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We took the ferals to Brisbane yesterday and watched 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.
Because it's been thrashed by our film critics, my expectations were low, however it wasn't THAT bad.
Hugh looked a little 'over it' all so that his co star Liev Schreiber stole the show--for me that is.
Afterwards I managed to spend a couple of hours at the Gallery of Modern Art which is showing The China Project.
Unlike the blockbuster movie; my expectations were high.
Well there were very few poorly executed works, Chinese art schools seem tochurn outturn out artists with lots of technical ability, however there was something lacking.
A certain sameness.
A sense that I've seen it all before.
Sure I'm always thrilled to see paint on large canvases and so forth but...
Maybe I'm over the whole art thing?
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hum, that is your photo though, right? and it is really cool!
I went to the Dayton Museum to see William Morris Glass and kind of not expecting much. I had goosebumps, I was gobsmacked, I was drooling. There was passion in the work, dedication to craft and it was aesthetically stunning. I rarely walk out of a exhibit feeling that way nowadays.
Well Basquiat still does it for me but then it screaming his own voice.
They churn out artists here too, but maybe not at the same rate as in china?
The good thing about seeing through the pseudo-art is that when you see something that really thrills you,it will thrill you right down to your socks.
I have been active in theatre since 1971 (no, that can't be right) and I just saw a show that people raved about and it was such artificial trash that I almost left halfway through but stayed out of politeness. My problem is, when someone asks what I thought I tell the truth.
over the art thing, or just discerning?
besides, if you were always impressed by the art you see then it wouldn't mean much, eh?
Yes,yes,yes there is something wrong with the picure. Surely globalism, the internet and the market men will lead to a homogeneous puke.
What I sense is a sameness of spirit and what I see are shameless hands out stretched.
Just like movies, I think this generation has access to and seen too much art - one is not surprised anymore.
Art is losing it's special appeal - it's time to go back to another generation and find the embers from the original fire.
Even though I own a dusty ex library tome on his work, I haven't thought about Morris for years. And Basquiat...what's not to like like; to envy? You're absolutely right Jafabrit about that churn. I wasn't do much bagging the Chinese artists in this perfectly fine exhibition as giving voice to a certain sadness at my inability to be inspired by contemporary painting. Thanks and yes it is my image; I like to illustrate my scanty paragraphs.
I draw the line at walking from artwork to artwork exclaiming utter unqualified disgust at the exhibition in question Michael. Fong who noted this behaviour on the part of an especially arrogant couple of ignoramuses; wondered why they were in art gallery in the first place?
Hello Jon...Discerning, maybe. More likely just that part of my ballardian personality that feels compelled to yell ‘the sky is falling, the sky is falling.’
Ah hem, Phlem I feel that we have met somewhere and that we share a certain dark, skewif and dystopian view?
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