Star Spotting

[pthomas]

The Celebs are on their holidays, I was in Malaga yesterday and having a drink at the next table at a bar near Calle Larios was an Eddie Izzard lookalike and today was having a coffee in Velez Malaga and Grayson Perry was puffing and panting in the heat carrying some bags of Mercadona shopping... a sight to behold

[costakid]

So if it was a look alike the stars are not out. LOL

[Lyric]

What is a Grayson Perry ?

[Stevemul]

You and a million others wonder that. The rest don't give a ****

[Lyric]

I think it must be some kind of Babycham derivative.

[Lavanda]

Grayson Perry, or Claire as he/she is sometimes known, is a Turner Prize winning artist and one of the best practitioners working in the UK today. Who could fail to be moved by his Turner Prize entry? Never mind the shape and structure of the pots but, what colour and glaze, and then there is the subject matter. Really, people, I'm so disappointed in you. I took 60 students up to London specifically to see Grayson's work at the Tate and they all thought ... eh? Plebs! Probably all working in Morrisons right now. I also met him/her in the National Portrait Gallery at a Private View one year. Such a nice person and soooooooo talented. Trust me.

[pthomas]

Exactly Lavanda...shame on you Lyric Bit to see him/her in full Laydee mode in Velez Malaga was slightly leftfield...
Pic just for you Lyric

[Stevemul]

But is it art......?

[GerryinCajiz]

Totally confused, so I will put my telescope back in its box!

[Lavanda]

But is it art......?

The age-old cry! To be honest — yes, it is Art. The difficulty with Art is that we bring our emotions and experience with us when we view, or are involved with, Art. So much of our responses is based on that and it's subjective. This year is the 100 anniversary of the founding of the Dada Art Movement, although the Dadaists might reject that they were ever a 'Movement'. Their philosophy was that, in a nutshell, anything was Art if they said it was. In my opinion some of what they produced was very poor but who could fail to be excited by the work of Kurt Schwitters one of my very favourite 'Modern Artists". Although he was German he spent the last years of his life in the Lake District, Ambleside, I think, and died in Kendal. Moving on from Dada, I was very disappointed when Tracey Emin won the Turner Prize for her unmade bed and couldn't understand why she was celebrated as a great new talent. Dada did it first — and, in my opinion, better. Art is HUGLY and ENORMOUSLY important and we are surrounded by it but, what one person classes as 'Art' might leave another person completely cold.That's perfectly fine.

[Stevemul]

Exciting?

[peteroldracer]

I now understand why there are lots of warning signs around Velez & Torre...."Priority Tranvia"....

[Wicksey]

Totally confused, so I will put my telescope back in its box!

LOL .... that's why I looked at this thread too, thinking it was more of a celestial thing!

I do like Grayson Perry's house he built though ....
http://www.living-architecture.com/the- ... ex/photos/

[firsttango]

I now understand why there are lots of warning signs around Velez & Torre...."Priority Tranvia"....

Most amusing Peter

[Lavanda]

Exciting?

Yes! If nothing else look at the colour composition. All restrained monochrome with subtle browns. Then there are the three primary colours. Only. This collage was made entirely of found materials — the ultimate in recycling. There's a lovely story told by past students from the Royal College of Art in London from when they were evacuated to Ambleside during WWII. They would regularly see an old man, in old clothes, rummaging through bins for cardboard and newspapers. Only when he had died did they realise it was Kurt Schwitters collecting material for his work. I love that story. They were 'Star Spotting' but never realised it at the time.

[Stevemul]

By my grandaughter age 4
Note the primary colours, the perspective and the intellectual precociousness. Pure genius!

[Wicksey]

Warhol’s ‘Invisible Sculpture'; - dating from 1985 - consists of an empty plinth on which he had once briefly stepped.
Another work, ‘1000 Hours of Staring’, is a blank piece of paper at which artist Tom Friedman has stared repeatedly over the space of five years.


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Ha ha .... should have been an 'artist' and made my fortune.

[pthomas]

Grayson Perry's twee little blonde bob wig is a work of art in itself....



Ms Perry's stylist GwendoLyn has a lot to answer for

[Lavanda]

To be honest, Stevemul, if that was done by your four year old granddaughter, unaided, then I see real potential. At four she has a pretty good grasp of describing the 3-D world around her in 2-D visual terms. Does she live in the UK? I only ask because the cloud is higher, and more significant, than the sun. It's also central.

[Manchesteral]

"In the end all art is quite useless"