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Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, is Houston’s premier venue for open and ongoing engagement with today's vibrant, ever-changing visual art. As a contemporary art museum, it embraces experimentation and creative acts of daring, originality, and vision, and promotes a spirit of investigation and discovery.
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- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
4 comments:
This test is testy.
The real question, to me, is what is GOOD art, since Marcel Duchanp pretty much covered the big picture for us almost a century ago.
And what is a little more interesting than deciding if something is good or bad, is to understand what the motivations are behind making art and what the consequences of art can be.
Why should we spend our time looking at art? We could be getting the car washed or surfing the net?
Because art can change your life and blow your mind wide open. And personally, I think our minds could use a little more to chew on, could use a few more questions, and a few less answers.
And you?
Art immerses the viewer into its world. I would argue that good or bad art creates a unique and personal experience in the thoughts and emotions it evokes in the viewer. When a sculpture or painting captures you to the point of walking around while taking in every crevice and shadow for hours. The first photos I saw of Amy Stillmans paintings captured me with her shapes and colors. The form drew me in and I wanted to see more. I wanted to explore her abstract ideas and expressions.
I agree with Ms. Veneman that more thought provoking questions and analysis are good for the mind versus the answers always being thrown our way. Art would not be were it is today without this exploration. When struggling for words get out a pencil. Explore the blank paper. It is amazing what develops in the space.
Like with anything...there is "good" and there is "bad". Or maybe not because at the end of the day everything is subjective and so we'll never be able to agree 100%.
"Good" art to me though, is a art that was created because of a God given gift and therefore cannot be shared by everyone. I think everyone can be creative, but not everyone can be an artist.
To be "good" at anything it takes:
A bit of raw talent
Discipline
Hard Work
Focus...
and Time
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