UPDATE: See bottom of entry
Is this art? I saw this piece Train Landscape, 1952-53 by Ellsworth Kelly during a recent visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. It's three colored panels that are connected together.
What makes it different than my work, Three Post It Notes, Taped Together 2010?
Granted, my cutting and taping job is a little crooked, but if I spend more than 30 seconds doing it, I might be able to get everything lined up better.
I believe that many things can be considered art, but to me good art needs to show some skill in its creation.
UPDATE: Thanks to Visualingual for the correction of the name Ellsworth Kelly. Perhaps I was a little too simplistic and quick to judge so I Googled an explanation of the painting.
Here's Ellsworth Kelly's piece: Train Landscape, 1952-1953
I believe I understand what Ellsworth Kelly's idea is, a minimalist representation of a landscape view from a train, but even knowing this, I still find the work to be pretty weak.
I do like the Cézanne, though.
Is this art? I saw this piece Train Landscape, 1952-53 by Ellsworth Kelly during a recent visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. It's three colored panels that are connected together.
link to: The Art Institute of Chicago Train Landscape, 1952-53 page
What makes it different than my work, Three Post It Notes, Taped Together 2010?
Granted, my cutting and taping job is a little crooked, but if I spend more than 30 seconds doing it, I might be able to get everything lined up better.
I believe that many things can be considered art, but to me good art needs to show some skill in its creation.UPDATE: Thanks to Visualingual for the correction of the name Ellsworth Kelly. Perhaps I was a little too simplistic and quick to judge so I Googled an explanation of the painting.
Another ongoing catalyst for Kelly is Cézanne's use of color to create form. Cézanne endeavored to capture his sensations of nature directly, through color, rather than constructing an illusion of reality, with the painting as a sort of window onto the world. In Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves, Cézanne divides his canvas into three bands of color, effectively flattening the deep perspective of a mountain view and bringing it right up to the picture plane, with dabs of color that sit directly on the painting's surface. As if boiling Cézanne's painting down to its essential parts, Kelly's Train Landscape consists of three monochrome horizontal panels, joined together to create an effect of space and surface similar to the Mont Sainte-Victoire. Kelly first conceived of Train Landscape while looking out a moving train's window onto an expanse of mustard growing in a field, but his process of painting is less about representing a landscape in a recognizable way, and more about being true to his perceptions of nature. Kelly's planes of single colors take Cézanne's sensation to an extreme conclusion, and in turn help us see Cézanne's painting in a new way. Through Kelly's eyes--and those of all the artists in Cézanne and Beyond-- Cézanne's work continues to reveal its complexity, richness, and, most of all, its relevancy.Here's Cézanne's piece: Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves, 1902-1906
Here's Ellsworth Kelly's piece: Train Landscape, 1952-1953I believe I understand what Ellsworth Kelly's idea is, a minimalist representation of a landscape view from a train, but even knowing this, I still find the work to be pretty weak. I do like the Cézanne, though.
