Art critics

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Sure they did. Clearly they fucking did.

They charged her with one thing, she changed it, they charged her with something else.

Sounds like a vendetta to me....

They charged her with one thing and asked her to remove it... she removed it and added something else... they came back around to check to see if she had complied... she hadn't and now was in violation of something else...

I'm pretty sure they didn't have a meeting and say, "you know that bitch with the colorful wall in the low income area? Let's make her life a living hell..."

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

They charged her with one thing and asked her to remove it... she removed it and added something else... they came back around to check to see if she had complied... she hadn't and now was in violation of something else...

I'm pretty sure they didn't have a meeting and say, "you know that bitch with the colorful wall in the low income area? Let's make her life a living hell..."

Cute cat, douchenozzle.

She had the same mural repainted without the single word that they took exception to, then they changed the game, and charged her with something else.

[defector]

Didn't it say they originally came out due to a neighbor's complaint?
Also why not just have the mural painted on "her" side of the wall, so she can enjoy it in peace?

[Archren]

Originally Posted by CasterTroy

That's just stupid


But having said that.....



I hate to say it...but the blame falls partly on the "artists"

So many people hide behind "it's art" these days that it's hard to really define "art" any more.

So who is to say someone is an "artist" and who's not?

My example would be someone taking a shit on the sidewalk, roping it off and calling it "art"



Change gears for the sake of an example......

As someone who's worked in music.......would you consider Rebecca Black an "artist"? Or just some stupid twit with a song that's infecting the ears of our youth and watering down what is true "music"

Hard to say. Art is purely subjective - some people would consider the taking a shit on a sidewalk art (ever heard of a type of art called Dada?).

Not having a clear look at the entire compilation itself makes it hard to make a judgment. What I can see from the photo in the article really isn't an eyesore, in my opinion - that is, the abstraction works for me. And that is where subjectivity falls into play.

What the artists (or, more accurately, the woman commissioning the work) should have done is check into the rules about that sort of thing. Just like photographers in Texas have to abide by a law that covers "improper photography" (which, in some cases, has been enforced ridiculously), artists who want to paint in common/public areas (or anything in view of the public) need to make sure they do it the right way.. or risk exactly what happened.

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by CasterTroy

As someone who's worked in music.......would you consider Rebecca Black an "artist"? Or just some stupid twit with a song that's infecting the ears of our youth and watering down what is true "music"

Just because I think it sucks, I wouldn't prevent anyone else from listening to it.

You can't have "good music" if there's no "bad music" to compare it to.



What I think sucks may make you happy...art is personal.

I personally think that shit looks like fucking graffiti...but I'm a 50 year old fucking white guy.