Art o' Not – You're the Critic!

an artist is you! or at least that seems to be the general consensus these days…

Inspired by all of the wannabe artists we’ve been discussing on the blog so far, I’ve decided to give this “creativity” thing a try myself, and here are the fruits of today’s labor. It’s amazing what you can accomplish on the tennis court, and I’m not just talking about serving some aces. With a few bum balls, nets, fences, and rackets as my tools, I am beginning my artistic career as a tennis ball sculptor!

I swear, some poor, hopeless, good for nothing (else) art student will look at this blog, get “inspired” and glue together a giant tennis ball sculpture, made from like a million balls. Then, some art “critic” will give it a raving review, and viola, you have yourself a new alternative arts movement… Thus, some bored idiot could change the course of art history, a little…

SO WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK? AM I AN ARTIST YET???

This one reminds me of a frog:

This is a spaceship:

A secret message hides in the fence, can you guess what it is???!!!

Tennis Ball Sculpture, No glue required!

My tennis ball artistry probably has Michelangelo spinning in his grave… but then again, so does most modern painting, architecture, and sculpture.

Ok, I’m done here for now.

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Ginou Choueiri’s potato portraiture has been mentioned on several art blogs already, but we thought we’d cover it here as well since the topic fits so well within our alternative arts theme. The artist’s justification for defacing (pun intended) the vegetables is as follows:

I chose the potato to portray the human face due to it’s many striking parallels.  Not only is their skin porous like ours but they also come in different colors, shapes and sizes.  Potato heads grow, sprout, age, then decay… but they refuse to go without a trace.

But what does our reader think? Is this art, or not?

via Ginou Choueiri

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To me, this is yet another sign that the artists of our age are running all out of ideas. But, there ARE many vacant spaces in the various museums that need to be filled somehow…

“simple and mundane materials as works of art”

O’RLY! Anyone else out there think that this is some sort of a trap/trick/prank/scam?

srsly… are these guys for REAL? What? Got your OWN opinion?

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We’ve got some more artonot to discuss today. What do ya’ll think of this guy’s work? He uses mirrors in various climates and geographical locations to demonstrate something I can’t quite grasp… But are his little setups truly artistic? He also uses colored sticks to create some weird illusions in various landscapes, and those things really freak me out!

via English Russia

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I saw this on 4chan a few minutes ago and, honestly, it made me lol. Perhaps a future post about ART SCHOOL and all the reasons NOT to go there is in order

!!! ^^^ AWESOME ^^^ !!!

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Walk down the right back alley in Ann Arbor, and you WILL shit brix!

Been living in this college town for the past 4 years, and now that school is out and there are no classes to worry about, I am beginning to realize that I may have missed out on seeing the best of this tiny town during my time here. The real local bars and eateries that college kids rarely hear of, much less wander into, the best kept secrets in underground music venues, and of course, the graffiti. Just a few hours ago, on my way to the train station, I wandered down an alleyway I must have passed by dozens of times while a student. Yet the thought of exploring this tiny little enclave never crossed my mind before. Well, today I did it, and below are some of the products of my breathtaking detour.

Would you like to share some cool art (or not) from your college town or perhaps your hometown?

Drop us a line at admin-at-artonot-dot-com

Thanks!

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If you want to view and enjoy some REAL artwork (as opposed to what we talk about on this site), here is Artonot’s first TOP 10 list of the world’s best museums. These are listed in no particular order. I’ve simply chosen the ten I think are most worthy of a visit. If there are some other phenomenal art destinations that are missing from our list, let us know so we can publish another top list later.

1. Louvre, Paris

2. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

3. Prado, Madrid

4. Hermitage, St. Petersburg

5. Vatican Museums, Rome

6. Art Institute of Chicago

7. LACMA, LA

8. Tate Art Gallery, London

9. Philadelphia Museum of Art

10. Guggenheim

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After museum curators and other art connoisseurs accept a two year old’s paint doodles for a genuine artistic effort, many true “artists” should probably call it quits in their profession, or at least so I would imagine. Basically, I’m appalled. This also proves once again that abstract expressionism is nothing but the biggest scam in the history of art. I am all for boosting some kids’ self esteem, but to allocate museum space for supposed masterpieces of a two year old is taking it a bit TOO far, in my opinion. Or am I way off base here?

I especially love the first response in the reader comments section, which goes like this: “Just proves that art curators have no idea!”

Read the entire article at The Vine, if you can stomach it

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Looks like the latest fad on the streets of Brazil is to try and decorate storm drains on sidewalks to make them look more comely. As we often do here at Artonot, we must ask, is this an example of true artistic expression, or just more wannabe artists having too much time on their hands? What do you think? Best thing to come out of Brazil since Cidade de Deus and Ronaldinho, or not quite?

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