Probably fifteen years ago, I walked into an art museum, and the first painting I saw was an approximately 3 x 6 foot canvas painted solid red. No lines, no designs, no other colors: nothing but red.
It looked a little something like this:
I have long bemoaned the fact that this monochromatic quadrilateral was considered art. Fifteen years later, of all the pieces of artwork I have ever seen in person at a museum, the red parallelogram is the single piece that I remember most vividly and with the greatest emotion.
OK, artist wins.
Credits:
Images on right and left accessed from Wikipedia
Image in middle recreated from memory
Musings about what qualifies as art inspired by Mike
5 comments:
Blog again.
That is an impressive rendering. You have a real future in Photoshop art!
I love the images. Perhaps I should direct my students to your blog for a lesson in proper citations! :)
I want a painting of THAT image (the red block in the middle, the "don't touch" sign - the whole thing)
russ... no doubt i will.
avery and watchwhathappens... thanks. if this blogging gig doesn't work out, i may turn to low-budget graphic design.
unbalanced... in my required grad school "scientific ethics" course, we had to write a paper on how not to plagiarize. i was tempted to copy (without citing) the section out of the MLA handbook on the same topic and conclude with "Don't do this."
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