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is painting dead?
what are your views

By george2088

No. Alive a flourishing! :)

By PNWArtist

seems to keep trucking along all in all. Hi there linda.

By jimmyx10

not unless it is alive even if it is in context of death i suppose

By soshuM

No.
Just look at this site alone...there are gazillions of people churning out pictures.
I think there is room for all sorts of self expression. Painting is like magic. Here you have a blank canvas and on it you create a whole new thing that no one has ever done before. For no reason except you want to.
The forms, the colors, the ideas, the techniques...it will never be "dead" IMHO.
jo

By smashing

Hi Smashing!

By avzorea

Super, lovely, great......
Let's Looook at what you could'a won......

A beautiful Spring Blossom Painting.
What better image to start your day?

http://www.thelensflare.com/large/artpaintingsspringblossoms_21328.jpg

or:
http://www.thelensflare.com/large/artpaintings
springblossoms_21328.jpg


Imagine the fruit and veg jumping with celebration in this pic......

http://www.pre-kpages.com/images/grdnwtrclr.jpg

Paintings dead alright. Coloured pencils are height of fashion.

By Bruce SPRINGBOARD

...and hi there, Jimmyx10! I hope all is well with you.
Linda

By PNWArtist

who cares if painting is dead? you can't take the bast.ard stuff with you.

All mine will be placed in the hole with me, mine will be dead thank fuck, like I'd leave it to get wank.ed over by some Russian or Iraqy.

By hilton

Painting is dormant, like the sleeping beauty waiting for her prince to kiss her awake.

By cautivatrix

kill Saatchi and painting will be resurrected, just like Jesus..

By elpida

Spoken like a true christian....nice!

By prannock

then kill Jesus

By elpida

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By elpida

painting is not dead it smells just funny....;)))

By Branka

I do not think that painting is dead, more like slight decay,what seems to have died is that brilliant spark of genuine originality, something that speaks to you when your eyes first meet the image that is before you.

Take (Where dreams go to die),it shouts to you look at me, look at me it is an image where you can get lost in your own depair, where once you have trod, it has that in-built genius that holds you for at least 10 seconds where for that time you have drowned,seen the future met the past and ordered a curry, only to be told that they have run out of vindaloo, still for that momment it took your soul repaired it and sold it back to you, that to me is the essence of a good painting. !!!

By santana

yep! but at least that pitiful ad thing seems to have gone away...and, by the way, I just happened on to an artist whose art took my breath away.
painting is not dead.

By smashing

I just happened on an artist also, Smashing, and that's why I'm still looking for something to believe in!
Still, this place at least gives you an insight into what not to believe in. I, of course, always tell the truth.

Paintings not dead - It's getting sucked out of a computer.

By Mr Big Face

yep biggie,i know what you mean...trouble is i sometimes think that I may be being sucked in, as i sit here staring at yet another screen...turns out, i love it.

By smashing

Thank you shumush - your art has transported me back to school and conjured up the 6th form lounge at my school with its psychodelic swirly patterned murial in gut wrenching gravy colours.

By jimmmyx10

what is painting?WHAT IS PAINTING.tell me dammit,i am from SATURN,painting is life and painting is death-how often have i glanced,cursorily at a painting i done thinking-i have come to save art and also ,what a worthless piece of trash-i deserve to die for perpetrating suchlike crimes against painting,all painters are gods,all paintings are the despair of life,DESPAIR,I tellyou.painting is being strangled by the fascism of clever words,the trees of the mind are cold,Black and planetary and the roots of this tree are ruthless killing tentacles.give me vindaloo,or give me painterly selfconflagration,what is painting?

By Tamasrok

Yes shoshmusH a portal - thats a very good word for your pictures. They represent that point where too much beer, cider, vodka, etc has been drunk, the roon starts to auto-gyrate and you know you gotta hurl before you lie down and pass out. Portal, yes they are a portal!

By jimmmyx10

Painting is very much alive. Are people dead?

By AulukDan

elpida?
are you the artist who is doing the shakespeare thing?
if so...i Love your work...its great.
and if its not you, oh well,cheers to you too.

By smashing

gee, thank you smash! very kind of you..

Exhibition coming down next week. In fact, there has been some controversy, two of my paintings (Lady M and Malvolio frm 12th night) were taken down by the Institute Of Psychiatry, for reasons of- wait for it- 'decency in the workplace'..
Check out the unmentionables

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//6267.html

Perhaps a good time to start new topic bout censorship in art today?!..tell the truth, i wouldn't mind but the work is not censorship material..

Jokes bout psycho drivel welcome

E

By elpida

whoa!! the Institute of Psychiatry...are they mad?!

I think your work is brilliant on many levels. i just wish i could have seen it in the flesh,as it were. Your work is one of the reasons painting is not dead.

I think there has been some discussion of censorship on this site but,as you say,it's maybe time to start it again.

My opinion is, NONE for art. There can be No Rules for art. That's the whole point of it.
Your fan.

By smashing

"kill Saatchi and painting will be resurrected, just like Jesus.."

saatchi is actually making sure that painting is still out there. he's very traditional in that sense. very.

as far as the health state of the painting is considered you only need to visit a place like tate modern for example. what do you see there? paintings? mostly, yes.

of coruse there is a big fuss about new mediums and all that. it's part of the progress but the value and relevance of something doesn't change over the night. it doesn't even change over 10 years or a lifetime. why I mentioned tate modern is that these places are not just galleries or museums or whatever. they are references. and as long as you will see paintings hanging on the wall of these kind of places then painting will be pretty much alive. it's not about how many people still paint or not but about a status of a painting. and there is no form of an artwork out there as of now which would have a higher value of a painting.

but of course as an artistic concept painting is worth nothing.

damien hirst
www.nothingthing.com

By damienhirst

Damien, how on earth can you make such a statement.

For example, take your very own 'for the love of God' 50 million and rising, especially with the price of diamonds and platinum continually rising, a fine investment, and equal to the 50 million Titian just saved for the nation.

By Loki_johhn

loki_john,

yes. as I said. that's progress. but you need to see the whole picture. it's like you know. some people still want cloning to become reality. and they do that. and are ready to put a lot of money in it. but it still doesn't have the global recognition. that will happen when in medical schools they will teach you how to clone. that's what I was saying.

it's not about what is in right now. not about what sells. it's about what is accepted as a point of reference.

you take a painting and you have plenty you can refer to when trying to make sense of it. take a diamond skull and tell me with what are you going to defend it? surely not with the painting of mona lisa.

damien
nothingthing.com

By damienhirst

True, Damien, they did only show a little of the Titian. I will wait until it is installed in the National Gallery, and take a look at the 'whole picture' !

By Loki_johhn

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