mockeries, or: what ain't art?

[FreeLance]

A parody of <b><i>La trahison des images</i></b> (Magritte) and <b><i>Skrik</i></b> (Munch).

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e390/flusht/the-high-seas-echo.jpg

[Fawriel]

Cool. =o

[MoonBlazE]

An explanation to the part that makes sense would be appriciated.

[Anaiyu]

Cool Thread......

[Stijn]

An explanation to the part that makes sense would be appriciated.

http://www.luc.edu/depts/history/dennis/Visual_Arts/10-Express_Munch_The-Scream.jpg + http://cours.funoc.be/essentiel/article/img151/magritte.jpg

[FreeLance]

An explanation to the part that makes sense would be appriciated.

See Stijn's post.

For my own personal explanation..
I wanted to do some sort of parody of the concept of "This is not a pipe" - while the concept is a grand one, it also wreaks to me of the pompous nature of Art. I originally just drew a cigarette - but it didn't matter, anything that really was not a pipe would have worked. I decided then to go even further from a pipe, and how better than to crudely draw a rough, crappy version of another classic piece of Art?

[ShadeJackrabbit]

Interesting... the guy looks like he's shouting the caption out. Wouldn't that be weird in a crowd?

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/4255/nopipesy4.jpg

[FreeLance]

roflmaol

i'm honored.

[ShadeJackrabbit]

Did in paint in about 2 minutes. (If you don't count web searching time.)

[Fawriel]

Let's make it an internet meme! \o/

[DoubleGJ]

*reposts the image fifty times*

[Xobim]

Ahem...
<img src=http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Dave/comicsceam1.png>

[FreeLance]

EXCEPT that the subject was likely the ARTIST so that comic makes NO SENSE

(yes, I know, it's a joke - i'm FURTHER MOCKING ARTISTES)

[Radium]

FURTHER MOCKING Wow, misread that. Was that intentional?

Anyway, I wanted to respond to Zapper's post with "It depends on the context." and have a picture of the cops busting into the house of a man doing drugs who is saying "this ain't no pipe!", but couldn't find a suiting picture.

[FreeLance]

heh. It wasn't intentional, but my mind keeps further mocking it up if you follow the fun duck.

[ShadeJackrabbit]

Anyway, I wanted to respond to Zapper's post with "It depends on the context." and have a picture of the cops busting into the house of a man doing drugs who is saying "this ain't no pipe!", but couldn't find a suiting picture.

Checked screenshots for shows like CSI or Law and Order? I seem to remember something recent with drugs on one of those shows...

[Erik]

more like "This ain't no sugar"

[FreeLance]

except pipe.

[ShadeJackrabbit]

Pipe with sugar.

[Doubble Dutch]

Art is fine, but it does gather more than it's fair share of pretentious blowhards.

[FreeLance]

I love art - I am very much an artist, it's basically what I live for. I just find the art world entirely full of self-made 'genius' types and those who help make them thusly.

[Stijn]

Then are you an art lover, an artist, or both? Because, with all due respect, the picture in the opening post is not what I'd see as "art" :)

[DoubleGJ]

Art is a very flexible term.

[Stijn]

Oh yes, it is. In my opinion what mostly defines art is whether something was made with the intention of being art. And the Ceci n'est pas un scream doesn't look like that to me ;)

[FreeLance]

Oh yes, it is. In my opinion what mostly defines art is whether something was made with the intention of being art. And the Ceci n'est pas un scream doesn't look like that to me ;)

The picture in the OP is, I feel, a mixture of disdain and mockery (hence the titles), but also in being so a piece of art itself (as I made it with such an intention). I love art, but I disregard much of it and also have a distaste for much of it - the piece I posted was meant to represent certain parts of my disdain for art, and as such at the same time became a piece of art itself further making my point and being despicable to me. :)

One thing you must keep in mind is that when I make art, I make photography - when I use drawing or painting as a medium, it is when I am making 'punk' art or statements meant to mock art itself (or pop concepts, like my drawing I could never post here of a twisted 'domo-kun' with a large bizarre (-) and two breasts [titled, aptly, domo-(censored-sounds-like-kun)]).

I do not make fine art, but I make art.

[Fawriel]

"La trahison des images" isn't much more than a statement, either. On the other hand, a statement can be a lot.

Now Skrik is just awesome.

[FreeLance]

la trahison des images is an awesome piece of artwork, and i am particularly fond of its meaning and the concepts it deals with - however, at the same time it is also a prime example of how artists are made by other artists and art is accepted only by those who also create it and as such one can do something as simple as paint a picture of a pipe and declare it not a pipe to be considered 'art.'
(of course, the declaration is that it is actually a painting of a pipe, and to call it a pipe would be a lie - or possibly that the sentence itself is not a pipe, but rather a sentence, or some other variant of that concept)

It was for that reason I chose to use it in my mockery. It was primed, and ready.

[Fawriel]

Kaykay, then I guess I misunderstood.
Also, this discussion SO does not match with the caps. =D