I was just looking through the blog when I found this. Don't know if it's been posted or not but ryan davis is buying stuff at 2:56
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/23621548?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/23621548">Olly Moss Art Show @ Gallery 1988</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/threadless">Threadless.com</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
That's disgusting. People are clamoring for silhouette paintings? What the fuck is wrong with people today. Guys if you want any one of these I will happily make you one for $10 a pop.
That's disgusting. People are clamoring for silhouette paintings? What the fuck is wrong with people today. Guys if you want any one of these I will happily make you one for $10 a pop.
That's disgusting. People are clamoring for silhouette paintings? What the fuck is wrong with people today. Guys if you want any one of these I will happily make you one for $10 a pop.
Maybe I don't understand art. A guy made hundreds of silhouette's of people and that's considered mind blowing? I have Photoshop, I can make a silhouette. I guess that makes me an artist? Why does nobody buy my dinosaur drawings? D:
That's disgusting. People are clamoring for silhouette paintings? What the fuck is wrong with people today. Guys if you want any one of these I will happily make you one for $10 a pop.
To be fair, some of his work is great bordering on genius. Most of it is just as you say though.
@DeeGee: the thing about art isn't how technically accomplished it is, or how complicated it but its originality and power of expression (intellectual, emotional or otherwise)
As you said, it's really easy to replicate art; anyone with some black paper and scissors can do what Moss does. It is however incredibly difficult to create something new, or portray an existing thing in a new meaningful way, and that is why Moss' work is so expensive.
Take the example of Space Invaders or Pong; people who say that is art aren't saying it because they are complicated games. You and I could probably make a decent clone of either without much difficulty. They are saying these games are artistically valuable because they represent a new vision of concept that has its own rules and aesthetic. In a similar way Moss' work has its own rules and aesthetics, and that can be what makes it valuable as art.
Whilst you and i would probably agree art is subjective; that doesn't mean it is trivial. It's easy to copy an idea, but way trickier to bring one of your own original ones to fruition and harder still to have that idea mean a lot to a lot of different people.
TLDNR: It's not that you couldn't to what Moss did; it's that he did it first
Maybe I don't understand art. A guy made hundreds of silhouette's of people and that's considered mind blowing? I have Photoshop, I can make a silhouette. I guess that makes me an artist? Why does nobody buy my dinosaur drawings? D:
Welcome to the world of art. You can literally slap some shit on a canvas and call it expressionism or some shit like that and sell it for a lot of money (as long as you're dead first).
Here's my art. It's a dinosaur. He's crying because he's sad by all the racism in the world, man, like, slavery is so like, lame, man.The bidding starts at $500!
Here's mine, I call it Albino naked man in a snow storm, notice the clear struggle on his face that symbolizes the lack of sanitation standards on Botswana. That'll be $2.000,00, thanks.
Olly Moss is awesome and you should all be ashamed of yourselves. Have you ever visited his website, or seen the posters he's done for Robert Ashley's A Life Well Wasted? He doesn't just do silhouettes.
Maybe I don't understand art. A guy made hundreds of silhouette's of people and that's considered mind blowing? I have Photoshop, I can make a silhouette. I guess that makes me an artist? Why does nobody buy my dinosaur drawings? D:
That's disgusting. People are clamoring for silhouette paintings? What the fuck is wrong with people today. Guys if you want any one of these I will happily make you one for $10 a pop.
I think you are kinda missing the point here. The exhibition works as a whole. The pieces individually only have meaning because they were part of that exhibition. It's the same difference between buying an album at a shop and seeing the band play live.
I actually like his concept and I can totally understand why this is a big thing. The thing is not the execution but in itsef but the whole idea for the thing. When you think of it it's quite crazy.
I also smiled when I realized that this man are behind some really really awesome T-shirts on Thredless.
Oh, and BTW! I found this on his blog. Seems like Ryan was standing in front of the que. Wonder how long ha had to wait?
That's disgusting. People are clamoring for silhouette paintings? What the fuck is wrong with people today. Guys if you want any one of these I will happily make you one for $10 a pop.
I think you are kinda missing the point here. The exhibition works as a whole. The pieces individually only have meaning because they were part of that exhibition. It's the same difference between buying an album at a shop and seeing the band play live.
I was trying to figure out how to address that dude, but you've made a very good point, Sweep.
In additon to the other good defenses of this art I've seen posted in the thread, I'll add this. The art buying community doesn't tend to let complete outsiders just jump in and sell trash as art for scads of dough. Bob Ebendorf literally uses trash to make jewelry but make no mistake he's a master silversmith. Marchel Duchamp pretty much invented the idea when he used a urinal as an installation. But he was well estabilshed by then.
Some of these were pretty humorous, and I like the exhibit as a whole. Granted, I probably wouldn't rush in to purchase anything. It's still nice to just look a-Oh my goodness.
Maybe I don't understand art. A guy made hundreds of silhouette's of people and that's considered mind blowing? I have Photoshop, I can make a silhouette. I guess that makes me an artist? Why does nobody buy my dinosaur drawings? D:
You do dinosaur drawings?! How much will you sell me one for?!
I was watching this earlier while on skype, and my friend asked what I was watching. My other friend suggested it was Whiskey Media related, as it's all I ever really watch. I said he was wrong, and then Ryan was on the screen about 45 seconds later v.v
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