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(one walk in NYC and I am back to blog diaherra..LOL)
One of the things I saw in the city yesterday was this refugee from a county fair light fountain thing in front of Rockefeller Ctr
Anyone that has ever seen pictures of NY at Christmas, this is sitting on the spot where the tree is.
It is there for a month or so and I am sure is more impressive at night, but again is it art? It looked to me to be more the middle of some ride at a fair that is set up in a firehouse parking lot...just they forgot the ride!
I sort of got THE GATES a few years ago when they were in Central Park. The scope of them when you stood back was sort of intresting and made scene that was intriguing.
A few years ago I went to The Museum of Modern Art in NYC and found that the closer I got to the present, as the museum is roughly set up so that the further you go the more recent the art, the less I got the stuff as art.
Picasso, Van Gough, that time period I got. Did it all speak deeply to my soul? No. But some did, alot did. And it was art, there is no question that while a certain painting or bronze statue or drawingmay not be your speed, it is art.
I even sort of kind of maybe get Warhol. Not my taste, but I guess it is art in a sense. I though always thought that he was seen as a great artist more because of his personna then his art. make him less of a oddball and I think he is not as iconic as he is.
But when you put a stool next to a bike tire and can of olice oil and say that is art, there you lose me!
And am I some great art critic? Nope
Do I think that my taste is perfect? Nope. Listen I like Leroy Neiman stuff and that is looked down on. I also know that there is a piece I want to have made by a repected western US painter that KP has already said she thinks is a piece of garbage that will not be in any home we own...well actually I get to keep it in my den under a sheet I think....
anyway
All I am saying is that not everything is art
So lets maybe not call everything art.
Had someone said this light fountain was just that, and it was there as nothing more than something to look at and say "ohhhhhh, ahhhhh, nice" I can go with that.
Frankly I was more excited when they borrowed THE THINKER by Rodin and had that in Rockefeller Center one summer a few years back.
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Posted by whiteknight on 2008-03-19 12:38:07 | Rating: | Views: 59
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wow Rockerfeller center,one day i will see it,, sometimes i dont even know its art, a blobb of something, i like the old greek artist, the statuese,collums,, nice blog, thanks
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Posted by bjm1
on 2008-03-19 12:46:26
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Which western artist? Arizonans for many years we have collected some beautiful things. Love,love,love my west.
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Posted by circe
on 2008-03-20 18:38:11
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