A collection of paintings by famous artists. Nickel Creek- This Side
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Not bad, but too short which of course leads to a lot of very good painter’s master pieces not being here. Song is okay.
i liked Leonardo de Venci
nice&good
nice and good
song does not go with the video. Why why why? lol
i am an artist. so if you like art you should check out my video.
Terrible song. Sorry but that was horrible.
song choise sucks
that good
damien hirst
Wouldn’t the same logic have to hold true for the art form of music? What’s the explanation for the lack of quality artists (subjective, I know, but when the only person who seems to be putting any thought into anything in popular music is a girl who watched the movie Party Monster one to many times…there’s a problem) who are famous in the privately run music world? I suppose you can blame that on file sharing.
thats ridiculous. just because they do a showtime show and vegas gigs doesn’t make them radical zionist. thats like saying because matt groening makes the simpsons and there for is a republican and can never say anything bad about bush jr because they are paid by box i mean fox network.
It’s so crazy the amount of influential people Penn has known through the years.
I was saying that you and penn were arguing over the definition of “good”.
He defined good as art which impacted people. Art which you don’t see can’t impact you. You didn’t provide a def, but perhaps it was something along the lines of “well drawn”.
Theoretically I suppose the NEA could generate mass interest, but in reality it does not. After I saw this video I looked up the Dali playboy pics and also looked at some of his art. I cannot even name a NEA artist.
A) I never said what makes a good artist.
B) I was pointing out that Penn gives no qualitative difference between begging from playboy and begging from the NEA. If begging from the NEA makes one a “bad” artist, why does begging from playboy make one a “good” artist?
One can generate interest in one’s art by getting grants and applying to exhibitions, so your argument fails as well. It also does not follow that just because there is interest in one’s art, that art is “good”, cf. Thomas Kinkade.
You might be getting a little overzealous here dude.
First of all… you and penn are only disagreeing on what makes a “good” artist. He says a good artist is one that people have heard of, and one that generates interest in their own art. You don’t really define “good”.
Really art is only important in respect to what viewers think about it… and if no one sees/cares about your painting, then are you really a “good” artist?
Penn may not be Kant here, but he makes a good argument.
Penn & Teller could easily be classified as performance artists, but instead of going for grants, got their big bucks Viacom TV contract and Vegas gig after hooking up with the Cato Institute corporate propaganda mill. Viacom is owned by radical Zionist Sumner Redstone, so even tho Penn describes himself as a militant atheist and libertarian, he cannot ever criticize Israel’s apartheid/genocide of the Palestinians nor the billions in US welfare payments funding it.
Your logic is horrible. Here is a list of faults: You fail to show how famous artists equal good artists and unfamous artists equal bad artists, you fail to show how the NEA itself leads to a lack of famous contemporary artists (perhaps other cultural/business factors are at fault), you fail to show how grantwriting, etc makes bad artists, and how is begging from playboy better than from the NEA? (unless you are building in libertarian assumptions which is, so to speak, logical BULLSHIT!)
Penn, I’m new to computer, I’m 56, and I wonder if you actually know any “poor” people. I was a “prodigy artist” when I was a kid, I didn’t really enjoy drawing that much, I just happened to be good at it. Anyway, I have witnessed “art” (a meaningless word) in all of it’s forms, music, writing, etc. made by people incapable of paying rent or even panhandling. Their “work” made “professional” (socially acceptable) art look quite mundane in comparison. Insane and homeless “artists” – check it out
To be an artist rather than a hobbyist you must hone you talent enough to inspire others to offer funds to see/own your works. It is not art to fill out a form, and it is theft to force people to pay for your hobby. Even if you call yourself an artist.
any artist that is selling there shit to the church of money is not an artist make your art first and then sell it… if it don’t sell oh well at least you made it.
Without the NEA all the funding left for artists comes from Zionist mainstream media corporations, who employ them to further their propaganda agendas.
So sayeth the mainstream media Zionist errand boy mediocrity.
Sod it artists are artists. They don’t have to answer to us or please us or make like their work. Even if they are publicly funded then there is even more reason they shouldn’t worry what “we” think.
Money goes towards art in public funding to support the arts and if one person takes a lot then only OTHER artists miss out on producing something large and expensive. It all goes towards one end you can judge it on it effectiveness as just by being created its fulfilled its purpose.
Hey I’m a wannabe too.
A woman goes to grade schools six times and does one hour of “American Heritage” dance = $30,000.
Two men get a video on Arab culture from their library, get a public space, put up chairs, and broadcast it for two days = $50,000.
These are examples of the grant money being wasted.
The grants also go to LA Phil and similar orgs. I’m sure others are good.
Good art isn’t typically commercially viable, Penn. Maybe these artists should get “real jobs,” something hard for working folks.
It’s all about the money baby, all about the money.
It is agreeable that artists and art should have more publicity however, it seems unpleasant that artists should have market pressures inflicted upon them just so that the public may be more well-informed about the arts. No man asks for “pressure.” If the public cannot see the value of the arts, then the public does not deserve to know about art and the great artists of its time. An artist should have to create his product, not turn himself into one.
Artists throughout history have had to seek patronage of one form or another. Why is it only the NEA is to blame for bad art? Madonna makes bad art and the public was her funded her. Some of Penn’s arguments take on strange dimensions so that he can jive it with his GOVERNMENT BAD philosophy.
Elitist Pricks, the tasty treat that can’t be beat. I know that a cartoonist falls under the category of “artist,” but that’s so damn broad. An archetect could call himself an artist but he doesn’t, because he’s proud of his title. If you’re not proud enough of your lowly title as a cartoonist, then try being an artist instead. Then you will be included in Penn’s discussion about Artist’s who are never able to reach greatness.
I like to think My Art speaks for it self :)
@ Penn let me know what you think :)
Ok but also every thing man made you see around you, was made by some artist. Many of revolutionary artists were basicly broke Van Gogh for instance. I would be glad to pay to help poor artists than paying my money for drug war or alcoholic treatment like I must do in my country.
Well there is always the KLF to lead the way back to the common folk, since the art snobblers
find them less than willing to buy into the scheme.
alright, alright. i’m graduating and being thrust out into the world in about two weeks, so can someone dumb the situation down for me. maby give me both sides of sphere. pardon my ignorance!