What does the Arts mean to you?

• the Bear

  5 Jun 06, 11:00

  well, this came out of a few observations in the day box.. where scho-cat observed something...
  
  that the arts may allow the people to see beauty in the mundane...
  
  and i agree... there is more to life than just adding speed to it.. sometimes, we rush past the things that give life meaning...
  
  what do you think?
  
  with that, i'm going to post some wonderful pictures.. paintings.. those which i enjoy most
  
  
• RaTtY8l

  5 Jun 06, 11:01

  something which i always fail in sec school
• the Bear

  5 Jun 06, 11:03

  Norman Rockwell was able to make the mundane wonderful
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  aren't these little pictures wonderful?
  
  everyday mundane things which... speak volumes... the girl who is pleased with herself for getting into a fight even if it meant a black eye and a trip to the principal's office
  
  puppy love...
  
  and a runaway being talked to at a soda fountain by an officer..
  
  wonderful pictures
• elindra

  5 Jun 06, 11:04

  Something that connects to your emotions and soul
  
  That is why some art is crap to some and gold to others
• the Bear

  5 Jun 06, 11:11

  not only that.. it allows people to express ideas in the most powerful form...
  
  again, Norman Rockwell..
  
  The Four Freedoms...
  
  
  Freedom From Fear
  
  
  Freedom Of Speech
  
  
  Freedom From Want
  
  
  Freedom To Worship
  
  the four freedoms which should be the birthright of all humans.. to be translated into 4 powerful images..
• Ito_^

  5 Jun 06, 11:15

  money.
• the Bear

  5 Jun 06, 11:17

  i guess.. i guess it's an overwhelming need and want of some.. but i would always think that there is more to life than numbers in a bank account
  
  

  Originally posted by Ito_^:

  money.

• kopiosatu

  5 Jun 06, 11:20

  creativity and art... is photography, cartoons to me. if i had continued to draw like i did as a kid, i might be an illustrator now.
  
  i can't appreciate paintings.
• NewAge

  5 Jun 06, 11:22

  Something a 4 yr old indulge her/himself in.
  
  A teenager enjoys reading manga or loathing it for its the only sub they fail.
  
  An affluent adult uses it to decorate their homes.
  
  For artist: a way to become rich and famous most often after they die.
• laurence82

  5 Jun 06, 11:23

  maybe its me
  
  but i prefer landscape painting or photos
  
  architecture..and yes architecture is an art
  
  and some abstract ones
• jetta

  5 Jun 06, 23:03

  Ah Bear, how did you know my son just completed a project on Norman Rockwell? *looking around for spycam*
• hisoka

  5 Jun 06, 23:11

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  Norman Rockwell was able to make the mundane wonderful
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  aren't these little pictures wonderful?
  
  everyday mundane things which... speak volumes... the girl who is pleased with herself for getting into a fight even if it meant a black eye and a trip to the principal's office
  
  puppy love...
  
  and a runaway being talked to at a soda fountain by an officer..
  
  wonderful pictures

  pardon me for saying this but the girl looks devilish or possessed rather than happy
• grandeur

  5 Jun 06, 23:22

  “All art is but imitation of nature.” quoted by roman philosopher.
• stellazio

  6 Jun 06, 01:58

  a subject that i only managed to pass after altering my homework score in the teacher's list..
  
  the art of cheating..
• DriftingGuy

  6 Jun 06, 02:00

  Originally posted by hisoka:

  pardon me for saying this but the girl looks devilish or possessed rather than happy

  For a while I was thinking of chucky's bride
• ShrodingersCat

  6 Jun 06, 08:32

  One particularly naughty sec 1 kid handed up a drawing of a bunch of circles with stripes drawn across them diagonally and coloured them multi colour. It was so .... EASY to draw that for effort he would have failed. However, as part of the regular session, I usually called a few from the class up and ask them what and why they did what they did so they can explain their perspective.
  
  So I called him up and asked him "so would you like to tell me more about what you drew?"
  
  He looked at me like I am asking the obvious. "I'm drawing bubbles."
  
  Hmm. I was thinking if he was trying to act smart or giving some silly excuses for the circles. So I continued asking...
  
  "How about these lines over here and the colours you chose? Would u like to tell me about them?"
  
  And to my surprise (and shame for pre judging him), he said "Err.. you know teacher, when the light shine on the bubbles, there is a lot of colours shining shining. Yaa.. so I trying to draw that."
  
  What is art? Maybe I would say an artist defines art - how? He is able to look at something - an incident/an environment/an object - and look at it with an intensity that is unique to him. His perspective - whether he can introduce something special for somethign mundane, whether he can translate something complex into something tangible - and his ability to share that perspective with people is his method and skill to create art.
  
  That is why I think art is impt in people's lives. Not KNOWLEDGE of great artists or great paintings or even the ability to create these - but to cultivate the ability to respond to life. Which is why great scientists, great architects, great inventors - and even great businessmen - become artists in their own right.
  
  And for the rest of us, who may be less talented, a little bit of the rainbow rubs off us when someone shares with us that that pespective that multicoloured circles can be so much more than our litte minds think.
  
• av98m

  6 Jun 06, 09:34

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  a subject that i only managed to pass after altering my homework score in the teacher's list..
  
  the art of cheating..

  
  
  *whips the si gina*
• av98m

  6 Jun 06, 09:37

  I can't create art to save my life, but I enjoy the ouput from those more talented than myself.
  
  One of my favourite photographers, Diane Arbus, had the uncanny ability to bring out the evil/freakish side of her subjects. Her photographs of children make them look evil!
• princessdiana

  6 Jun 06, 10:06

  Good to see, fun to learn but cannot make money out of it until you are history.
• alexkusu

  6 Jun 06, 10:07

  I think if you cant appreciate art, your life isnt that meaningful
• SBS9828X

  6 Jun 06, 10:09

  music counteD?
• DriftingGuy

  6 Jun 06, 11:38

  
  Why do so many artists become famous only after they have died? Its like people only start to appreciate only when they are gone and no longer creating
• the Bear

  6 Jun 06, 11:57

  i would not know but hey.. where are you now and look at the art of Norman Rockwell
  
  he has been accused of painting a "utopian" and way too clean cut view of American life.. it may be like that in his time and it is a wonderful time then to be an American...
  
  however, he did not live his life looking through rose-tinted glasses... his works chronical the times like this painting:
  
  
  The Problem We All Live With
  
  the changing of the roles of women in:
  
  
  Rosie the Riveter
  
  his stand against racism and for understanding:
  
  
  
  he is an American icon of the arts and it is little wonder he is studied over there.. and rightly so
  
  

  Originally posted by jetta:

  Ah Bear, how did you know my son just completed a project on Norman Rockwell? *looking around for spycam*

• dragg

  6 Jun 06, 12:04

  Always
  Remember
  To
  Sleep
• ShrodingersCat

  7 Jun 06, 17:13

  I like bright colourful pictures. Doesn't need meaning or watever. Sarina Baker
  
  
  Fruits look good enugh to eat man! I'd love to have this hanging in my kitchen