Comments on: Tate Modern Art Gallery London – "I don't get Modern Art" http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/06/05/tate-modern-london-art-i-dont-get-modern-art/ "I am what I am because of who we all are" [Ubuntu] Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:04:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Charles Thomson http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/06/05/tate-modern-london-art-i-dont-get-modern-art/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Charles Thomson Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:39:26 +0000 http://www.rickseymour.com/?p=416#comment-31 Actually they take photographs, not photgraphs. Actually they take photographs, not photgraphs.

]]> By: Charles Thomson http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/06/05/tate-modern-london-art-i-dont-get-modern-art/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Charles Thomson Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:38:33 +0000 http://www.rickseymour.com/?p=416#comment-32 The Stuckists have never defined an artist as "being only someone who paints with the exclusion of sculptors, printmakers, those who make drawings" and in fact do all of those, as well as take photgraphs, make videos, write and perform poems, write fiction, and make music. The Stuckists have never defined an artist as “being only someone who paints with the exclusion of sculptors, printmakers, those who make drawings” and in fact do all of those, as well as take photgraphs, make videos, write and perform poems, write fiction, and make music.

]]> By: Rick.Seymour http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/06/05/tate-modern-london-art-i-dont-get-modern-art/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Rick.Seymour Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:37:45 +0000 http://www.rickseymour.com/?p=416#comment-30 Thank you for your comments on my trip to London's Tate Modern. Actually I quite like the works on your website, it's pretty, and you can tell that you've put time into your work. My preferred art is 1600s paintings... but... I try :) Good to see that you've been recommissioned!! Thank you for your comments on my trip to London’s Tate Modern.
Actually I quite like the works on your website, it’s pretty, and you can tell that you’ve put time into your work.
My preferred art is 1600s paintings… but… I try :)
Good to see that you’ve been recommissioned!!

]]> By: printtroll http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/06/05/tate-modern-london-art-i-dont-get-modern-art/comment-page-1/#comment-29 printtroll Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:28:41 +0000 http://www.rickseymour.com/?p=416#comment-29 BTW I am not a Stuckist. Their definition of an artist being only someone who paints with the exclusion of sculptors, printmakers, those who make drawings I find repulsive and elitist. I believe an artist can make art with all sorts of media. I am dismayed when it appears, as you mentioned, the artist has no care for the work they make. BTW I am not a Stuckist. Their definition of an artist being only someone who paints with the exclusion of sculptors, printmakers, those who make drawings I find repulsive and elitist.

I believe an artist can make art with all sorts of media. I am dismayed when it appears, as you mentioned, the artist has no care for the work they make.

]]> By: printtroll http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/06/05/tate-modern-london-art-i-dont-get-modern-art/comment-page-1/#comment-28 printtroll Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:13:51 +0000 http://www.rickseymour.com/?p=416#comment-28 Rick - I think using the Tate Modern as a barometer of "modern" art might be, well, skewed. The Tate continually shows work that "questions" the very fabric of what art is. This is really not a modernist trait, rather an idea ripped out of context of Dada and used in a way, many artists, feel is detrimental to the well being of creating artists. The largest group speaking out would be the Stuckist check them out here: http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html. I truly appreciate your point, much art today is bound so deeply in its own self important rhetoric it forgets that it has to speak to a larger body of the public than the artist and his or her best friends and their art critic/marketing jesters. Rick – I think using the Tate Modern as a barometer of “modern” art might be, well, skewed. The Tate continually shows work that “questions” the very fabric of what art is. This is really not a modernist trait, rather an idea ripped out of context of Dada and used in a way, many artists, feel is detrimental to the well being of creating artists. The largest group speaking out would be the Stuckist check them out here: http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html.

I truly appreciate your point, much art today is bound so deeply in its own self important rhetoric it forgets that it has to speak to a larger body of the public than the artist and his or her best friends and their art critic/marketing jesters.

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