Quote from: drunkenshoe on Today at 12:12:27 PMHe is amazing. And they treated him as if he had the plague. Well, he died young, but then it is not like he'd be taken seriously if he didn't.

Potato Eaters is my favourite painting. And I don't even necessarily like paintings.

I thought that was a leper colony.

Quote from: Hydra009 on Today at 08:19:10 PMIt's an American Werewolf in London :P

I like that movie.

Quote from: Unbeliever on Today at 08:16:29 PMHow can werewolves be "native to London" if they are "originally from America"?

It's an American Werewolf in London :P

How can werewolves be "native to London" if they are "originally from America"?

European:
Dragons (strong start, admittedly)
Griffins
Werewolves (reportedly native to London, albeit originally from America)
Loch Ness monster
Changelings (much scarier than you think)
Fairies
Gnomes
Selkies
The Portuguese

North American:
Bigfoot/Sasquash
Wendigo (not the same thing as above)
El Chupacabra
Mothman (real)
Jersey Devil
Slenderman
Satan
Sewer gators and/or monstrous gators
Lava bear / Cocaine bear
Florida Man

Yeah, I guess I gotta take the bad with the good.  Definitely familiar with that as a scifi fan.

Around here in NC, we don't so much have utterly bad art as just painfully mediocre art.  But at least we have the stargate rings:



"Chevron 7, locked"

Quote from: Hydra009 on Today at 02:38:43 PMI see your point (descriptive VS prescriptive), but there actually is a person who decides what is and isn't art - the person who decides what can and can't be on display at the art museum.  Same for music and comedy and basically everything else - there are boundaries, fuzzy and subjective (or inter-subjective) as they can be.

Yeah, but mostly about the commercial value, no? Without someone like Warhol, it would be much much worse. Without Warhol we wouldn't have memes, would we? He would LOVE it by the way, lol.

I like that you are interested in history of art. I have bad news though. As an art historian, I think 95% of art history is bullshit, while the 5% is crucial for humanity. Most of the at historians would tell you that 'but, how that's important'. It's not. However, unfortunately you need to swim through that 95% bullshit I'm afraid. And you should. (I promise you, you'll have so much fun.) And that's the reason why I'm writing all these. I want you -and everybody else- to o lay back and enjoy their species. You know..."these are Pyramids, that's Mico's pieta...that's blah blah and that's the fucking soup cans...". Because that's what we are. :D

I see your point (descriptive VS prescriptive), but there actually is a person who decides what is and isn't art - the person who decides what can and can't be on display at the art museum.  Same for music and comedy and basically everything else - there are boundaries, fuzzy and subjective (or inter-subjective) as they can be.