The Modern Art Idiocy, page 53

reply to post by ArMaP

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Nothing to show, as I didn't make any claims about my abilities.

And yet you judged this little girls paintings as corny ?
I guess the religious connotations were just to much for you ?
IDK never heard that one before. But I won't hound you about it any further.
It's your opinion. So that's cool.

Originally posted by randyvs
I guess the religious connotations were just to much for you ?

You do know that historically, the greatest part of all art is religious in nature, don't you? It's hardly an abnormal theme in just about any artistic venture you care to name... music, sculpture, painting, etc.

Of course, today there might be a bit more to the arts than the worlds religions, but it still weaves a thread through pretty much everything and an interested person should really look at what is different today from those paintings done in caves by early humans. That the paintings at Lascaux, done 40,000 years ago, were related to their religion is unquestionable. They didn't do them just 'for the fun of it'.

reply to post by masqua

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Not sure what you mean by the greatest part really masqua. I really love Picasso.
But then there's the Sistine Chapel and The Last Supper. Explain if you will ?

reply to post by Skyfloating

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Too much fun. You know...Pablo Picasso created his cubism to mock the rich and elite. He knew these people would over analyze and over speculate the meaning of his work. His work was a major middle finger to critics of his time. Good his works were, but he got the last laugh. That's why I love Picasso! Bwahahaha.

Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by masqua

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Not sure what you mean by the greatest part really masqua. I really love Picasso.
But then there's the Sistine Chapel and The Last Supper. Explain if you will ?

You mention Picasso, an avowed 'Catholic atheist', as if he never approached religion in his works, which kind of makes my point:

This is the first critical examination of Pablo Picasso’s use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed atheist, his work employs themes of spirituality—and, often, traditional religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible chapters, the authors address Picasso’s cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion; the artist’s early life in the catholic church, trained as a religious painter; elements of transcendence in Guernica; Picasso’s fraught relationship with the church, including a commission to paint murals for the War and Peace Chapel in France in the 1950s; and the centrality of religious themes and imagery in bullfights, subject of countless Picasso drawings and paintings.
www.ucpress.edu...

The fact is, his art exuded religious themes.

When confronted with the art of any era, from those works still existing from more than 40 thousand years ago, all through the pagan pre-Christian artworks on every continent and then on to the much more recent religious works of Islam, Buddhism and Christianity, you would find it difficult NOT to find religious overtones in artwork.

reply to post by masqua

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I did know of Picasso's atheism and admit to never actually seeing, any religious work by him. But even so I would never assume there weren't any. I referenced him, only because he was the only one I knew for sure, was atheist.
But I think I see what you're getting at just the same, thru my sometimes far to dense understanding.
ARmap's opinion isn't based on the girls religious concepts they 're just corny ?

I looked at that girl's gallery (here) and I like her first paintings, specially the ones from when she was 6.

Now I think that when she was 6 she was a prodigy, but it looks like there was some kind of influence (probably a materialistic influence...) that made her change her style to a photo-like, corny (like those paintings of babies crying that some people love) style instead of her natural style.

I hope she returns to her original style, with all that she has learned these years I suppose she can be a great artist.

Edited to add that, looking at the other paintings, I think that we can see the two distinct sides of her work; the natural, that she still makes, and the one I called "corny" and that looks forced to a photo-like style that probably sells more.

reply to post by ArMaP

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Alright then, I really appreciate you taking the time to
explain where you were coming from ArMaP . I even
might actually agree with a few points. Thank you.

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