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Why Do We Look at Art

post #1 of 12
8/4/09 at 12:33pm
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/ar...abroad.html?em
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post #2 of 12
8/4/09 at 12:41pm
A major flaw in that article is thinking of the Louvre as an art museum and not the tourist trap it really is. Their salon hung plunder hardly invites deep reflection.
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post #3 of 12
8/4/09 at 12:45pm
Interesting article, but I would have written it from the "impress the women" angle.
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post #4 of 12
8/4/09 at 12:47pm
There is nothing more ridiculous than the people who walk around and take shots of paintings with cameras and leave.
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post #5 of 12
8/4/09 at 12:56pm
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There is nothing more ridiculous than the people who walk around and take shots of paintings with cameras and leave.

Off the top of my head I can come up with a list of several things more ridiculous that this.
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post #6 of 12
8/4/09 at 1:02pm
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There is nothing more ridiculous than the people who walk around and take shots of paintings with cameras and leave.

When I was standing in front of Raffael's Sistine Madonna at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, I made damn sure I took a picture of it.
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post #7 of 12
8/4/09 at 3:59pm
I look at art for the titties.
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post #8 of 12
8/4/09 at 4:29pm
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I look at art for the titties.

Rock 'n roll, man. Rock 'n roll.
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post #9 of 12
8/5/09 at 5:43am
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I look at art for the titties.

Titties are art, just God's.
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post #10 of 12
8/5/09 at 6:09am
LOL.

Who cares?

Most people are philistines who only have a superficial interest in art anyway.

Art is often used as a means of social climbing. I am amused and disgusted by art dealers who are only interested in representing artists who have studied at certain academies -- what pretentious morons -- I pity them for never understanding the true value of great art.
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post #11 of 12
8/5/09 at 10:29am
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Art is often used as a means of social climbing. .

True dat.
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post #12 of 12
8/6/09 at 6:09am
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Originally Posted by Jekyll View Post
I look at art for the titties.

I went to an exhibition recently with an unrefined friend and he made the following comment:

"˜These cunts love tits'

It's a fair call.
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