Art or cR@p?

[EFerrari]

For the first time in our whole marriage, we're buying a little eye candy for the walls. It went fine for the first three pieces. Then, I wanted these.

Doug says these guys look like balloon animals and won't let me take them out of the box. Actually, he said, "What IS that? It looks like balloon animinals."

"It's dancers."

"Okay, it looks like dancers with balloon animals up their butts."

Whaddya think? :shrug:

[Squatch]

1. The second one looks like something out of the Kama Sutra

[EFerrari]

2. Can you see it? Doug says it looks like

a grasshopper.

lol

[trof]

53. Naw. Jitterbuggers.

Anybody could see that.

[EFerrari]

57. Apparently not. I really like them. :)

[SofaKingLiberal]

3. They remind me of ink blots, and they both look dirty to me.

:P

[redwitch]

10. You just brought tears to my eyes

I love to laugh that hard, thanks! The first one didn't look dirty to me at first, but then I studied it for awhile. :P

[EFerrari]

4. cR@P! I think is when you name something like this "Serenity"

:wtf:

[EFerrari]

or this, "Tremendous Nearness"

:rofl:

[NV Whino]

29. Maybe

"Nearsighted" is a better title for that one.

[EFerrari]

33. Lol! Or maybe, "The Queen Mary"

:rofl:

[NV Whino]

35. Titanic?

[amitten]

5. The first one looks like a dancer. The second one...

Balloon animal wrestling.

[EFerrari]

9. LOL! Okay

:)

[matcom]

6. that third one scared the hell outta me

:scared:

:D

[EFerrari]

11. Thank you for weighing in.

lol

[matcom]

12. ACK!

there it is again! :hide:

[EFerrari]

15. Don't look -- you know you have to!

[matcom]

16. MAKE IT STOP!!

:D

[EFerrari]

17. OKAY!

oops!

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Ah, Flamenco and Tango!

I do like them. :hi:

[EFerrari]

13. You'd let me take them out of their cardboard jails

wouldn't you, Call me Wesley?

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

19. Absolutely.

I especially like the calligraphic brushstrokes.

[EFerrari]

24. I like the primary colors and the economy of the brush strokes.

It looks easy and it's not easy. Sprezzatura.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. The second one looks kind of fun...

...but I'm not as young as I used to be. I doubt I could hold that position too long... :evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

14. I've never been anti-gravitational

but that doesn't mean I will stop trying.

:evilgrin:

/no typing, not even a hope of typing

[Patiod]

18. I like them a lot

can you compromise? Maybe put them in a bathroom?

My friend hated her husband's Elvis etching, but he was very attached to it, so it ended up in the downstairs powder room.

[GalleryGod]

21. LOL! Great Story, Pat !

Just for you...The Big Bopper!

[Patiod]

67. Saw a great promo piece on him

the phillies were running profiles of players -- paid advertising, I guess. Howard was trying to act all street, keepin it real. Then they show where he grew up -- this giant McMansion-looking-thing on a huge hill somewhere in the Midwest -- "just imagine - my brother and I had to mow that!". Completely blew all his street cred. His parents were really cute - both professor-types who seemed genuinely perplexed as to where their son got his mad baseball skills. And his suburban public high school baseball coach, who was happy as pie that God had dropped someone like Howard onto his team.

The profiles said something like "first in a series of profiles that we'll be running periodically..." but never caught any more of them.

[EFerrari]

22. I would but our "powderoom" won't hold them and even one

of us at the same time.

People who want to come out of the closet move to San Francisco, usually to yet another closet!

Ah. I may have to cheat on Doug by giving them away and then spend a lot of time away from home :)

[ComerPerro]

70. I like them as well

[EstimatedProphet]

20. The second one reminds me of this video:

called "I just want bang bang bang"

http://www.starterupsteve.com/swf/Group_X_video.html

[EFerrari]

23. Wait -- do I click on that finger or what?

Lol!

[WeRQ4U]

25. I like them.

Even if they do look balloon-esque.

[EFerrari]

26. I have the dinner wash up riding on this, okay?

Lol.

Would you put them up in your livingroom?

:P

[WeRQ4U]

28. Depends on the colors in the living room I suppose.

How many are there, just the two?

[EFerrari]

30. So far, these two:

Everything else is white, light wood floors -- trying to keep all the light we can as we both need lots of it.

edit: grammar

[WeRQ4U]

32. Seems like they fit.

I say go for it. I like them.

[EFerrari]

37. Thank you, I may not have to do dishes tonight.

:evilgrin:

[NV Whino]

27. i think it's cool brushwork

[EFerrari]

31. It's so seemingly simple. I really like that.

:)

And Doug thinks it's too simple, too easy.

I am comitted not to drive him crazy -- I think that was in the contract? But, I really like these two guys.

[NV Whino]

34. Got a space that is solely your?

Put 'em there.

[EFerrari]

36. No. We live in a very small condo.

It's all good. If I give them to a friend at least I will be able to visit.

[bertha katzenengel]

38. I like the first one.

Second one, not so much.

:shrug:

[EFerrari]

39. The second one --why? More like balloon animals?

:shrug:

Me, too. But, I like both of them.

[Rising Phoenix]

40. I like them...

but, believe it or not, I would put them in a kids room...the colors are so vivid and the subject so simple...

[EFerrari]

42. You bagged it, Mrs. Sniffa! We're just big kids here

and we intend to stay that way.

:)

[Rising Phoenix]

44. good for you...

same goes for us too! we will never grow up!

[EFerrari]

45. There's no future in growing up. Please tell me WHY this piece

was named "Eternity"?



:rofl:

[Rising Phoenix]

48. because it is a circle...

it has no end... it just keeps going and going...I like it...did you buy it?

[EFerrari]

49. I didn't buy it because it looks like a loser circle.

More like "this hangover" than "eternity:

:evilgrin:

[Rising Phoenix]

50. good reason...I too like more in my art than a circle

but some people go for the plain pieces and as far as plain pieces go it aint' bad

[EFerrari]

51. I'm an addict of "plain". And like the image.

Maybe it just needs another name? :shrug:

"The Queen Mary"

"Apocalypse"

or

"Ecstasy"

:)

[Cobalt Violet]

41. I like them.

Maybe you can rotate hanging them with other pieces for a month here and there like a gallery.

[EFerrari]

43. That would be a great solution. Maybe a good one. Hmm.

I will definitely float the idea. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. I have to say, they don't move me - and they're similar in style

to how I paint at times, so it's not an issue of style.

They just seem to me to be heavy-handed; they don't quite grab the sense of motion. And I'm not keen on the colors. I look at them, and I can tell they are dancers, but they seem to be dancers who have lined their clothing with lead sheets.

I want more flow, more joy, more openness, less brushwork, and lighter brushwork.

[EFerrari]

47. damn. I'm going to end up doing the dishes.

:)

[Gatchaman]

54. I like the dancers better than the squares

but it's all crap, as far as I'm concerned. I guess I'm just a neandertal, but I like realistic art that looks like something.

FWIW, I would not argue over the dancers, but I really wouldn't want those dopey squares anywhere I had to actually look at them.

[EFerrari]

55. It's funny because we both like abstracts as figures are boring.

With the dopey squares, you can keep inventing new content every day instead of only looking at what someone else decided to see. But, I hear you. We're just bent, I guess. :)

[ronnykmarshall]

52. I wanna see the figures, the figures.

I don't care what it looks like I wanna how much it's gonna worth is 10 years.

It all looks like bollock anyway.

[EFerrari]

56. Mom, is that you?

lol

[Redstone]

58. I don't know from Art, but they look kinda kindergartenish to me.

But hey, I was never impressed by Jackson Pollack flinging paint randomly at a canvas, either. Or the guy who was getting big bux for painting squares.

Redstone

[EFerrari]

60. I don't care from "art" but, funny, that's why I do like them.

Only a few lines. And color sort of not apologizing.

I really, really don't like abstracts that get names like "Eternity" or "Your Granny" or "Two Cats" when there's only a gray blob and a blue blob. lol

This probably means I will be cleaning up tonight. Ack.

[Redstone]

65. (Don't tell anyone, but I kinda liked them, kindergartenish or not.)

Redstone

[tigereye]

59. I like em

[legally blonde]

61. I like them

But they do look a little dirty. Especially the second one.:evilgrin:

[elehhhhna]

62. LOVE the top one.

[EFerrari]

64. I do, too! Because I have no idea.

It's just great. lol

[Lefty48197]

63. I think they're both good

and I think most "art" is crap.

[EFerrari]

66. That works folr me.

:)

[kick-ass-bob]

68. Locking.

No nudie pictures on DU.

:P

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

69. I'm no fan of modern art, but that is definitely good

[Strong Atheist]

71. I loath modern art. nt.

[peekaloo]

72. I see a dancer and a graffiti artist.

I like 'em.