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These were nice, but you forgot to mention the back room at the gallery, where Brian Yates was showing his mixed media work. Beautiful stuff.

I'm sure that I'm going to be labeled as ignorant and artistically-challenged, but I find these to be exceptionally unappealing both on an aesthetic level and on an emotional and psychological inspiration level. They evoke no emotions in me and seem dingy-looking and contrived for the sake of appearing avante garde and "artistic" rather than actually being either of those things.

Orchid64- you can't be labeled ignorant or artistically challneged if you sound like an art critic!

Sometimes I feel like this site is a test. A test to see just how much people will oooh and ahhh over something that just looks weird to me.

There's a bunch of stuff that is supposed to be art, like this:
http://www.bellevuearts.org/exhibitions/past/chairmaker.htm

I like that. But it's a chair, and it's art, so that means, I guess, that you can't sit in it. Or shouldn't anyway. Is that right?

There's this chair that is supposed to be art:
http://www.core77.com/blog/images/avb_core77_cutlerychair_osian.jpg

I wouldn't even want to sit in that. But here's a picture of the creator sitting in it:
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2005/10/we_get_email_fr_1.html

And guess where that leads back to:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/102005/slinks/slinks-004562

At least I can identify the chairs. Frankly, I don't know what to make of the above images. I don't. Am I supposed to get something from it? And what?

I'm not being rude here, I'm being serious. What is it that I am supposed to see in those images? What do other people see?

I just see a big mess.

Suggestion: Never take an Aspie to an art gallery opening, unless you want the unvarnished observations of people unable to lie and who take things literally.

Hey, it OKay to be a phillistein. You don't have to "get" art or understand it because it only has to understand YOU. So, these photographs made you feel dingy and confused. People need to understand and accept that the function of art is not necessarily to make you feeling something positive...rather it's created to make you feel SOMETHING.

Personally, I feel these striking images reflect the chaos of the world and convey a sense of isolation despite being among familiar objects. They are surreal.

Nobody has to like everything. That's why there's so many different kinds of everything. If people stop making things because it might not get through to everyone or is too weird for some people, then things swing the other way and get too common and bland because nobody's examining their imaginations.

Fear of failure, even in art, whatever, it's marketing, make some people convince themselves you appeal to them, make them feel different than they felt, make them want to take a small piece of you home for their comfort. I don't really like this, but I feel it's not my place to try to define what he could have done to make it better, or make it more appealing to me. That'd be what I make, and not the artist's expression, which by definition must be taken for what it is, or it isn't anything. From there, you can dismiss it or love it, but the world needs a slot for "weird people making a mess of art" because some come out genius. Without the doing of art, we could end up with none at all.

I love the pix,colors,costumes etc.
We need to be reminded constantly to be individuals in this all too uniform and taste challenged world.