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11-06-2013, 01:14 PM
Compared to what? Art is a funny thing, it's hard to define it or rank it. Andy Warhol wasn't a great technician, but many would argue he was a great artist. Dali was a master of an artform which would eventually be taken over by computers, but his vision has probably inspired a lot of Sci-fi landscapes and the creation of the computer programs which can generate our surrealist images of imaginary outer space.
There was a time when Art School in college meant learning to reproduce the "greatness" of past artists, composers, writers, designers. Do I think that getting fucked on stage is a challenge or a step up from that? No. However, at the same time I realize that while we all know the name of the man who painted Mona Lisa, somebody painted the art we see on the walls of motels, restaurants, doctor offices, etc...
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11-06-2013, 05:17 PM
Uh, no.
Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr is a great painting, independent of the subject matter. Art can be erotic, and erotica can be artistic. The art is in the execution, the technical skill and the sheer beauty of the image. A great drawing or painting of the act that is going to be carried out by the student in the OP might qualify as art, but simply having sex onstage is no more art than it is when it's done at a peep show; this project is simply graphic sex, without any meaning beyond alleged shock value.
Art instruction meant learning the techniques of the past in order to advance the art of the present. Today, the techniques of the past are abandoned as too difficult by those who lack the discipline to learn them. Those who mastered those techniques produced great images while improving on what they had learned. Those who rebelled against them produced the various modern art movements whose sole criteria was often the absence of anything resembling talent.
Art is hard to define, but that doesn't mean that anything is art. Arroyo attempts to make the case that the subject matter of Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr could be construed as pornographic, and while some might argue that, there is no denying that it is also a work of great technical skill, and that it communicates more than just a desire to get down with a furry. In this case, there is no technique to master, it's simply a sex act, something that literally anyone can do, provided they are willing to abase themselves. It's not art, it's posturing, and the idea that this "student" should be given credit for something that takes no intellectual effort is sad and repellent.--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
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11-06-2013, 07:29 PM
"The future of art is photography" Andy Warhol
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11-07-2013, 01:28 AM
--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
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11-07-2013, 02:03 AM
Warhol is a nut but he isn't wrong. He isn't right either. Comparing art forms like painting or photography is like comparing baseball to football. It's a matter of taste as well as there's nothing wrong with liking both. I, personally, like paintings slightly better than photography only because it takes far more talent to paint than to point a camera at something and shoot it.
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11-07-2013, 09:11 AM
--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
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11-07-2013, 10:18 AM
Okay. The last Bouguereau, I promise.
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