Your Art

First of all an apology to ALL of my readers :). I have taken the spotlight yesterday by posting MY ART before I even considered that firstly I had to say something about YOUR ART. Hope this addition to the blog will make up for that. I am not an artist and I bet you are not either but we are both interested in art. We are the art lovers. We are the public the artist wants to please. Let's be honest, an artist is just a business man trying to sell his stuff. He needs to make sure that a market exists for the work he produces. Whether he sells his stuff to you or me is of no interest to the business man AS LONG AS HE SELLS. We know from our experience that salesmen will go to great lengths to sell what he has to offer. As an analogy this should also be true for artists. However for some reason there is a catch. Unlike shop owners, (internet)marketeers, everyone selling anything, artists use a cunning way of selling. They need to be popular in order to get rid (!) of their products. Every artists, be it a painter, sculptor, musician etc. needs advertising channels. Not often these channels at first consist of art/music etc. critics. If a critics says or writes favorable stuff about the art, chances are the artist will sell. Unlike everyday shopping articles (also advertised and criticized) artists and their critics make a joint effort to sell based not on what you and I like, but what they like. They really explore every possibility to let you and me believe that the artists' product is the best art can offer (just read my previous posts on an artwork composed of shit). The task of the artist would be to make things that are, at least, acceptable. From there the question whether it is beautiful, worthwhile, buyable etc. is in the hands of the public, YES: you and me. You decide on what you like, you think beautiful, you would like to own. You and me, we art lovers, we tell the artist about his product. It is not up to the artist nor up to the critics to tell us what to think. Thought this kind op practice died, apart from a very few countries around this world, some 20 years ago when east and west got to know eachother a little better.Well enough said about this issue in the past blog material. On to the things that are reallyu important. Yesterdag I showed you som pieces of artwork I like. These were two dimensional.Today I would like to show you this sculpture.

It is simply sold over the Internet at a  price of $ 150.00 It is called: Contemporary Modern Abstract Art Wall sculpture w/mirrors by A.Tarpley and can be ordered multple times. Because of the production (handpainted) copies may vary a little from each other. Too bad this is not a unique piece but at least I do think it very nice. For sale at http://www.artfire.com. Although I have told you I kind of like this wallsculpture, the real question is if you like it. Is this your "cup-of-tea". Do help me in order to find out what this blog addition is about and tell me what YOUR ART is. Tell me what you like and I will try and get it in this blog in the following weeks.

Coming up soon: A Special Issue About the Discrepancy between Museums buying Art, and   Art Buyers!!!!!!!

My Art

You might have noticed I am not a very regular Blogger. This has to do with the way I see and feel art and the fact that I do not think everyone needs to know all the time what I am thinking about art. Once in a while I really get the urge to share my thoughts with someone, anyone. If this point has been reached I will publish a new addition to the blog. Yesterday I told you about my aversion against critics and artists fooling us. I also promised you I'd like to mention a few pieces of art work I really appreciate.
Let me begin by telling you that I simply adore bright colors. Of course I realize not everyone will be into the same aesthetic sense. I also know (see my previous posts in this blog) that we all have our own taste. But solemnly swear you hate piles of shit (although I think there are a few shit lovers out there but that has nothing to do with art).

I have just been disturbed during the wrting of this blog by some news about the artist +David Hockney. As a result I stopped writing to browse the Internet for examples of his works. I'd like to saÿ: "To my surprise I saw some fine examples of his art". But that would be a blatant lie. As always and with most artists I do like his work, but not all of it. Some pieces are really great while others cannot pass my judgement. Do not forget that I am NOT an art critic but an art lover. This doesn't mean that I love everything with an art-label. I judge from my feeling toward what I see.

So by sheer chance it is Hockney that can carry away my approval. What else would be nice enough to mention. In my previous post I told you about the soup. Well I would say that +Andy Warhol too made some pretty nice pieces of art. I hate the cans but really love the Marylin portraits. It goes without saying that the two examples I have given so far are just chosen at random. Warhol and Hockney alike have made more beautiful things than I will be able to show. But they also made some very (yes remember my eyes) ugly pieces of art (or is it art).

Next to the pictures I have placed between my text I can sum up numerous works of art that are worth while. Just a stroll over the Internet will open up new worlds of art, even for me. One of these strolls led me to some website showing this artwork by +Chaya Kupperman. I do not go into the details of this artist because first of all I do not know anything about her and second I do not care. What I do care about the fact that the work (shown here) is very nice to look at. It can put millions of thoughts into your (my) brain. This is exactly what I am on about for the past weeks or month. It is not the critic or the artist calling the shots, it is the spectator who makes a painting or sculpture or wahtever has been wrought by the artists to be art in his or her eye. 

Last but certainly not least I would like to share the latest addition to our site with you. The relatively unkown painter Dirk Sta van Uiter has made some pretty amazing stuff. Please feel free to look at his artworks on our site: www.-artgallery-amsterdam.com. To the left is an example of his colorful work. On mentioned site you will find more works of art that might interest you. Like I have told you time and again, you will be the judge of these artworks. In order to judge however you will have to look at the works/paintings/sketches/sculptures etc. Even I had to look at a huge pile of shit in a museum to judge it not to be art. Thusfar, by the way, I have had no comments nor has anyone volunteered to offer som explanations to me (see previous blog). I still keep the invitation open so if anywhere out there someone is willing to teach me about the meaning of shit and other ugly things in art, I am open to it.

So far I have only been talking about two dimensional art forms. I intend to write about three dimensional art soon. I will not write about video art because it is completely lost on me.

Your Art or Mine?

We all know comments on art like: "This could have been produced by my little brother/nephew", or "This is truely rubbish", and "How can he/she call him(her)self an ARTIST". This has all to do with the obvious contradiction between modern art as opposed to more traditional art. The other day I visited the "Van Abbemuseum" in Eindhoven in the South part of the Netherlands. What I saw actually scared me. All the serious comments on art pieces shown in this museum do give me the idea that just a few people famous for their knowlegde of art, the real pro's, the art-critics, are pulling the legs of the spectators. Most of the audience looks at the "works of art", read what has been said by mentioned art-critics and begin conversations amongst each other repeating the words of these critics, thus celebrating this "art". Even a pile of shit (this really is no joke) is considered a fine work of art. Well I have got news: I produce an artwork a day in the smallest room of the house!!!

I do plea with everyone for a more realistic view on art.

PLEASE DO READ MY WORDS THE WAY THEY ARE MEANT: I am not opposed to modern art (in my next blog I will mention some modern works I really like). But let it be art, let it be a blessing to look at and do not let the so called artists and their so called critics get away with making shit or rubbish be placed in our (costly) museums. Don't let artists and critics alike fool you with the figments of their twisted imaginations. As I am well underway with writing my frustrations away, I would like to invite anyone to help me understand why the pile of shit or a stack of demolition wood is considered ART. While we are on the subject, please do also help me to see why a floor of peanutbutter, measuring 4 x 14 yards would have to be considered art. Another example of this fine art, take a pallet, put two gardenchair next to each other on this pallet and throw a bucket full of paint or tar over these chairs. Leave it as it is to dry and "A-La" a new piece of art has been conceived. Now we show the "art" to the "critics" and when all is said and done some poor sod will buy this briljant piece of........CRAP (maybe even with our tax-money).
I do believe this has all been instigated way back in the fifties and sixties of the past century. As an illustration we can look in the supermarkets of those days and take a look at can of soup. No one in his right mind would consider this art. One day however someone bored right our of his skull drew up a can of soup on a piece of paper and everyone (after having read what the proper "art" authorities thought about this) just loved this piece of art. After having lived with the lies about art for so long, no one dares to go back in their opinion about these so called artworks. As a vast amount of money has been invested in this so called art, is feels almost a necessity to maintain the status quo on art. AGAIN, please do understand that the soup artist has also produced really nice things, no question about that. But it is time we learn to shift true art and crap. It happened before that things that were once valued highly can now only be seen in junk yards, garage sales etc. Let's return shit to where it belongs and remove it from our museums. We can use the freed up space for things we really value. Can't be too hard.
No illustrations this time for fear I get in trouble for misusing copyrights (HA HA).