A peculiarity about mini painting

[supervike]

It must be art!!

scene one

setting Art Class somewhere in heaven

Leonardo Da Vinci \" Hey guys! How is it going?\"

Michealangelo \"Oh hi Leo. Just working on my new Confrontation army. I mean, its no sistine chapel, but hey, I like it!\"

\"Vincent Van Gogh Whats up! Hey do you have any ears in that bitz box?\"

Andy Warhol \"Check out this new shield design I am working on. I know I know...It just looks a little soupy now but...\"

Leonardo\" I got to get to work on my Golden Deamon entry. SENMM doesn\'t paint itself you know.\"

MichaelAngelo\"Didn\'t you guys invent that?\"

Picasso\"I just feel like painting this Amazon CMON contest mini all blue. Actually, I want to paint everything blue.\"

Monet\"DAMN Eyes! I can\'t seem to paint them things up close. But you know if you hold it back a ways, it doesn\'t look too bad....\"

LeonardoHey, what color should I paint my Blood Angels??



SEE!! Mini painting is truly art!lollol

 

[Rachel]

I have just read through it all and frankly, I have lost the will to live......

heh, li\'l bit over here too...

It\'s one of those threads that always pops up on painting lists from time to time, the same opinions surface, people think about stuff but no-one really convinces anyone of anything .

Me, I think I\'m in a minority of not thinking anything\'s \'art\' - it\'s mainly a semantic thing, I just don\'t think the term has any validity anymore. If it ever did .

Some stuff\'s shocking.
Some is inspiring.
Some technically brilliant.
Some makes a comment on society/politics/other stuff that makes you think in some way (or not )
Some is just pretty.
Some has great historical significance.
Some was done by an interesting person - the person is the focus rather than the product.
Some turns a genre/industry on it\'s head.
Maybe it provides an emotional/visceral/etc response of some kind... maybe it just matches your walls
Could make a bold statement to the world, or perhaps just be considered vandalism

I think I\'m repeating myself, so I\'ll stop there - my point is, what makes any of it art, or not? Why can\'t it just be what it is without somehow having to be qualified with this fuzzy moniker?

Or is it just so we know what to put in galleries?

cheers