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Innovation and architecture
I often notice that "innovative" designs travel in packs. As a followup to Fred Kent's Gel video, consider this "eyesore of the month," as posted by Jim Kunstler:
Jim writes, "the lesson here is that the most 'innovative' buildings all express exactly the same design innovations. So many geniuses with the same exact thoughts!" Link
In the world of art, it is beautiful if someone with money says it is.
For example, when Jackson Pollack first introduced his work, it was judged to be what it was, the work of a terribly troubled person drinking in his garage.
But, the New York galleries found a few sponsors of Pollack, and then, suddenly he was a genius. Same with Any Warhol.
This building is no uglier than, say, a cubist painting, and it will be judged a glorious or not by the "experts."
But, I agree, in the 20th and 21st centuries we have lost all perspective in terms of what was inspiring, what is beautiful. What is worthy of the designation art. Our tastes were/are dictated to by where the money went/goes. It was/is a shame. Who could not have loved the Water Lilies of the 19th century. But, then we found chaos and adopted it.
So much for the arts. I especially love it when worms are thrown on canvas in the name of portraiture. Now that tells me a whole lot about what the artistic sensibility has become.
that's incredible.
It looks like the future 3000 like futurama. but if they build it, i want to see some original pictures and i want also to visited by myself!
They obviously did not consult the window washers.
I offer this haiku I wrote for another occasion:
"What is art, you ask,
In all its forms and splendor?
Mind made visible."
Someone else said,
"By their works shall ye know them."
A culture gets the art it deserves. Those who would change a culture, for ill or good, can do so from within through the arts and entertainments they support. It's a eugenics of thought.
Kudos to GEL for its accent on Good.