{"id":246,"date":"2005-03-17T16:27:36","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T08:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2005\/03\/2005_03_17_1627.php"},"modified":"2005-03-17T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2005-03-17T08:27:36","slug":"thou-art-good-thou-art-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/17\/thou-art-good-thou-art-bad","title":{"rendered":"Thou art: good; thou art: bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nWhy is it that people call art like this bad…\n<\/td>\n		\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n
\nand this priceless?\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Not that I’m judging any one of those artworks. It’s just that I don’t see the point of having something like The Museum of Bad Art,<\/a> when bad art can be considered good – and vise versa. What exactly defines good\/bad art? It would be easy to distinguish in the context of realism… but what about the abstract? Like those two up there, or Picasso’s works, or post-modernist artwork which just use a bunch of shapes and colors?<\/p>\n

Sometimes I think that the art people look for is in the artist<\/em> and not the art itself<\/em> anymore. I dearly hope that’s not the case in the world today.<\/p>\n

But in any case, I definitely think that sites like The Museum of Bad Art<\/a> shouldn’t be in existence because they attempt to quantify something which cannot be quantified – in this case an artworks’ beauty.<\/em> I say all art made for art’s sake is beautiful, unique, and should be given the chance to be appreciated.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is it that people call art like this bad… and this priceless? Not that I’m judging any one of those artworks. It’s just that I don’t see the point of having something like The Museum of Bad Art, when bad art can be considered good – and vise versa. What exactly defines good\/bad art? …

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