{"id":96,"date":"2009-02-27T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2009\/02\/art-for-arts-sake.html"},"modified":"2009-02-27T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T07:20:00","slug":"art-for-arts-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2009\/02\/art-for-arts-sake.html","title":{"rendered":"Art for art&#8217;s sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a continuation of Post <a href=\"http:\/\/reviewroom.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/sunday-philosophy-club.html\">1<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/reviewroom.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/edward-hoppers-art.html\">2<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>My thing with art has always been that is should be good enough to be remembered, and who cares if it is deep enough for the critics ! If I go to a home or to a public place and there\u2019s stuff hanging on the walls, and when I return home, all I can remember is \u201cstuff\u201d and not the details, then that has really not been art for me. Hence my distaste for the generic plant\/vases\/fruits\/animal paintings you see everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>I like Jack Vettriano&#8217;s work, although some of his paintings are too mushy and too obvious for my taste.  I like the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Vettriano,_Singing_Butler.jpg\">\u201cSinging Butler\u201d<\/a> because it\u2019s got that hint of romance, but then again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgallery.com\/enlarge\/019-24654\/\">\u201cDance me to the end of love\u201d<\/a> is a bit much. A lot of Vettriano paintings feature nicely dressed people on the beach. And interestingly, Vettriano started out as a mining engineer, only accidentally turning to painting when he was given a set of paints by a girl-friend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/amodini\/3308610316\/\" title=\"Missing Man by amodini, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3365\/3308610316_246c5da764_o.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Missing Man\" align=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above : Jack Vettriano&#8217;s &#8220;The Missing Man I&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vettriano\u2019s art is much maligned as being <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Vettriano\"> \u201cvulgar and devoid of imagination\u201d<\/a>. But in that respect I think the criticism of apparently \u201cfrothy\u201d art is similar to the criticism of \u201cfrothy\u201d books. Must we read only literature and must we view only \u201cdeep\u201d art ? What about the whimsical, the light-hearted, the fun ? Should we give all that up because it isn\u2019t deep or worthy of us ? That would be silly \u2013 if it pleases the eye and warms the soul, why not ?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11570614-6081140015866939958?l=reviewroom.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a continuation of Post 1, and 2. My thing with art has always been that is should be good enough to be remembered, and who cares if it is deep enough for the critics ! If I go to a home or to a public place and there\u2019s stuff hanging on the walls, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"This is a continuation of Post 1, and 2. 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