The 'art' at the corner of Junction and Main.

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"I don't know art, but I know what I don't like".

I have a cousin that did a lot of sculpting. She was very artistic with music, painting, sketching, and pottery too. Of all her talents, sculpting seemed to be the one that took the most talent, IMO.

The public space art that always made me scratch my head was the stuff made out of bended pieces of iron welded together.
 
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It will go good with this collection!
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How about this one down by Nissan Stadium in Nashville. Looks like somebody started to build a roller coaster and gave up. $500K.

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My brother, who is an artist, uses the phrase “slob art” to describe stuff that’s put up because somebody thinks “hey we should put some art there.” Hotel room paintings are slob art. They are just there to signify “art” without requiring any thought.

A lot of figurative (meaning more or less realistic) statues are slob art. They don’t tell you anything about the person. The Fonzie statue in Milwaukee is slob art: a creepy statue of a fictitious character nobody under 60 remembers. It’s not a statue of Henry winkler, though it looks like him. I’d probably take a selfie with it, because it’s weird! but it’s basically slob art, according to my brothers definition.

I don’t much like either the sturgis sculpture or the Nashville one, but I don’t think either one is slob art, because they aren’t just doing the obvious thing

Ai music is slob art. Beer commercial blues is slob art.
 
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Or, this one at another round-about in Nashville. $750K. Supposed to resemble a gladiator arena to go along with the Parthenon theme....

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BigPapa-53 said:
Or, this one at another round-about in Nashville. $750K. Supposed to resemble a gladiator arena to go along with the Parthenon theme....

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Somebody, somewhere, is having a good laugh at the expense of the folks in Nashville. I'm just going to have to come right on out and say this. If someone has to explain it to you, it ain't art!
 
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maxvintage said:
My brother, who is an artist, uses the phrase “slob art” to describe stuff that’s put up because somebody thinks “hey we should put some art there.” Hotel room paintings are slob art. They are just there to signify “art” without requiring any thought.

A lot of figurative (meaning more or less realistic) statues are slob art. They don’t tell you anything about the person. The Fonzie statue in Milwaukee is slob art: a creepy statue of a fictitious character nobody under 60 remembers. It’s not a statue of Henry winkler, though it looks like him. I’d probably take a selfie with it, because it’s weird! but it’s basically slob art, according to my brothers definition.

I don’t much like either the sturgis sculpture or the Nashville one, but I don’t think either one is slob art, because they aren’t just doing the obvious thing

Ai music is slob art. Beer commercial blues is slob art.
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My friend, Jo Whited, who is a pretty accomplished artist and another friend Brad Eberhard, also an accomplished artist both sold lots of art to hotel chains in their early years to help keep going... I remember one piece that Jo had in her house that I loved and it went to a really nice hotel in Cincinnati...

I've been thinking of whether or not those pieces are still in those hotels, this might be a good time to go 'check out' with a few...

I guess the Rocky statue in Philly is 'slob art'

Slob art... I guess we all draw lines... sometimes they are called art... sometimes they indicate something very different.

Then again, I think a lot of reviewers in the late 60's and into the 70's saw Led Zeppelin that way too.
 
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Definitely not my cup of tea. But it does invoke emotion. Something about a face only a mother could love
 
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getbent said:
My friend, Jo Whited, who is a pretty accomplished artist and another friend Brad Eberhard, also an accomplished artist both sold lots of art to hotel chains in their early years to help keep going... I remember one piece that Jo had in her house that I loved and it went to a really nice hotel in Cincinnati...

I've been thinking of whether or not those pieces are still in those hotels, this might be a good time to go 'check out' with a few...

I guess the Rocky statue in Philly is 'slob art'

Slob art... I guess we all draw lines... sometimes they are called art... sometimes they indicate something very different.

Then again, I think a lot of reviewers in the late 60's and into the 70's saw Led Zeppelin that way too.
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Yeah, I think the rocky statue is slob art. It’s fun, people and enjoy it, great, fine but it’s a movie prop. People seeing the statue should maybe go into the art museum it sits in front of, see some non slob art.

I’m sure there are degrees of hotel painting, but how often can you remember a hotel painting?

My brother has certainly been paid for work he thinks is slob art, done “strictly from hunger.” Everybody needs to make a living, but not everything is the same
 
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Buell said:
Don't ya love it when an artist says, "Good enough"?
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I’m fine with that, it’s when a contractor says “Eh- GEFWIF !”

(Good enough for who it’s for). 👍🏽
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Steve Colbert and his delightful wife, Evie have a periodic sketch called "first drafts"
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maybe the piece @John Backlund shared w/ us is not the final product?
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Remember, the one on the left was someone’s idea of Lucy in a statue commissioned by her hometown. The one on the right was the second draft…

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Them kids need to put on some clothes!
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Not so fast, not so fast - I think I’m in love with a couple ! 😍😍😍
 
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getbent said:
he said, 'art isn't just to please or calm you, art is about getting people to react, so, everyone here reacted and remembered the art and look at us, we are having a conversation about art and about community and government and we are all now ready to entertain what the nature of art is... that piece caused that.'
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^^^THIS!^^^
 
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