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That is much more to my taste.
However what the art normally says to me isnt what I would prefer to hear.
However what the art normally says to me isnt what I would prefer to hear.
Yma o Hyd
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mrjemm wrote:OK, now then... will you both agree that this- http://salsacycles.com/bikes/vaya_travel is art?
Not really,it's pretty much like any other Vaya.........that's not been coloured in
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al_yrpal wrote:Ok, my answer is, very nice, we obviously like some of the same things. I don't care about the money side,but have been pressured to try selling things. The trouble with painting on canvases and not selling or giving away stuff is space. You are faced with foisting things on people, trying to sell them or destroying them and by putting them in the bin. I suppose if you are very good and well known you don't have that problem! I would still like to understand and appreciate the painting in the original post though. Anybody got a clue?
Al
It's a feeling.
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Some bikes are beautiful, the Vaya isn't a particularly graceful one. I don't think you can beat bikes like Mercians etc. The Vayas forks are a bit ugly compared with the slender forks on older road bikes. Obviously my friend won't agree.
Al
Al
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reohn2 wrote:mrjemm wrote:OK, now then... will you both agree that this- http://salsacycles.com/bikes/vaya_travel is art?
Not really,it's pretty much like any other Vaya.........that's not been coloured in
Sacrilege. Tis stainless (drool), with S&S couplings (slurp) and alternator drop outs (...oooh, erm, oooer). And £1700 frame'n forks, so it must be art!
Awright then...
Hehehe, I actually agree Al- I prefer the looks of curved forks, or even skinnier straight ones, and horizontal top-tubes. I did think that vandalism of art had occurred though when my bike was 1st scratched outside HMV by a girl's awful botch up build. Grrr.
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al_yrpal wrote:Some bikes are beautiful, the Vaya isn't a particularly graceful one. I don't think you can beat bikes like Mercians etc. The Vayas forks are a bit ugly compared with the slender forks on older road bikes. Obviously my friend won't agree.
Al
Eye,beauty,beholder,in
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al_yrpal wrote:Ah! RCA - Perhaps you can explain how we should experience something when confronted by coloured squares on a canvas that's not even very pleasing to most folks eyes?
Is it art, an old fashioned fashion, or simply a con?
Genuine query, not taking the p....
Al
I'm certainly no expert (though I've got an 'O' Level in art if that helps) but I would happily pay a great deal of money for that painting if I had the money ... which I don't. I would certainly pay for a print. To me it is so pleasing....
BTW we cannot be sure we are seeing the same painting, even allowing for differences of monitor etc.
When the pestilence strikes from the East, go far and breathe the cold air deeply. Ignore the sage, stay not indoors. Ho Ri Zon 12th Century Chinese philosopher
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Once upon a time, when the Tate was just the Tate (without Modern, Britain, Liverpool, etc.) I bought a selection of slides in the gift shop of my favourite pieces that I'd seen that day. I had Rothko in that little paper bag of delights (more than 1, I seem to recall). So I have paid for it! Wish I knew what happened to them.
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Got plenty of blank canvases that I was recently given when someone else packed it in, so I might try and knock one up along the same lines. as an experiment....
Have been looking on the web at what he was getting at. Horizon's one is more attractive than the fairly dull colour ones that are in the Tate. He is not connected with the Hepworth lot as far as I can see. I do like doing colourful things though:
Clear Water Mark by Alyrpal, on Flickr
Fresco - loose spinaker by Alyrpal, on Flickr
as an experiment....Have been looking on the web at what he was getting at. Horizon's one is more attractive than the fairly dull colour ones that are in the Tate. He is not connected with the Hepworth lot as far as I can see. I do like doing colourful things though:
Clear Water Mark by Alyrpal, on Flickr
Fresco - loose spinaker by Alyrpal, on Flickr
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Both "constructs"
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Beryl is quite 'big' in Cornwall. Her stuff is unique. Sadly there won't be any more. I enjoy looking at naive stuff like hers in galleries and whenever we go back to Cornwall especially at Mid Cornwall galleries. Loads of great artists down there.
The first one I did in Acrylics and the second was the first thing I did on a tablet.
Al
The first one I did in Acrylics and the second was the first thing I did on a tablet.
Al
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I thought your 1st there, Al, was the yacht Atalanta of Chester, hitting that big red tanker at Cowes.
2nd one could be a Folkboat.
2nd one could be a Folkboat.