Re: *nods soberly*

posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 04:55pm on 28/10/2002
Dali's paintings are normally "a bit much". Surrealism has it's limits, and Dali managed to push them beyond their "proper" bounds, if Surrealism can have bounds.

This one, however, was painted after Dali rediscovered catholicism :)
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Re: *nods soberly*

posted by [identity profile] msfledermaus.livejournal.com at 05:18pm on 28/10/2002
I remember hearing that:)

I tend to prefer the Mexican painters of the time period--the ex-patriates like Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, and Frida Khalo, and I'm fond of Max Ernst's work and Leonor Fini and Kay Sage. I never cared for Breton, and I'm only so-so on Man Ray since I found out his assitant for most of his work never got any credit for her work...I do like Dali, but it depends on the painting, I think...


beware, beware, this is what a bunch of Art History classes can do to you:)

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Re: *nods soberly*

posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 05:25pm on 28/10/2002
Hey, calm down with all this namedropping - I only watched one art program *G*

Though you hit on something important to me - "it depends on the painting".... big factor. I've not come across any artist in any field that I've liked everything that they have ever done.
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posted by [identity profile] stormy-brow.livejournal.com at 06:22pm on 28/10/2002
I've not come across any artist in any field that I've liked everything that they have ever done.

Nor should you, in my opinion. I mean, what person would honestly believe anyone that liked every single piece that they did? What would the purpose be of reinventing one's self?

I think a lot of art intellectuals get too hung up in analyzing and discussing everything that an artist ever did, all their notes, their doodles, the pattern that they left when they pissed on the ground...

Don't get me wrong, though. I think the study of art in all it's forms is important. It's just that sometimes a piece doesn't mean</> anything. Sometimes someone just did something cos they felt like it, or they were experimenting, or they liked a particular color one day.

But I'm rambling.
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Re: *nods soberly*

posted by [identity profile] msfledermaus.livejournal.com at 07:15pm on 28/10/2002


Yes, I definitely agree. Artists are like everyone else, they have off days, or paintings that appeal to one person and not to another...

(I know I've had my off days, and the end results....eeew....not nice:) Most of these guys were extremely prolific, so they had more chances to fuck up. *grins back*
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