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Re: Giacometti sculpture fetches £65 million at Sotheby's auction
Crikey, open your minds people. Good art teaches you a new way of looking at things. If there was no Piet Mondrian and his theories of colour and compasition then there would have been no Mirrors Edge, one of the most striking games to come out recently (not much fun but that's another thread!). That Giacometti sculpture… -
Re: Giacometti sculpture fetches £65 million at Sotheby's auction
pior: i agree with you. there are different aspects of it. yeah you have the example you gave, but that's just one end of the spectrum, and unfortunately is the staple to which cg art is attached to. there's the good and there is the bad... but i see where you're coming from. put a stan winston costume next to this, and… -
Re: Giacometti sculpture fetches £65 million at Sotheby's auction
It's a matter of taste, there are pieces of art that are considered to be great art amongst nearly everyone who sees them, even though I detest having to follow the herd I detest lying to myself even more. As you can tell I feel very strongly about this so maybe an example is in order... Classical sculpture... Contemporary… -
Re: Giacometti sculpture fetches £65 million at Sotheby's auction
The thing I dislike about modern art is also the same thing I love about it...freedom from constraints. In many cases I do think it can allow some artists to sell an idea without much substance because so much of it is subjective. However it can also give the viewer more connection to a piece because in some form they… -
Re: Giacometti sculpture fetches £65 million at Sotheby's auction
Well i guess taste vary. Just imagine l'homme qui marche 'rendered' the same way as those two examples you posted. You would get heavy whipped cream baroque cloth folds trying to flow in the wind, some twisted, overly smoothed arm pointing forward,, a spine curving in 3 different directions, and so on. Something quite…
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