Comments on: Cat and Girl versus Contemporary Art

By: Offendi

Offendi — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:34:39 +0000

Nah, I think guess-the-jellybeans is just another piece of our common culture that Dorothy invoked.

It occurs to me that if you’re going to put your art on display, you might as well put it in a language that more than you and a few insiders can understand. Unconventional choice of symbols is one thing. Incomprehensibility defeats the purpose of exhibiting art.

By: Sprayette

Sprayette — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:18:06 +0000

Holy crap another reference to a fucking ancient Cat and Girl comic

By: Pere

Pere — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:34:06 +0000

I love this strip, but I’d like to mention that I really like a lot of modern art. It’s just like everything out there: there are a lot of hacks, a bunch of clever dicks who are in it to make money, several artists who only make sense in their own heads, and some things that really speak to certain people. You have to really like the stuff to stick around long enough to find the ones you love, but you can say that about film or comics or music.

By: dogimo

dogimo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:39:41 +0000

The purpose of contemporary art is to confound meaning, thus giving purpose to contemporary art criticism. Art that serves this purpose is recognized and rewarded; art that fails to serve is suppressed.

By: Shii

Shii — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:30:42 +0000

Adam: I’m afraid you’re totally wrong.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:27:06 +0000

No, there are totally wrong answers. Lots of them.

By: Nny

Nny — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:33:48 +0000

idiots? if it’s a matter of point of view, there is no wrong answer then. tje definition of contemporary art is gonna change in 5 years anyway

By: Lucy

Lucy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:38:41 +0000

If you’re struggling with what the meaning is then you don’t get the point. M is correct from a cynics point of view, Double W is correct from the point of view of someone who thinks they understand Modern/Contemporary art but has also missed the point. It really couldn’t be simpler, it’s what you take away from it. Idiots.

By: idkrash

idkrash — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:58:34 +0000

Does anyone remember astroboy?

By: Erika

Erika — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:52:54 +0000

I always come up with meanings for my art *after* I create it. While I’m making the art, I’m totally oblivious, then afterwards I think of something. And the crazy thing is that it always makes enough sense that people have trouble believing me when I say I made it up afterwards.

Like this one:

http://www.erikahammerschmidt.com/erika/art.html#tomato

I didn’t even think about “tomato” being a slang word for a woman while I was doing it. And this one:

http://www.erikahammerschmidt.com/erika/earth.html

For the most part, the meaning was conscious, but I didn’t even notice the whole “planet’s rotation” thing until I was done with the painting. And this one:

http://www.erikahammerschmidt.com/erika/cutfeathers.html

I really didn’t mean to be making a statement about clipped wings curtailing a parrot’s freedom, when I portrayed our bird’s clipped feathers pinned to the cloth and his unclipped ones floating free. And this one:

http://www.erikahammerschmidt.com/erika/art.html#belief

I didn’t even think about the whole “die blaue Blume” thing when I chose a blue flower as the hidden sculpture.

Am I doing this stuff subconsciously, or am I just good at making crap up?