a virtual monochromatic series of random images, it has a power and visual hold over the viewer. When one is told the background to the execution of the painting, (the carpet bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War) the distraught woman, the grotesque screaming horse, the burning buildings, all begin to make sense. The artist is attempting to explain something to us.
The great thing about painting is that there are many different styles and subject matter that we can pick and choose what we want on our walls. If some things freak you out, well that's good too because those pictures are provoking a reaction in you. They would have failed miserably as artworks had they got no response from you at all.

Answer 2

You must remember that art is fashionable, it always has been. Even Rembrandt could not make a living and died destitute and he had been a very famous artist years before.
Now to answer your question....what 'turns an artist on' these days is to try and be sensationalistic. They will turn to the 'latest trend' and try to cash in.
some artist's are extremely talented and can pull it off so to speak, but others who produce very inferior art for arts sake are a blight on peoples sensibilities.
My particular rant is the so called artists who think they can ''do modern art'' and yet have no draughtsmanship skills.....How anyone can think they can make contemporary 'good art' without the basic skills I will never know. You need a Hell of a lot of painting experience before you can even think of ''messing up convention''. An expert can always root out spurious art though, that purports to be modern contemorary innovation..........thank goodness!
Art is not about painting pretty pictures of calm, beautiful, and camera likenesses. Art is the interpretation of feelings, abstract ideas, and inovation. Many artist's these days will use video and constuctionism to convey a certain feeling or make a political comment through shocking us with outragious images. I personally think (and I am a professional artist) think its inovative to a certain degree and has a passing interest, but will not last like a well concieved painting, done in the conventional way. By that I mean mixing colours and applying them to a board or canvas. Style is another question.....That also comes from the artists mind. It is like handwriting. It has to be developed. When it finally IS developed you get people like Monet AND Manet, Van Gough and Klimpt and artists who studied a particular aspect of their visionary experience. They are the artists who will be recognised in later years not these fly-by-night constructionalists and video artists....ugh!

Answer 3

Macabre art- I don't know, it sounds American. A sign of the anxiety of the times I guess. In Canada, it's still conceptual art that gets all the funding. I hate conceptual art. Well I don't hate it, but it bores the tar out of me. If I have to look and look and my mind is still blank and I feel no emotion and no aesthetic pleasure from looking at the art, and some intellectual has to explain to me in an essay what the whole point of the thing was, I think maybe the government could have buried all the money they gave those people in a hole instead. That would be conceptual art! That's how I feel. I love art that's expressive and colourful, whether it's abstract or representational.

Answer 4

That's a lot of questions, theres all different kinds of art. The most important kind is the kind that you like.

I like pictures of architecture, especially night scenes. I have a great print at home, its black and white and its of Grand Central Station, there are huge shafts of light coming throught the giant windows, its awe inspiring. I have an oil painting of new york at night, seen from a body of water, the moon is reflected of the rippling water, mostly blues and whites but with some colour speckled on the city and in its reflection.

Answer 5

Art should be spelt with a capital F. All it is is something someone has created for no practical purpose. It can be stupid, weird, beautiful, macabre, wonderful, anything. I think most art is just crap. But, then it does get people talking about it.

Answer 6

I love Kandinsky's pictures. Especially abstract ones.
He manages colour like nobody else. You can see one of his painting and find a different thing each time.
It's great the way he shows feelings. And it depends on you (as an espectator) what you see, what you feel,what appeals you, but I'm sure you won't forget that painting.
Maybe he opened a kind of door to present "art".

Answer 7

Expressionism, definitely. Like Wassily Kandinsky. Something about it translates well from paint and canvas to mood and feeling. Macabre art is popular now because the whole "emo" culture is in, I think.... it'll go away soon enough, hopefully. :)

Answer 8

I prefer the traditional landscapes, flowers, animals. I just don't understand some of this modern art.

Answer 9

Portraits and landscapes also wild life some of the so called art today shouldn't be called art

Answer 10

I like Jamie Hewlett's stuff (Gorillaz/Tank girl). Comic Art and Pop Art is cool. I wouldn't pay a lot for it though.