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Oh it's nothing like A Clockwork Orange. It's an old movie, that is creepy but not A Clockwork Orange creepy. I think the movie may be aimed at children. It was based off of an old show my mum watched as a child in Scotland. I saw it this year when it came on television.

Thank you for understanding art.

Thank you for taking the time to read my ramblings.

You know I can't, but the Greeks probably came the closest.

It's sad when people are actually taken into the ploy and think that postmodern art is completely serious. The critics and art theorists are being sincere most of the time, but the other bit is spent mocking, stealing from past art and recycling it as something "new." Then they hide their little joke on society under the fascade of professionalism and their academic credentials.

The "art world" has become a group wanting to be isolated, so they have something to justify some of the most outrageous things. You can spot them, because artistic expression, though subjective, is also universal. People need to be able to see what you want them to, otherwise it's been a waste of time for both parties.

I mean I love art, what it stands for and could go on forever and a day, but I try to be as pragmatic as I can about analysis. I have to see and believe what I'm talking about, otherwise I'd just be another pawn wagging the art theory dog. I PMed -Tak- when he told me that my criticism "made" the drawing into art. Art is art, and should be whether or not there is a theory to back it all up. It seems as though everyone is so absorbed with justifying it all, they forget that without art there is no art theory, not the other way around.

And by the way, I'm just as much an amateur. wink

That's the great part about it, we don't always know what we've put into it. Even when you "just do it" people can see things that we might not want to admit or don't even see ourselves.

For example, I was just drawing yet another nude guy in class, just like any other assignment and someone looks over my shoulder and says that the face I drew on him looked awfully like my own. It was hardly the power of suggestion either, because even though he took his glasses off I'd drawn them in and his hair had a suspicious wave that wasn't suppose to be there.

Sure, we often justify things later, saying we "did it on purpose," but the fact is we're still young and it's practice. It's all art for art's sake, in the end. When it comes time to do what it has all been leading up to, we can borrow from accidents, blunders and all the different work we've done to make something new and mean everything we've placed into it, carefully planned or otherwise. That's why I want people to watch, take the time to appreciate things like Leonardo's strangely smooth faces, or Michaelangelo's bulky figures, down to Rodin's The Thinker's clenched toes (didn't notice that one, did you?). It takes whole lifetimes to learn how to do it and do it well, and we're still learning.

Wow, this is the most passionate I've been about anything in a long time. ...And the art student doubts fly out the window.

I agree. Sadly, most people don't. I think it was an Andy Warhol print that I saw in class that made the joke quite clear. It was a really crappy silkscreening of American money on paper, that probably sold for hundreds of thousands. What did they really get for it? They could launder bills for less probably, and in the end it's still fake money.

*Note: I'm not promoting fraud or forging of money, it's only an example.

it looks unhappy. i believe someone else said something about a face? i see that too.
the red looks like smeared blood. the tree looks as if it is trying to dominate the house.
the house itself is unstable, tilting to the side.

it looks like something that everyone wants to believe is perfect, like a summer day. so, you ignore the off-kilter bits in favor for the lie.

It's not a graphic movie, just intensly creepy. It's about a little girl that draws a house, then starts dreaming about the house. So, she adds things to it, but everything appears in exactly the way she drew it. Wow, that sounds really lame now that I type it out. Trust me though, it's creepy as hell.
It's based on a book, which was also supposedly turned into an even creepier BBC kids' series in the 70's.

Why would they make that into a kid's show? That movie really scared me.

Well, nothing I suppose. I was raised on horror movies and rock and roll, but all it really did for me was give me an unhealthy obsession with gore and a chronic fear of the dark. Not that I don't enjoy either of those things.

As for the picture, I made the mistake of reading everyone else's comments first. I've never been very good with anything abstract anyway. To me, it just looks like a typical impression of a kid's drawing.