My New Apartment

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

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You think the guy wearing a suit on a sartorial forum would be a hit. I was going to lie and say that I gave a bum $5 and he sketched my pic.

if you said that was a Kent Williams sketch, it could almost have passed

I actually quite like the bum piece. Esp the staining on the paper, altho I'd wonder where that came from

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

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"Suit & Tie", Homeless guy named Dana in Minneapolis


If anything it would make a good conversation piece. I couldn't help but crack a smile just because it's so awkward.

Originally Posted by milosh

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Any pics where you see more of the table and less of the FAMs? Beautifull shoes btw.

Great shoes, which brand is it??? I gotta give this to my BF... I wish

Nattie

Originally Posted by Get Smart

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I actually quite like the bum piece. Esp the staining on the paper, altho I'd wonder where that came from

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Originally Posted by Stazy

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i've seen better in kindergarden classes. The fact that it's from a bum that is "self-taugh" (obviously) doesn't add anything to it.

Originally Posted by GQgeek

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i've seen better in kindergarden classes.

Skill with the medium does not replace the value of the artist being uncorrupted by some art professor; the depth of a bum drawing a businessman; the lined paper symbolizing the education he never had; and all of these contributing to outsider/naif cred. And it was for a good cause!

Personally, the spot in my heart for "outsider" art shrinks everyday. Also, for all the art being made that is only able to be differentiated from outsider art by the amount of bullshit behind it.

But what do I know, I'm a figurative painter.

What type of clock do you have?

Originally Posted by Willsw

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Skill with the medium does not replace the value of the artist being uncorrupted by some art professor; the depth of a bum drawing a businessman; the lined paper symbolizing the education he never had; and all of these contributing to outsider/naif cred. And it was for a good cause! Personally, the spot in my heart for "outsider" art shrinks everyday. Also, for all the art being made that is only able to be differentiated from outsider art by the amount of bullshit behind it. But what do I know, I'm a figurative painter.
Do you think that art should stand alone, without any explanatory text?

Originally Posted by caelte

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Do you think that art should stand alone, without any explanatory text?

The explanatory text, in my view, serves different viewers in different ways. For the visual arts community, it is meat. They expect it, they judge it, it goes into the calculus they use to judge a piece. For the less informed audience, it serves as a sort of roadmap.

Things are going along swimmingly; but, I want everything to be perfect before I take pictures so give me a few more days.

Idea: At Saks there is "The Proust Questionaire" book in a nice leather binding with about 250 pages of a good weight stock with the 25 questions on each page.
Coo idea or not?: Each time someone new comes over they have to write their name at the top of the page and fill it out?

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

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Things are going along swimmingly; but, I want everything to be perfect before I take pictures so give me a few more days.

Idea: At Saks there is "The Proust Questionaire" book in a nice leather binding with about 250 pages of a good weight stock with the 25 questions on each page.
Coo idea or not?: Each time someone new comes over they have to write their name at the top of the page and fill it out?

You want guests to fill out a questionnaire when they come over?

Maybe I don't get it but this book sounds like just another dust-gathering, cluttering piece imo.

Would be fun, like a different type of Guest Book.


1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
2. Where would you like to live?
3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
4. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
5. Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
6. Who are your favorite characters in history?
77. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
88. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
9. Your favorite painter?
10. Your favorite musician?
11. The quality you most admire in a man?
12. The quality you most admire in a woman?
13. Your favorite virtue?
14. Your favorite occupation?
15. Who would you have liked to be?
16. Your most marked characteristic?
17. What do you most value in your friends?
18. What is your principle defect?
19. What is your favorite occupation?
20. What historical figures do you most despise?
21. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
22. How would you like to die?
23. What is your present state of mind?
24. What is your motto?

Originally Posted by caelte

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Do you think that art should stand alone, without any explanatory text?


I think art needs to be able to stand alone.

There's nothing more pretentious than a minimalist piece that is attached to a 250 page manifesto of how the artist arrived at a solid blue canvas with a 14.88" red circle on the upper right corner.

In that case, perhaps become a writer instead

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

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Would be fun, like a different type of Guest Book.


1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
2. Where would you like to live?
3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
4. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
5. Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
6. Who are your favorite characters in history?
77. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
88. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
9. Your favorite painter?
10. Your favorite musician?
11. The quality you most admire in a man?
12. The quality you most admire in a woman?
13. Your favorite virtue?
14. Your favorite occupation?
15. Who would you have liked to be?
16. Your most marked characteristic?
17. What do you most value in your friends?
18. What is your principle defect?
19. What is your favorite occupation?
20. What historical figures do you most despise?
21. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
22. How would you like to die?
23. What is your present state of mind?
24. What is your motto?

If my friend ever bought such a book and asked me to fill it out, with a straight face, and nothing indicating that it might in fact be a marsupialed joke... I'd probably rip on him and make him feel terrible about himself for at least a few hours.

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

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Would be fun, like a different type of Guest Book.


1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
2. Where would you like to live?
3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
4. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
5. Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
6. Who are your favorite characters in history?
77. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
88. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
9. Your favorite painter?
10. Your favorite musician?
11. The quality you most admire in a man?
12. The quality you most admire in a woman?
13. Your favorite virtue?
14. Your favorite occupation?
15. Who would you have liked to be?
16. Your most marked characteristic?
17. What do you most value in your friends?
18. What is your principle defect?
19. What is your favorite occupation?
20. What historical figures do you most despise?
21. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
22. How would you like to die?
23. What is your present state of mind?
24. What is your motto?

I guess we have different ideas of fun. I wouldn't mind discussing these questions but actually filling out a book - sorry. Maybe you'll get the first two pages filled because your friends will indulge you given the novelty but after that, I'd be thinking: "Here he goes again with these lame-ass questions; will we get fingerprinted and our mug shots taken next time we come over?"